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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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-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 Happe: 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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