Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor in Developmental Psychopathology and Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, is the author of Mindblindness (MIT Press, 1997) and The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Mind.

Svetlana Lutchmaya received her Ph.D. in 2001 from the the University of Cambridge.

Rebecca Knickmeyer is a doctoral candidate at the Autism Research Centre.