Self-ordered pointing in children with autism: Failure to use verbal mediation in the service of working memory?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1400-1411

  Joseph, Robert M ^a   Steele, Shelley D ^a   Meyer, Echo ^a   Tager Flusberg, Helen ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANTILE AUTISM; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFERENCE VALUES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 21244435485     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.01.010     Document Type: Article

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