Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3362-3366

  Caldwell Harris, Catherine ^a   Murphy, Caitlin Fox ^a   Velazquez, Tessa ^a   McNamara, Patrick ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; Cognitive science of religion; cognitive styles; individual differences

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AUTISM; BELIEF SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE PROCESS; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGION; COGNITIVE STYLES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MENTAL STATE; STATE AGENCIES;

DISEASES;

EID: 84969716242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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