Since its initial description, the concept of autism has been firmly rooted within the
conventional medical paradigm of child psychiatry. Increasingly, there have been calls from …

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, and little is known about its
neurobiology. Much of autism research has focused on the social, communication and …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Estimates suggest as much as 17% of the US workforce may be neuroatypical, a term used
to describe individuals whose neurological functioning is at the tail ends of the distribution of …

A rich collection of empirical findings accumulated over the past three decades attests to the
diversity of traits that constitute the autism phenotypes. It is unclear whether subsets of these …

Although sensory processing challenges have been noted since the first clinical descriptions
of autism, it has taken until the release of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical …

Perceptual experience is influenced both by incoming sensory information and prior
knowledge about the world, a concept recently formalised within Bayesian decision theory …

Autism spectrum disorder currently lacks an explanation that bridges cognitive,
computational, and neural domains. In the past 5 years, progress has been sought in this …

Behavior, perception and cognition are strongly shaped by the synthesis of information
across the different sensory modalities. Such multisensory integration often results in …