Orienting to social stimuli differentiates social cognitive impairment in autism and schizophrenia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2580-2588

  Sasson, Noah ^a   Tsuchiya, Naotsugu ^b   Hurley, Robert ^a   Couture, Shannon M ^c   Penn, David L ^c   Adolphs, Ralph ^b   Piven, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Emotion; Eyetracking; Perception; Schizophrenia; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMOTION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 34250630085     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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