Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD, is a renowned British psychologist and director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. He is a professor of developmental psychopathology in the departments of psychiatry and experimental psychology at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Books

He has written five books, among which Mindblindness (1995) is a classic, and has edited three.

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In Baron-Cohen's book, The Essential Difference (2004), he argues there are innate differences between male and female brains. Female brains are predominantly wired for empathy, he reasons, whereas male brains are predominantly wired for "understanding and building systems." He describes autism as an extreme version of the male brain, which he postulates as an explanation for why autism is more common among males.

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In addition to autism, Baron-Cohen is also one of the pioneers in the empirical study of synaesthesia, and has written a book on it. (Synaesthesia, 1997)

Related Topics:
Synaesthesia - 1997

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