When the social mirror breaks: Deficits in automatic, but not voluntary, mimicry of emotional facial expressions in autism

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 295-302

  McIntosh, Daniel N ^a   Reichmann Decker, Aimee ^a   Winkielman, Piotr ^b   Wilbarger, Julia L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH;

EID: 33645835738     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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