Autism: Mind and Brain

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 0198529236, 0198529244......Page 5
Contents (with page links)......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1. Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain......Page 22
2. A retrospective analysis of the clinical case records of ‘autistic psychopaths’ diagnosed by Hans Asperger and his team at the University Children’s Hospital, Vienna......Page 42
3. Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism......Page 64
4. Why is joint attention a pivotal skill in autism?......Page 88
5. Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?......Page 110
6. The pathogenesis of autism: insights from congenital blindness......Page 130
7. The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism......Page 148
8. The systemizing quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism, and normal sex differences......Page 182
9. Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception......Page 208
10. Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder......Page 232
11. Autism and movement disturbance......Page 246
12. Investigating individual differences in brain abnormalities in autism......Page 268
13. The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism......Page 288
D......Page 316
L......Page 317
S......Page 318
W......Page 319
Plate Section......Page 320