Eyes are special but not for everyone: The case of autism

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 715-718

  Ristic, Jelena ^a   Mottron, Laurent ^b   Friesen, Chris Kelland ^c   Iarocci, Grace ^d   Burack, Jacob A ^e   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Eye direction; Social attenuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23644439084     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.02.007     Document Type: Article

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