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ERIC Number: EJ558641
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-2269
Are Children with Autism Superior at Folk Physics?
Baron-Cohen, Simon
New Directions for Child Development, n75 p45-54 Spr 1997
Uses clinical case studies showing autistic children's fascination with and understanding of machines, family studies focusing on occupations of fathers and grandfathers of children with autism or Asperger Syndrome, and experimental evidence using picture-sequencing methods to identify physical or intentional causality to show that children with autism show superiority in folk physics but deficits in folk psychology. (KB)
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Case Studies, Causal Models, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Individual Development, Intention, Physics, Psychology, Theories
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Knowledge Acquisition; Theory of Mind
Note: Theme issue: "The Emergence of Core Domains of Thought: Children's Reasoning about Physical, Psychological, and Biological Phenomena."