Fragmented visuospatial processing in children with pervasive developmental disorder

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1025-1037

  Schlooz, Wim A J M ^a,c   Hulstijn, Wouter ^b   Van Den Broek, Pieter J A ^a   Van Der Pijll, Angela C A M ^a   Gabreëls, Fons ^a   Van Der Gaag, Rutger J ^a   Rotteveel, Jan J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Herlaarhof   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autism; Central coherence; Children's Embedded Figure Test; Local and global processing; Pervasive Developmental Disorder; Rey Complex Figure Task

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ASPERGER SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845873046     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0140-z     Document Type: Article

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