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    Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind.Simon Baron-Cohen - 1997 - MIT Press.
    In Mindblindness, Simon Baron-Cohen presents a model of the evolution and development of "mindreading." He argues that we mindread all the time, effortlessly, automatically, and mostly unconsciously. It is the natural way in which we interpret, predict, and participate in social behavior and communication. We ascribe mental states to people: states such as thoughts, desires, knowledge, and intentions. Building on many years of research, Baron-Cohen concludes that children with autism, suffer from "mindblindness" as a result of a selective impairment in (...)
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  2. Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind”?Simon Baron-Cohen, Alan M. Leslie & Uta Frith - 1985 - Cognition 21 (1):37-46.
    We use a new model of metarepresentational development to predict a cognitive deficit which could explain a crucial component of the social impairment in childhood autism. One of the manifestations of a basic metarepresentational capacity is a ‘ theory of mind ’. We have reason to believe that autistic children lack such a ‘ theory ’. If this were so, then they would be unable to impute beliefs to others and to predict their behaviour. This hypothesis was tested using Wimmer (...)
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    Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives From Autism.Simon Baron-Cohen, Helen Tager-Flusberg & Donald J. Cohen - 1993 - Oxford University Press.
    An examination of the controversial "theory of mind" hypothesis, which states that children with autism are unable to comprehend other people's mental states. The theory relates to the most fundamental questions of normal development as well as to autism i.
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    Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.Simon Baron-Cohen, Helen Tager-Flusberg & Donald J. Cohen - 2000 - Oxford University Press USA.
    Why do children with autism have such trouble developing normal social understanding of other people's feelings? This new edition updates the field by linking autism research to the newest methods for studying the brain.
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    Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives From Developmental Social Neuroscience.Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Lombardo & Helen Tager-Flusberg (eds.) - 2013 - Oxford University Press.
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    Talent in autism: Hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hyper-sensitivity.Simon Baron-Cohen, Emma Ashwin, Chris Ashwin, Teresa Tavassoli & Bhismadev Chakrabarti - 2010 - In Francesca Happé & Uta Frith (eds.), Autism and Talent. Oup/the Royal Society.
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    Culture–Sex Interaction and the Self-Report Empathy in Australians and Mainland Chinese.Qing Zhao, David L. Neumann, Yuan Cao, Simon Baron-Cohen, Chao Yan, Raymond C. K. Chan & David H. K. Shum - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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    A test of central coherence theory: linguistic processing in high-functioning adults with autism or Asperger syndrome: is local coherence impaired?Therese Jolliffe & Simon Baron-Cohen - 1999 - Cognition 71 (2):149-185.
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    The role of the self in mindblindness in autism.Michael V. Lombardo & Simon Baron-Cohen - 2011 - Consciousness and Cognition 20 (1):130-140.
    Since its inception the ‘mindblindness’ theory of autism has greatly furthered our understanding of the core social-communication impairments in autism spectrum conditions . However, one of the more subtle issues within the theory that needs to be elaborated is the role of the ‘self’. In this article, we expand on mindblindness in ASC by addressing topics related to the self and its central role in the social world and then review recent research in ASC that has yielded important insights by (...)
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    Reading the Eyes: Evidence for the Role of Perception in the Development of a Theory of Mind.Simon Baron-Cohen & Pippa Cross - 1992 - Mind and Language 7 (1-2):172-186.
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    Do children with autism recognise surprise? A research note.Simon Baron-Cohen, Amy Spitz & Pippa Cross - 1993 - Cognition and Emotion 7 (6):507-516.
    We take a fresh look at emotion recognition in autistic children, by testing their recognition of three different emotions (happy, sad, and surprise). The interest in selecting these is that whereas the first two are typical “simple” emotions (caused by situations), the third is typically a “cognitive” emotion (caused by beliefs). Because subjects with autism have clear difficulties in understanding beliefs, we predicted they would show more difficulty in recognising surprise. In contrast, as they have no difficulty in understanding situations (...)
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    Understanding the genetics of empathy and the autistic spectrum.Bhismadev Chakrabarti & Simon Baron-Cohen - 2013 - In Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Lombardo & Helen Tager-Flusberg (eds.), Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives From Developmental Social Neuroscience. Oxford University Press. pp. 326.
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  13. Autism–'autos': Literally, a total focus on the self.Simon Baron-Cohen - 2005 - In Todd E. Feinberg & Julian Paul Keenan (eds.), The Lost Self:Pathologies of the Brain and Identity: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity. Oxford University Press. pp. 166--180.
     
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    Mathematical Talent is Linked to Autism.Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Amy Burtenshaw & Esther Hobson - 2007 - Human Nature 18 (2):125-131.
    A total of 378 mathematics undergraduates (selected for being strong at “systemizing”) and 414 students in other (control) disciplines at Cambridge University were surveyed with two questions: (1) Do you have a diagnosed autism spectrum condition? (2) How many relatives in your immediate family have a diagnosed autism spectrum condition? Results showed seven cases of autism in the math group (or 1.85%) vs one case of autism in the control group (or 0.24%), a ninefold difference that is significant. Controlling for (...)
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    10 The relationship between SAM and ToMM: two hypotheses.Simon Baron-Cohen & John Swettenham - 1996 - In Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith (eds.), Theories of Theories of Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 158.
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    Reduced Volume of the Arcuate Fasciculus in Adults with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions.Rachel L. Moseley, Marta M. Correia, Simon Baron-Cohen, Yury Shtyrov, Friedemann Pulvermüller & Bettina Mohr - 2016 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.
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    Implications of synaesthesia for functionalism: Theory and experiments.Joe Gray, Susan Chopping, Julia Nunn, David Parslow, Lloyd Gregory, Steve Williams, Michael J. Brammer & Simon Baron-Cohen - 2002 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (12):5-31.
    Functionalism offers an account of the relations that hold between behavioural functions, information and neural processing, and conscious experience from which one can draw two inferences: for any discriminable difference between qualia there must be an equivalent discriminable difference in function; and for any discriminable functional difference within a behavioural domain associated with qualia, there must be a discriminable difference between qualia. The phenomenon of coloured hearing synaesthesia appears to contradict the second of these inferences. We report data showing that (...)
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    Without a theory of mind one cannot participate in a conversation.Simon Baron-Cohen - 1988 - Cognition 29 (1):83-84.
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    The exact mind: Empathising and systemising in autism spectrum conditions.Simon Baron-Cohen, John Lawson, Rick Griffin & Jacqueline Hill - unknown
    Cognitive developmentalists have had a long-standing interest in neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism. This is not only out of a desire to understand the causes of such atypical development, in order to advance medical science and develop interventions. It is also because studying the processes that cause atypicality can sometimes throw light on typical development. It is this two-way influence that characterises the field of developmental psychopathology. In this chapter, we focus on autism. We bring out this interaction between what (...)
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  20. Can studies of autism teach us about consciousness of the physical and the mental?Simon Baron-Cohen - 1999 - Philosophical Explorations 2 (3):175-188.
    Most scientists and theorists concerned with the problem of consciousness focus on our consciousness of the physical world (our sensations, feelings, and awareness). In this paper I consider our consciousness of the mental world (our thoughts about thoughts, intentions, wishes, and emotions).The argument is made that these are two distinct forms of consciousness, the evidence for this deriving from studies of autism. Autism is a severe childhood psychiatric condition in which individuals may be conscious of the physical world but not (...)
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  21. Savant memory in a man with colour form-number synaesthesia and asperger.Simon Baron-Cohen, D. Bor, J. Billington, J. Asher, S. Wheelwright & C. Ashwin - 2007 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (9-10):237-251.
    Extreme conditions like savantism, autism or synaesthesia, which have a neurological 2AH, UK basis, challenge the idea that other minds are similar to our own. In this paper we report a single case study of a man in whom all three of these conditions co-occur. We suggest, on the basis of this single case, that when savantism and synaesthesia co- occur, it is worthwhile testing for an undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC). This is because savantism has an established association with (...)
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    Are children with autism acultural?Simon Baron-Cohen - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3):512-513.
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    How monkeys do things with “words”.Simon Baron-Cohen - 1992 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (1):148-149.
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    The concept of intentionality: Invented or innate?Simon Baron-Cohen - 1993 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (1):29-30.
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    Prenatal and postnatal testosterone effects on human social and.Bonnie Auyeung & Simon Baron-Cohen - 2013 - In Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Lombardo & Helen Tager-Flusberg (eds.), Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives From Developmental Social Neuroscience. Oxford University Press. pp. 308.
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    "Autism Autos": Literally.Simon Baron-Cohen - 2005 - In Todd E. Feinberg & Julian Paul Keenan (eds.), The Lost Self:Pathologies of the Brain and Identity: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity. Oxford University Press.
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    Autism, empathizing-systemizing (es) theory, and pathological altruism.Simon Baron-Cohen - 2011 - In Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan & David Sloan Wilson (eds.), Pathological Altruism. Oxford University Press. pp. 345.
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    Can children with autism integrate first and third person representations?Simon Baron-Cohen - 1996 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (1):123-124.
    Barresi & Moore contrast two theories of autism: (1) in autism there is a general inability to integrate first and third person information (of any kind), and (2) in autism there is a specific inability to represent an agent's perceptual or volitional mental state being about another agents mental state. Two lines of experimental evidence suggest that the first of these is too broad, favoring instead the more specific “theory of mind” account.
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  29. Consciousness of the physical and the mental: Evidence from autism.Simon Baron-Cohen - 2001 - In Peter G. Grossenbacher (ed.), Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A Neurocognitive Approach. Advances in Consciousness Research. John Benjamins. pp. 61-76.
     
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    Superiority on the embedded figures test in autism and in normal males: Evidence of an “innate talent”?Simon Baron-Cohen - 1998 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (3):408-409.
    Howe et al. suggest that most talents can be explained in terms of practice and other environmental effects, and only exceptionally by innate factors. This commentary provides an illustration of one such exception: performance on the Embedded Figures Test by people with autism and their relatives.
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  31. The evolution of empathizing and systematizing: assortative mating of two strong systematizers and the cause of autism.Simon Baron-Cohen - 2009 - In Robin Dunbar & Louise Barrett (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Oxford University Press.
     
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    Can the shared circuits model (SCM) explain joint attention or perception of discrete emotions?Bhismadev Chakrabarti & Simon Baron-Cohen - 2008 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (1):24-25.
    The shared circuits model (SCM) is a bold attempt to explain how humans make sense of action, at different levels. In this commentary we single out five concerns: (1) the lack of a developmental account, (2) the absence of double-dissociation evidence, (3) the neglect of joint attention and joint action, (4) the inability to explain discrete emotion perception, and (5) the lack of predictive power or testability of the model. We conclude that Hurley's model requires further work before it could (...)
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    Eye movements reveal a dissociation between memory encoding and retrieval in adults with autism.Rose A. Cooper, Kate C. Plaisted-Grant, Simon Baron-Cohen & Jon S. Simons - 2017 - Cognition 159 (C):127-138.
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    Teaching children with autism to mind-read: the workbook. 2Rev Ed edition.Patricia Howlin, Simon Baron-Cohen & Julie A. Hadwin - unknown
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    The prevalence of synesthesia.Donielle Johnson, Carrie Allison & Simon Baron-Cohen - 2013 - In Julia Simner & Edward M. Hubbard (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia. Oxford University Press. pp. 1.
    We begin this chapter with a review of the history of synaesthesia and a comparison of what we consider to be either genuine or inauthentic manifestations of the phenomenon. Next, we describe the creation and development of synaesthetic consistency tests and explore reasons why assessing consistency became the most widely used method of confirming the genuineness of synaesthesia. We then consider methodologies that demonstrate synaesthesia's authenticity by capitalizing on properties other than consistency. Finally, we discuss how together, consistency tests and (...)
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