Priming the meaning of homographs in typically developing children and children with autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 329-340

  Hala, Suzanne ^a   Pexman, Penny M ^a   Glenwright, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autism; Cognition; Executive function; Homographs; Priming; Weak central coherence

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33847194690     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0162-6     Document Type: Article

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