Attention does not modulate neural responses to social stimuli in autism spectrum disorders

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1614-1624

  Bird, Geoffrey ^a   Catmur, Caroline ^a   Silani, Giorgia ^a,c   Frith, Chris ^b   Frith, Uta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Connectivity; DCM; Faces; fMRI; Fusiform face area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33745210977     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.02.037     Document Type: Article

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