TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints9124
UR  - http://cogprints.org/9124/
A1  - McDowell, Doctor Maxson J
Y1  - 2011///
N2  - This paper shows that an experimental hypothesis is plausible and merits testing. In brief the hypothesis is that autism begins with a failure in early learning and that changing the environment of early learning would dramatically change its incidence. Strong statistical evidence supporting this hypothesis was published by Waldman et al. (2008) but this evidence has largely been ignored, perhaps because it challenges prevalent beliefs about autism.

This paper also suggests that the current epidemic of autism is serious enough, and intellectually mysterious enough, to merit attention from a wider community of cognitive scientists: new ideas are needed. A confirmation of this paper?s hypothesis would have interesting implications for cognitive science. 
PB  - MIT Press Journals (now Springer)
KW  - Autism spectrum disorder
Complexity
Complex dynamic system
Eye contact
Face recognition
Infant-mother dyad
Intersubjectivity
Oxytocin
Self-organized
Television
Smart phones
TI  - Autism?s direct cause? Failure of infant-mother eye contact in a complex adaptive system 
SP  - 344
AV  - public
EP  - 356
ER  -

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