Processing capacity in children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-354

  Hoeksma, Marco R ^a,b   Kemner, Chantal ^a   Verbaten, Marinus N ^b   Van Engeland, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

age; event related potentials (ERP); P300; Pervasive developement diorder (PDD); probe task; processing capacity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3042744187     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JADD.0000029555.98493.36     Document Type: Article

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