Forty years on: Uta Frith's Contribution to Research on Autism and Dyslexia, 1966–2006

2007/11/24 by Dorothy Bishop · 1 citation
Neuroscience · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Autism Spectrum Disorder Research #Child Development and Digital Technology #Language Development and Disorders #Frith #Autism #Dyslexia #Psychology #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Biological theories of dyslexia #Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) #Social cognition #Developmental psychology #Developmental dyslexia #Reading (process) #Neuroscience #Linguistics

paper · doi:10.1080/17470210701508665

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Abstract

Uta Frith has made a major contribution to our understanding of developmental disorders, especially autism and dyslexia. She has studied the cognitive and neurobiological bases of both disorders and demonstrated distinctive impairments in social cognition and central coherence in autism, and in phonological processing in dyslexia. In this enterprise she has encouraged psychologists to work in a theoretical framework that distinguishes between observed behaviour and the underlying cognitive and neurobiological processes that mediate that behaviour.

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