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YOUR BRAIN AS A PREDICTION MACHINE
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
Elizabeth Pellicano, a leader in this movement, calls ‘experience-based expertise’.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
The Pattern Seekers,
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
Saga Norén, the detective in the Scandinavian TV crime drama The Bridge,
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
All of her patients had unusual patterns of high and low levels of ability, what Sukhareva called ‘a mixture of finesse and silliness’.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
Little sign of the ‘whatever’ shrug here, then.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
began to look as if females did, indeed, have their own kind of highly focussed interests, but they weren’t on the ‘approved’ list of weather patterns or transport systems or mathematical calculations listed in the diagnostic tests.
Gina Rippon • Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
But now the focus is much more on the connections within the brain, both structural and functional, so-called connectomics.19