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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969547703321

Titolo

Development and brain systems in autism / / edited by Marcel Adam Just and Kevin A. Pelphrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-10312-7

0-203-07335-5

1-299-27958-9

1-135-10313-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Carnegie Mellon symposia on cognition

Altri autori (Persone)

JustMarcel Adam

PelphreyKevin Archer

Disciplina

616.85882

Soggetti

Autism

Developmental psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Lives lived with autism -- section 2. Brain mechanisms and genetic influences -- section 3. Developmental processes in autism -- section 4. Neural systems in social and emotional processes -- section 5. Overview.

Sommario/riassunto

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.