Cognition in autism: One deficit or many?

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 251, Issue , 2003, Pages 198-212

  Happé, Francesca ^a   Skuse, ^b   Bishop, ^b  

^a Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1542576340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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