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Understanding the imitation deficit in autism may lead to a more specific model of autism as an empathy disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2003

Tony Charman
Tony Charman
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, United [email protected] http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/behav_brain_sci/b_b_s_unit.html
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Abstract

Preston & de Waal are understandably cautious in applying their model to autism. They emphasise multiple cognitive impairments in autism, including prefrontal-executive, cerebellar-attention, and amygdala-emotion recognition deficits. Further empirical examination of imitation ability in autism may reveal deficits in the neural and cognitive basis of perception-action mapping that have a specific relation to the empathic deficit.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 29 - 30
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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