Edited by Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Director, Autism Research Centre, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK, Michael Lombardo, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK, and Helen Tager-Flusberg, Department of Psychology, Boston University, USA

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinty College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He held lectureships in both of these departments before moving to Cambridge in 1994. He is author of Mindblindness (1995), The Essential Difference (2003), Prenatal Testosterone in Mind (2005), and Zero Degrees of Empathy (2011). He has edited a number of scholarly anthologies including Understanding Ohter Minds (1993, 2000, and 2013), Synaesthesia (1997), and The Maladapted Mind (1997). He has also written books for parents and teachers including Autism and Asperger Syndrome: The Facts (2008), and Teaching Children with Autism to Mindread (1999). He has celebrated art in autism in An Exact Mind (2004).

Michael V. Lombardo received a BA from the University of California, Davis and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Soon after his PhD he took up a research fellowship from Jesus College, Cambridge and a postdoctoral research fellowship from the British Academy. Dr. Lombardo is currently a research associate and Director of MRI at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. His interdisciplinary work focuses on understanding autism, self-referential and social cognition, human brain development, and the early effects that hormones have for programming later development.

Helen Tager-Flusberg received her Bachelors in Science in Psychology from University College London, and her doctorate from Harvard University. From 1978 through 2001 she was a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts -Boston. From 1996 - 2001 she also held the position of Senior Scientist at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center/UMass Medical Center. Since 2001 Dr. Tager-Flusberg has been at Boston University in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and now as Professor of Psychology at Boston University, where she is the Director of the Autism Center of Excellence. Dr. Tager-Flusberg has conducted research on autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders investigating developmental changes in language and social cognition using behavioral and brain imaging methodologies.

Professor Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Bonnie Auyeung, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr James Blair, Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience at NIMH, USA
Professor Peter Carruthers, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, USA
Dr Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Department of Psychology, University of Reading, UK
Dr Frances S. Chen, Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Dr Gregor Domes, Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Maddalena Fabbri-Destro, Universities of Ferrara and Parma, Italy.
Dr Valeria Gazzola, NeuroImaging Center Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor Alvin Goldman, Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Professor Alison Gopnik, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Dr Julie Hadwin, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK
Dr Antonia Hamilton, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Professor Markus Heinrichs, Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Dr Jessica Hobson, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), UK
Professor Peter Hobson, UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH), UK
Lucy C. Jordan, Rutgers University, USA
Professor David A. Kenny, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA
Professor Dr. Christian Keysers, NeuroImaging Center, Groningen, The Netherlands
Jorie Koster-Hale, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Hanna Kovshoff, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK
Lauren Marsh, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr. Cade McCall, Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
Professor Andrew N. Meltzoff, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, USA
Dr Caroline Michel, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Professor Kevin Ochsner, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, USA
Dr Josef Perner Fachbereich, University of Saltzberg, Austria
Dr. Anat Perry, University of Haifa, Israel
Candida C. Peterson, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, Section of Physiology, Università, Studi di Parma, Italy
Dr Johannes Roessler, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK
Professor Mark Sabbagh, Psychology Department, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
Dr Dana Samson, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Dr Rebecca Saxe, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Dr Simone Shamay-Tsoory, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Israel
Professor Tania Singer, Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany
Dr Victoria Southgate, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Dr Liane Young, Department of Psychology, Boston College, USA
Dr Adam Waytz, Management and Organisations Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA
Professor Henry M. Wellman, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
Dr Stuart F. White, Unit of Affective Cognitive Neuroscience National Institute of Mental Health/NIH, USA
Professor Andrew Whiten, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, UK
Dr. Jamil Zaki, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, USA

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