A neural substrate for atypical low-level visual processing in autism spectrum disorder

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1013-1024

  Vandenbroucke, Myriam W G ^a,b,e   Scholte, H Steven ^b   Van Engeland, Herman ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^b,c   Kemner, Chantal ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asperger; GABA; Horizontal connections; Lateral inhibition; Minicolumns

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 41849113057     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm321     Document Type: Article

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