Is there really a link between engineering and autism? A reply to Baron-Cohen et al., Autism, 1997, 1(1), 101-9

Autism

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-289

  Jarrold, Christopher ^a   Routh, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain specificity; Folk physics; Folk psychology; Genetics; Parental occupation; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001054309     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361398023006     Document Type: Review

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