Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling ApproachA long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range.
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... language 15 An invitation to consider diagrams as a tool 18 A tool for representing causal relationships 18 Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition One thingI do want you to believe Reductionism Can we rely on behaviour? The IQ example: a note ...
... language 15 An invitation to consider diagrams as a tool 18 A tool for representing causal relationships 18 Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition One thingI do want you to believe Reductionism Can we rely on behaviour? The IQ example: a note ...
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... language may look acceptable, but at second glance, it scarcely approaches the issue. This explanation, too, leaves enormous gaps. It implies that he did not want to live without her. However, if Romeo had thought thatJuliet had died in ...
... language may look acceptable, but at second glance, it scarcely approaches the issue. This explanation, too, leaves enormous gaps. It implies that he did not want to live without her. However, if Romeo had thought thatJuliet had died in ...
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... language, not with language behaviour. Such facts put a systematic restriction on the range of an individual framework, and, it might also turn out, put restrictions on the scope of the causal modelling framework. Theory A theory is an ...
... language, not with language behaviour. Such facts put a systematic restriction on the range of an individual framework, and, it might also turn out, put restrictions on the scope of the causal modelling framework. Theory A theory is an ...
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... language. Purely verbal expression of immensely complex ideas is difficult to achieve. I find that such expression of ideas is even more difficult to comprehend. This is because language is predominantly linear, while ideas are ...
... language. Purely verbal expression of immensely complex ideas is difficult to achieve. I find that such expression of ideas is even more difficult to comprehend. This is because language is predominantly linear, while ideas are ...
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... language – be careful when you read this Let me begin to illustrate the limitations of language with an example from our own work. In Morton and Frith (1993a), we comment on some of the implications of a paper by Cossu et al. (1993) ...
... language – be careful when you read this Let me begin to illustrate the limitations of language with an example from our own work. In Morton and Frith (1993a), we comment on some of the implications of a paper by Cossu et al. (1993) ...
Contents
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A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition | 20 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 3 Representing Causal Relationships Technical and Formal Considerations | 34 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 4 Autism How Causal Modelling Started | 67 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 5 The What and the How | 98 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 6 Competing Causal Accounts of Autism | 106 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 7 The Problem of Diagnosis | 133 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 8 A Causal Analysis of Dyslexia | 161 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 9 The Hyperkinetic Confusions | 208 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 10 Theories of Conduct Disorder | 227 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 11 Tying in Biology | 247 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Chapter 12 To Conclude | 270 |
A Causal Modelling Approach References | 273 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Name Index | 292 |
A Causal Modelling Approach Subject Index | 296 |
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Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton No preview available - 2005 |
Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton No preview available - 2008 |
Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach John Morton No preview available - 2005 |
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ability ADHD antisocial behaviour autistic children autistic signs behaviour Figure behaviour genetic behavioural level biological level biological origin biology cognition behaviour Blair brain abnormality brain cognition behaviour brain difference Caspi and Moffitt causal chain causal model cause cause of autism central coherence chapter child claim cognitive deficit cognitive factors cognitive function cognitive level cognitive processes component condition conduct disorder correlation developmental disorders diagnosis diagram Down’s syndrome dyslexia dyslexic effects elements environment environmental example executive dysfunction executive function EXPRAIS false belief task Frith frontal lobe gene genetic GP system hyperactivity hypothesis impairment individual interaction kinds lack language lead learning mechanism mental Morton neural neurons normal development notation particular performance phenotype phonological deficit phonological processing difficulty possible predictions problems psychopathy reason relation represent representation response Ritalin shown in figure social specific syndrome theories of autism Theory of Mind ToMM underlying Uta Frith variability verbal visual