The beautiful otherness of the autistic mind

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1522, 2009, Pages 1345-1350

  Happé, Francesca ^a   Frith, Uta ^b,c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; AUTISM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RESEARCH;

APTITUDE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESEARCH;

EID: 66149093401     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0009     Document Type: Editorial

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