Electrophysiological abnormalities of spatial attention in adults with autism during the gap overlap task

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1464-1471

  Kawakubo, Yuki ^a   Kasai, Kiyoto ^a   Okazaki, Shinji ^b   Hosokawa Kakurai, Miyuki ^c   Watanabe, Kei ichiro ^d   Kuwabara, Hitoshi ^a   Ishijima, Michiko ^a   Yamasue, Hidenori ^a   Iwanami, Akira ^e   Kato, Nobumasa ^f   Maekawa, Hisao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Event related potentials; Saccadic eye movement; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249669787     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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