Domain Specificity and Psychological Theorising on Autism The present volume attempts to integrate two streams of cognitive research which often run parallel: largely conceptual investigations on the overall frameworks of human cognition, and the much more empirical study of neurocognitive developmental disorders - in this case: autism. So the book is partly a conceptual analysis, exploring the issue of domain specificity and its place in cognitive theorising, but it also offers a detailed summary of the phenomena of autism, and a critical evaluation of its cognitive psyhological models, and, finally, presents new empirical findings on the complexity of beyond-childhood development of theory of mind ability in autism.