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Development and Brain Systems in Autism
Contributor(s): Just, Marcel Adam (Editor), Pelphrey, Kevin A. (Editor)
ISBN: 1848728662     ISBN-13: 9781848728660
Publisher: Psychology Press
OUR PRICE:   $180.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Developmental - Child
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Medical | Pediatrics
Dewey: 618.928
Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 266 pages
 
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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.
  • Integrating information about genes, brain, and biological mechanisms with behavioral evidence.
  • Linking the science of autism with lives lived: how the new information about autism impacts people with autism and real-world considerations.