Reading affect in the face and voice: Neural correlates of interpreting communicative intent in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 698-708

  Wang, A Ting ^a,b   Lee, Susan S ^a,c   Sigman, Marian ^a   Dapretto, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL DISABILITY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 34249946474     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.6.698     Document Type: Article

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