caa a22 4500 386339473 CHVBK 20180307111744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954579400000419 doi S0954579400000419 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954579400000419 Second thoughts on the nature of autism [Elektronische Daten] This article presents our response to the comments of Baron-Cohen, Harris, Hobson, and Leslie and Happé. We suggest that a singular cognitive hypothesis does not provide a parsimonious explanation of autism. We argue that certain aspects of autism, including observations of joint-attention deficits and observations of deficits in the prosodic elements of speech, may best be explained in terms of both cognitive and affective factors. We also acknowledge the validity of the criticism of our contingency processing deficit hypothesis (Mundy & Sigman, 1989a). In response to this criticism, we offer a modification of our model of joint-attention skill deficits in autistic children. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Mundy Peter Department of Psychiatry, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences Sigman Marian Department of Psychiatry, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 213-217 0954-5794 1:3<213 1989 1 DPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000419 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000419 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mundy Peter Department of Psychiatry, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sigman Marian Department of Psychiatry, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/3(1989-07), 213-217 0954-5794 1:3<213 1989 1 DPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge