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Towards a computational neuroscience of autism-psychosis spectrum disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

Tony Vladusich
Tony Vladusich
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, and Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science and Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215. thevlad@bu.edu
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Abstract

Crespi & Badcock (C&B) hypothesize that psychosis and autism represent opposite poles of human social cognition. I briefly outline how computational models of cognitive brain function may be used as a resource to further develop and experimentally test hypotheses concerning “autism-psychosis spectrum disorders.”1

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 282 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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