Autism - The Extreme Male Brain
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- Created on: 29-12-15 23:02
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- Autism - The Extreme Male Brain
- Sex differences understood in two key axes - empathising and systemising
- Men are systemisers while women tend to be empathisers
- Empathising is the prediction of behaviours of others by putting yourself in their position
- Systemising is drive to analyse, understand and construct systems, where a system takes input and delivers output according to rules.
- Males perform worse than females in theory of mind test and autistic people perform poorer than both
- Includes friendship questionnaire, identifying expression from pics of eyes and Sally-Ann task
- Males are exposed to more fetal testosterone than females and Autistic people are shown to have been subject to higher levels of fetal testosterone
- Men are better at visuo-spatial tasks
- Sex differences understood in two key axes - empathising and systemising
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