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1: Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester). 2008 Jan;61(1):16-26.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Forty years on: Uta Frith's contribution to research on autism and dyslexia, 1966-2006.

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. dorothy.bishop@psy.ox.ac.uk

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.

Personal Name as Subject:
Frith U

PMID: 18038335 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2409181