Enhanced discrimination of novel, highly similar stimuli by adults with autism during a perceptual learning task

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 765-775

  Plaisted, Kate ^a   O'Riordan, Michelle ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0031872989     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021963098002601     Document Type: Article

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