Attention bias to faces in Asperger Syndrome: A pictorial emotion Stroop study

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 835-843

  Ashwin, Chris ^a   Wheelwright, Sally ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PERFORMING ARTIST; PHOTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33646717926     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291706007203     Document Type: Article

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