Is anyone looking at me? Direct gaze detection in children with and without autism

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-139

  Senju, Atsushi ^a   Kikuchi, Yukiko ^b   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^b   Tojo, Yoshikuni ^c   Osanai, Hiroo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Musashino Higashi Gakuen   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Autism spectrum disorder; Direct gaze; Face inversion effect; Face processing; Gaze; Search asymmetry; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FACE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL LEARNING; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 44649085818     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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