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Development and Brain Systems in Autism.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.