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. 2014 Jan 6;24(1):R30-R31.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.021.

Autism: demise of the innate social orienting hypothesis

Mark H Johnson  1
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Autism: demise of the innate social orienting hypothesis

Mark H Johnson. Curr Biol. .
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Some have suggested that autism may be caused by poor orienting to social stimuli in early infancy, compounded by the resulting failures to learn from, and about, other humans. Recent results contradict this hypothesis, suggesting a need to rethink.

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