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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series |
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Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; SECTION I Lives Lived with Autism; 1 My Experience with Visual Thinking and Sensory Oversensitivity: The Need for Research on Sensory Problems; 2 Hans Asperger and His Patients; SECTION II Brain Mechanisms and Genetic Influences; 3 A Theory of Autism Based on Frontal-Posterior Underconnectivity; 4 Implicit Learning and Reward Systems Deficit in Autism: A Mechanism for Social Learning Deficit?; 5 Autism Susceptibility Genes and Normal Variation: Connecting Genes to Brain Structure and Function |
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SECTION III Developmental Processes in Autism6 What Do Early Signs Tell Us about the Developmental Roots of Autism?; 7 Social Engagement in the First Two Years of Life in Autism Spectrum Disorders; SECTION IV Neural Systems in Social and Emotional Processes; 8 Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception Dysfunction in Autism; 9 Neural Representations of Self versus Other: Lessons from Autism; 10 Brain Connectivity and Emotional Processing in Autism; SECTION V Overview; 11 Organizing Principles for Autism Research: Where Do We Go From Here?; Index |
| Summary |
This volume covers several perspectives on autism which bring together the most recent scientific views of the nature of this disorder. A number of themes organize major developments and emerging areas in autism:Cognitive and neural systems development: how autism arises in the behavior and thought of very young children. Discovering brain mechanisms underlying social and cognitive deficits in autism: how we can explain ""social awkwardness"" and poor language comprehension in terms of malfunctions of brain mechanisms, revealed by fMRI studies of people with autism |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Autism.
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Developmental psychology.
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Brain.
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Autistic Disorder
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Brain
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brains.
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Autism
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Brain
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Developmental psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pelphrey, Kevin A
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| ISBN |
9781135103132 |
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1135103135 |
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