The link between autism and skills such as engineering, maths, physics and computing

Autism

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 223-227

  Wheelwright, S ^a   Baron Cohen, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; FATHER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OCCUPATION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SKILL; THEORY;

ADULT; APTITUDE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CAREER CHOICE; CHILD; COMPUTER LITERACY; ENGINEERING; FATHERS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PHYSICS;

EID: 0034991093     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361301005002010     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. 'Are Children with Autism Superior at Folk Physics?'
2. 'Autism: Deficits in Folk Psychology Exist Alongside Superiority in Folk Physics'
3. 'Is Autism Necessarily a Disability?'
4. 'Is There a Link between Engineering and Autism?'
5. 'Does Autism Occur More Often in Families of Physicists, Engineers, and Mathematicians?'
6. 'A Mathematician, a Physicist, and a Computer Scientist with Asperger Syndrome: Performance on Folk Psychology and Folk Physics Test'
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9. 'Autism: Cognitive Deficit or Cognitive Style?'
10. 'Is There Really a Link between Engineering and Autism? A Reply to Baron-Cohen et al.