How Autism Drives Human Invention

The Pattern Seekers

Simon Baron-Cohen

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A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity. Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution. How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species’s inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn’t just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
Estimated Reading Time: 7 hrs. 42 min.Page Number: 272Publication Date: November 2020Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9781541647145Language: İngilizceFormat: Ciltli
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Simon Baron-Cohen
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Simon Baron-Cohen FBA profesörüdür (1958 15 Ağustos doğumlu) gelişimsel psikopatoloji de Cambridge Üniversitesi İngiltere'de. O Üniversitesi'nin Direktörü olan Otizm Araştırma Merkezi , ve Fellow Trinity College . 1985'te zihin bulutunu formüle ettiOtizm teorisi, onun delili 1995 kitabında harmanlandı. 1997'de o ana testi 2015'te yayınlanan otistik fetal cinsiyet steroid teorisini formüle etti. Ayrıca tipik bilişsel cinsiyet farklılıkları, otizm prevalansı ve tarama, otizm genetiği, otizm nörogörüntüleme, otizm alanlarına büyük katkılar sağlamıştır. Ve teknik yeteneği ve sinestezi.