In search of the hidden: An fMRI study with implications for the study of patients with autism and with acquired brain injury

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 674-683

  Manjaly, Zina M ^a   Marshall, John C ^b   Stephan, Klaas E ^c   Gurd, Jennifer M ^b,d   Zilles, Karl ^a,e   Fink, Gereon R ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asperger's syndrome; Embedded Figures Task; Local global processing; Parietal cortex; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; GEOMETRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

EID: 0041669434     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00095-8     Document Type: Article

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