Autism and the origins of social neuroscience

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 239-255

  Baron Cohen, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203311875     Document Type: Chapter

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