Spatial attention in individuals with pervasive developmental disorders using the gap overlap task

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 269-275

  Kawakubo, Yuki ^a   Maekawa, Hisao ^a   Itoh, Kenji ^b   Hashimoto, Ohohiko ^c   Iwanami, Akira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention process; Autism; Saccadic eye movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 1642320613     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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