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Titolo: | Development and brain systems in autism / / edited by Marcel Adam Just and Kevin A. Pelphrey |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.85882 |
Soggetto topico: | Autism |
Developmental psychology | |
Altri autori: | JustMarcel Adam PelphreyKevin Archer |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Development and brain systems in autism |
ISBN: | 1-135-10312-7 |
0-203-07335-5 | |
1-299-27958-9 | |
1-135-10313-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825210203321 |
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