Auteur : Just, Marcel Adam / Pelphrey, Kevin A.

Maison d'édition : Psychology Press

Date de publication : 2013

Collation : xiv, 248 p. : ill.

Collection : Carnegie Mellon symposia on cognition

ISBN : 9781848726406

Langue : Anglais

Table des matières : 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 sysceptibility genes and normal variation : connecting genes to brain structure and function
Section III : Developmental processes in autism
6. 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?

Résumé : 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.

Mots-clés : Autisme / Autisme infantile / Psychologie cognitive / Neuropsychologie

Cote : WM 203.5 J96d 2013