Disentangling weak coherence and executive dysfunction: Planning drawing in autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1430, 2003, Pages 387-392

  Booth, Rhonda ^a   Charlton, Rebecca ^a   Hughes, Claire ^a   Happé, Francesca ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Cognitive style; Coherence; Drawing; Executive function; Planning

Indexed keywords

AUTISM;

EID: 0037470527     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1204     Document Type: Article

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