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Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor |
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 Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge (www.autismresearchcentre.com).
He holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He has been awarded prizes from the American Psychological Association, the British Association, and the British Psychological Society for his research into autism.
He is author of Mindblindness (MIT Press, 1995), The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (Penguin UK/Basic Books, 2003), and Mind Reading: The Interactive Guide to Emotions (Jessica Kingsley Ltd, 2004). He has edited academic books such as Understanding Other Minds (Oxford University Press, 2000) and written many articles in scientific journals reporting his empirical research into the cognitive neuroscience of autism.
Friday, October 27, 2006 - 1:30 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Concurrent Sessions - Session 18 - Rules, Rituals and Rigidity: The Hyper-Systemizing Theory of Autism
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Symposium 2006 