Neural plasticity, joint attention, and a transactional social-orienting model of autism

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation

Volumn 23, Issue , 2000, Pages 139-168

  Mundy, Peter ^a   Rebecca Neal, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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EID: 35448996635     PISSN: 00747750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7750(00)80009-9     Document Type: Article

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