Evidence against poor semantic encoding in individuals with autism

Autism

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-254

  Whitehouse, Andrew J O ^a,c   Maybery, Murray T ^a   Durkin, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Memory; Phonological encoding; Semantic encoding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249673380     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: 14617005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361307076860     Document Type: Article

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