Simon Baron-Cohen
Another key person in Autism research, same as Framcesca Happe, Simon was the Phd student of Uta Frith in 1985, they collaborate to carry out many clinically psychology research.
Simon claimed that two key mental domains, verbal and spatial abilities in both sex differences have been studied, and he suggested that two neglected dimensions for understanding human sex differences are " emphathising" and " systemising". The male brain is a defined psychometrically as those individuals in whom systemising is significantly better than empathising, and the female brain is defined as the opposite cognitive profile. Base on these definitions, autism can be considered as an extreme of the normal male profile. There is increasing psychological evidence for the extreme male brain theory of autism.
Source: http://cogsci.bme.hu/~ivady/bscs/read/bc.pdf
Another key person in Autism research, same as Framcesca Happe, Simon was the Phd student of Uta Frith in 1985, they collaborate to carry out many clinically psychology research.
Simon claimed that two key mental domains, verbal and spatial abilities in both sex differences have been studied, and he suggested that two neglected dimensions for understanding human sex differences are " emphathising" and " systemising". The male brain is a defined psychometrically as those individuals in whom systemising is significantly better than empathising, and the female brain is defined as the opposite cognitive profile. Base on these definitions, autism can be considered as an extreme of the normal male profile. There is increasing psychological evidence for the extreme male brain theory of autism.
Source: http://cogsci.bme.hu/~ivady/bscs/read/bc.pdf
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