Simon Baron-Cohen

British clinical psychologist and Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge, where he directs the Autism Research Centre. In a 1985 paper with Alan Leslie and Uta Frith, Baron-Cohen used the Sally-Anne false-belief test to show that autistic children, independent of general mental ability, had specific difficulty attributing false beliefs to others, a founding result for the theory-of-mind account of autism. He later developed the empathizing-systemizing theory of autism and helped design widely used autism screening and diagnostic instruments, including the Autism Spectrum Quotient. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/