Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition, and little is known about its
neurobiology. Much of autism research has focused on the social, communication and …

There is little comprehensive research into autistic adulthood, and even less into the
services and supports that are most likely to foster flourishing adult autistic lives. This limited …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

Progress in psychological science can be limited by a number of factors, not least of which
are the starting assumptions of scientists themselves. We believe that some influential …

One paradox of autism is the co-occurrence of deficits in sensory and higher-order socio-
cognitive processing. Here, we examined whether these phenotypical patterns may relate to …

Altered sensory processing has been an important feature of the clinical descriptions of
autism spectrum disorder (ASD). There is evidence that sensory dysregulation arises early …

What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect
now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless …

There have been numerous attempts to explain the enigma of autism, but existing
neurocognitive theories often provide merely a refined description of 1 cluster of symptoms …

A rich collection of empirical findings accumulated over the past three decades attests to the
diversity of traits that constitute the autism phenotypes. It is unclear whether subsets of these …