Does perceived direct gaze boost detection in adults and children with and without autism? The stare-in-the-crowd effect revisited

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1474-1496

  Senju, Atsushi ^a   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a   Tojo, Yoshikuni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 28044434888     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000797     Document Type: Article

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