About the Authors

Simon Baron-Cohen

vw260@medschl.cam.ac.uk (VW); sb205@cam.ac.uk (SBC)

Affiliations Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, CLASS Clinic, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Laura Murphy

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

Bhismadev Chakrabarti

Affiliations Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Ian Craig

Affiliation MRC Centre for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom

Uma Mallya

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

Silvia Lakatošová

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

Karola Rehnstrom

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Leena Peltonen

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Sally Wheelwright

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

Carrie Allison

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

Simon E. Fisher

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Varun Warrier

vw260@medschl.cam.ac.uk (VW); sb205@cam.ac.uk (SBC)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBC BC IC UM SW CA. Performed the experiments: LM UM SL. Analyzed the data: VW LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IC KR LP. Wrote the paper: SBC LM BC SEF VW.