An important consequence of this developmental view is that the deficits that are the most diagnostic or the most obvious may not necessarily be the most aetiologically primary.

In order to make sense of autism we need to examine in neurobiological terms both high-level deficits in social cognition and lower-level abnormalities in attention and perception, and how and where in the brain perception and social function come together.

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