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Mindblindness : an essay on autism and theory of mind

Summary: Building on many years of research, Baron-Cohen concludes that children with autism, suffer from "mindblindness" as a result of a selective impairment in mindreading. For these children, the world is essentially devoid of mental things. Baron-Cohen develops a theory that draws on data from comparative psychology, from developmental, and from neuropsychology. He argues that specific neurocognitive mechanisms have evolved that allow us to mindread, to make sense of actions, to interpret gazes as meaningful, and to decode "the language of the eyes."

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ISBN: 9780262522250 (paperback)
Physical Description: xxii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : MIT Press, 1997.
Copyright: ©1995

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Mindblindness and mindreading -- Evolutionary psychology and social chess -- Mindreading : nature's choice -- Developing mindreading : the four steps -- Autism and mindblindness -- How brains read minds -- The language of the eyes -- Mindreading : back to the future.