From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Simon BaronCohen FBA born 15 August 1958 is professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom He is the Director of the Universitys Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College He is best known for his work on autism including his early theory that autism involves degrees of mindblindness or delays in the development of theory of mind and his later theory that autism is an extreme form of the male brain which involved a reconceptualisation of typical psychological sex differences in terms of empathizingsystemizing theory Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon BaronCohen licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia