A comparison of the self-awareness and kinesthetic-visual matching theories of self-recognition: Autistic children and others

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 818, Issue , 1997, Pages 39-62

  Mitchell, Robert W ^a  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY IMAGE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOLPHIN; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANTILE AUTISM; NONHUMAN; PLANNING; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUTISM; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; KINESTHESIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; VISION;

AVES; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; KINESTHESIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION;

EID: 0030805707     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48245.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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