Brief report: Eye movements during visual search tasks indicate enhanced stimulus discriminability in subjects with PDD

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 553-557

  Kemner, Chantal ^a,b   Van Ewijk, Lizet ^a,c   Van Engeland, Herman ^a   Hooge, Ignace ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eye fixation; Eye movement; PDD; Perception; Search task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 40049089870     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-007-0406-0     Document Type: Article

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