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Autism: Mind and Brain
Edited by Uta Frith and Elisabeth Hill
320 pages
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numerous halftones and figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-852924-8
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Paperback
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15 January 2004
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- Presents an important overview of autism research in the 21st century
- Edited and written by the leaders in their fields
- Contains powerful new insights into this complex disorder
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that allows a unique window on the relationship between mind and brain. The study of autism provides insight into the brain basis of the complex social interactions typical of human beings, since a profound impairment in social interactions is the hallmark of autistic disorders. While autism was first described almost 60 years ago, research into its cognitive and neurophysiological basis has intensified over the last two decades.
Autism: Mind and Brain provides a comprehensive overview of currently conducted experiments, which are guided by bold theories that are being tested rigorously. With
contributions from international leaders in autism research, the book focuses on new ideas and findings that are gradually influencing our understanding of autism and its variants. These new approaches include the use of functional and structural brain imaging studies as well as novel behavioural measures. Together they demonstrate significant advances in knowledge and testify to the development and integration of current cognitive theories of autism. The application of these new and sophisticated approaches forge a path forward for future autism research, and present powerful new insights into this fascinating and still puzzling disorder.
Readership: Developmental psychologists and developmental
neuroscientists. Educational psychologists. Philosophers of mind
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Edited by Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, Institute of Cognitive Science, University College London, UK, and Elisabeth Hill, Lecturer in Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Contributors:
Jose Alcantara, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Depts of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
Dheraj Bisarya, Autism Research Centre, Depts of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
Martin Bishop, Developmental Psychopathology Research Unit,
University College London, UK
Rhonda Booth, SGDP Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Ruth Campbell, Dept of Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
Umberto Castiello, Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham. UK
Rebecca Charlton, SGDP Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Tony Charman, Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Mike Coleman, Dept of Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
Samantha Condie, Dept of Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
M de Haan, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Child Health, London,
UK
K J Friston, The Wellcome Dept of Imaging Neuroscience, Queen Square, London, UK
Uta Frith, Institute of Cognitive Science, University College London, UK
D G Gadian, Radiology and Physics Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
David J Grelotti, Yale Child Study Centre, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Nhishanth Gurunathan, Autism Research Centre, Depts of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
Francesca Happé, SGDP Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Elisabeth L Hill, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Kathrin Hippler, Abteilung fur Angewandte und Klinische Psychologie, Neues
Institutsgebaude, Vienna, Austria
R Peter Hobson, Developmental Psychopathology Research Unit, University College London, UK
Claire Hughes, SGDP Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Warren Jones, Yale Child Study Centre, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Robert M Joseph, Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
Jamie Kleinman, Dept of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA
Christian Klicpera, Abteilung fur Angewandte und Klinische Psychologie, Neues Institutsgebaude, Vienna, Austria
Ami Klin, Yale Child Study Centre, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Morena Mari, Dept of Psychology,
Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham. UK
Deborah Marks, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville VIC, Australia
Rene Marois, Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA
Catherine Marraffa, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville VIC, Australia
Elizabeth Milne, Dept of Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
Kate Plaisted, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Margot Prior, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville VIC, Australia
Jennifer Richler, Autism Research Centre, Depts of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
C H Salmond, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Child Health, London,
UK
Lisa Saksida, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Robert Schultz, Yale Child Study Centre, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Pawel Skudlarski, Dept of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
John Swettenham, Dept of Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
Helen Tager-Flusberg, Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
Christiaan van der Gaag, Academic Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Groningen, the Netherlands
F Vargha-Khadem, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Fred Volkmar, Yale Child Study
Centre, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, USA
Emma Weisblatt, Dept of Psychiatry, Developmental Psychiatry Section, University of Cambridge, UK
Sally Wheelwright, Autism Research Centre, Depts of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK
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"This book is a valuable collection of recent findings about autism and ASDs, and should definitely be within hands-reach of any serious researcher in the field. I recommend it for academic researchers, graduate students, clinicians and other professionals." - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18 "The aim of this book is to consolidate our knowledge of the characteristics and manifestations of autism, whilst introducing new techniques to further this field of research. This will be a valuable resource for both established and new researchers who wish to understand how we can take forth our knowledge of autism and apply innovative technologies in future research investigations." - The Psychologist
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Frith & Hill: Introduction
1: Hill & Frith: Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain
2: Hippler & Klicpera: 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
3: Tager-Flusberg & Joseph: Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism
4: Charman: Why is joint attention a pivotal skill in autism?
5: Swettenham, Condie, Campbell, Milne & Coleman: Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?
6: Hobson & Bishop: The pathogenesis of autism: insights from congenital blindness
7: Klin, Jones, Schultz & Volkmar: The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism
8: Baron-Cohen, Richler, Bisarya, Gurunathan & Wheelwright: The systemizing quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism and normal sex differences
9: Plaisted, Saksida, Alcantara & Weisblatt: Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception
10: Booth, Charlton, Hughes and Happé: Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
11: Mari, Marks, Marraffa, Prior & Castiello: Autism and movement disturbance
12: Salmond, de Haan, Friston, Gadian & Vargha-Khadem: Investigating individual differences in brain abnormalities in autism
13: Schultz, Grelotti, Klin, Kleinman, van der Gaag, Marois & Skudlarski: The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism
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