Network model of decreased context utilization in autism spectrum disorder

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1040-1048

  Beversdorf, David Q ^a,b   Narayanan, Ananth ^b   Hillier, Ashleigh ^a   Hughes, John D ^c  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; False memory; Hippocampus; Memory; Neural network; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34250865119     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-006-0242-7     Document Type: Article

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