Attention to facial emotion expressions in children with autism

Autism

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-51

  Begeer, Sander ^a,c   Rieffe, Carolien ^b   Terwogt, Mark Meerum ^c   Stockmann, Lex ^d  

^a PI Research Ltd   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Centrum Autisme   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotions; Facial expressions; High functioning autism; PDD NOS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645641188     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: 14617005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361306057862     Document Type: Article

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