Uta Frith: 'The brain is not a pudding; it is an engine'

The neuroscientist who first recognised autism as a condition of the brain rather than the result of cold parentingUta Frith sits in her beautiful, book-lined sitting-room in Harrow, north London, looking out towards the Chilterns. She is emeritus professor in cognitive development at UCL ? and last year was made a dame. She is warm, smiling, bespectacled, dressed in brown linen and a fine gold necklace.Towards the end of our meeting, she describes a conversation she once had with an autistic person who was obsessed with light fittings in railway carriages and was trying to interest her in the minute differences between one fixture and the next. When she admitted she could not tell them apart, he laughed at her incredulously.People with autism are known to have an uncanny eye for detail ...

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