Domain specificity in conceptual development: Neuropsychological evidence from autism☆,☆☆
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Parts of this work were presented in talks by the first author to the VIIth European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, January 1990, to the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, June 1990, and to the Conference on Cultural Knowledge and Domain Specificity, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1990. Our thanks to Daniel Roth, Simon Baron-Cohen, John Morton and Uta Frith for comments on an earlier draft, and to Jon Bartrip for help with data analysis. We are also grateful to the children and staff of Doucecroft School, Harborough School and Whitefield School for their assistance in these studies.
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Editor: This article should have appeared in Cognition volume 40, number 3, together with the article by Leekam & Perner entitled “Does the autistic child have a metarepresentational deficit?”. Unfortunately, an administrative error made this impossible and delayed the appearance of the present article. We apologize for this mistake.