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Baron-Cohen, S., Knickmeyer, R.C. and Belmonte, M.K. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4633-9400,
2005.
Sex differences in the brain: implications for explaining autism.
Science, 310 (5749).
ISSN 0036-8075
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Abstract
‘Empathizing’ is the capacity to predict and to respond to the behavior of agents (usually people) by inferring their mental states and responding to these with an appropriate emotion. ‘Systemizing’ is the capacity to predict and to respond to the behavior of non-agentive, deterministic systems, by analyzing input-operation-output relations and inferring the rules that govern such systems. At a population level, females are stronger empathizers and males stronger systemizers. The ‘extreme male brain’ theory posits that autism represents an extreme of the male pattern (impaired empathizing and enhanced systemizing). Here we suggest that specific aspects of autistic neuropathology may also be extremes of typical male neuroanatomy.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Science | ||||
| Creators: | Baron-Cohen, S., Knickmeyer, R.C. and Belmonte, M.K. | ||||
| Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science | ||||
| Date: | 2005 | ||||
| Volume: | 310 | ||||
| Number: | 5749 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0036-8075 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | EPrints Services | ||||
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 09:47 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:10 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2710 |
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