Are you looking at me? Accuracy in processing line-of-sight in Turner syndrome

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1508, 2002, Pages 2415-2422

  Elgar, Kate ^a   Campbell, Ruth ^b   Skuse, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Gaze acuity; Turner syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 45,X; MONOSOMY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SYNDROME X; TASK PERFORMANCE; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0037039037     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2173     Document Type: Article

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