Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

by Simon Baron-Cohen (Editor), Helen Tager-Flusberg (Editor), Donald J. Cohen (Editor)

Like the first edition, this completely updated and revised text still focuses on the "theory of mind" hypothesis--an important new psychological approach to autism-- and provides an invaluable discussion about the nature of what is widely recognized as the most severe childhood psychological
disorder. But it provides expanded coverage of evolution and new sections on infancy, neurobiology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Genres: Psychology, Science, Nonfiction, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Mental Health, Autistic Spectrum Disorder

530 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Simon Baron-Cohen FBA is Professor of Developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He is the Director of the University's Autism Research Centre, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has worked on autism, including the theory that autism involves degrees of mind-blindness (or delays in the development of theory of mind) and his later theory that autism is an extreme form of what he calls the "male brain", which involved a re-conceptualisation of typical psychological sex differences in terms of empathising-systemising theory.