Autism: mind and brain provides an overview of research on autism and highlights techniques that will progress future understanding. With contributions from leaders in autism research, the book describes advances, discusses ways forward for future research, and presents techniques for understanding this disorder.

The application of these new and sophisticated approaches forge a path forward for future autism research, and present powerful new insights into this fascinating and still puzzling disorder.

Introduction
1. Understanding autism: insights from mind and brain
2. A retrospective analysis of the clinical case records of 'autistic psychopaths' diagnosed by Hans Asperger and his team at the University Children's Hospital, Vienna
3. Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism
4. Why is joint attention a pivotal skill in autism?
5. Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?
6. The pathogenesis of autism: insights from congenital blindness
7. The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism
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The systemizing quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism and normal sex differences
9. Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception
10. Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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Autism and movement disturbance
12. Investigating individual differences in brain abnormalities in autism
13. The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism