Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1628, 2007, Pages 3027-3031

  Bird, Geoffrey ^a,b   Leighton, Jane ^a   Press, Clare ^a   Heyes, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animacy; Autism; Imitation; Mirror neuron; Mirror system

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMITATION; ROBOTICS; SPECTRUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMITATION; INTIMACY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 36549063495     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1019     Document Type: Article

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