About the Authors

Felix D. C. C. Beacher

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix D. C. C. Beacher, Eugenia Radulescu

Affiliations Psychiatry, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Eugenia Radulescu

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix D. C. C. Beacher, Eugenia Radulescu

e.radulescu@bsms.ac.uk

Affiliations Psychiatry, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Ludovico Minati

Affiliations Psychiatry, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, Scientific Department and Neuroradiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy

Simon Baron-Cohen

Affiliation Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael V. Lombardo

Affiliation Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Meng-Chuan Lai

Affiliation Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anne Walker

Affiliation Neurobehavioural Clinic, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, c/o Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital Site, Hove, United Kingdom

Dawn Howard

Affiliation Neurobehavioural Clinic, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, c/o Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital Site, Hove, United Kingdom

Marcus A. Gray

Affiliations Psychiatry, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, Experimental Neuropsychology Research Unit School of Psychology, Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Neil A. Harrison

Affiliations Psychiatry, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, Neurobehavioural Clinic, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, c/o Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital Site, Hove, United Kingdom

Hugo D. Critchley

Affiliations Psychiatry, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, Neurobehavioural Clinic, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, c/o Sussex Education Centre, Mill View Hospital Site, Hove, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FDCCB LM MAG NAH HDC. Performed the experiments: FDCCB LM MAG NAH HDC AW DH. Analyzed the data: ER FDCCB MAG NAH HDC M-CL MVL LM. Wrote the paper: ER HDC NAH LM FDCCB MVL M-CL SB-C. Assessed the participants: AW DH NAH HDC.