The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: Lessons from autism

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1430, 2003, Pages 345-360

  Klin, Ami ^a   Jones, Warren ^a   Schultz, Robert ^a   Volkmar, Fred ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Embodied cognition; Enactive mind; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AUTISM;

EID: 0037470506     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1202     Document Type: Article

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