Abnormal spatiotemporal processing of emotional facial expressions in childhood autism: Dipole source analysis of event-related potentials

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 407-416

  Wong, Teresa K W ^a,c   Fung, Peter C W ^a   Chua, Siew E ^a,b   McAlonan, Grainne M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NONE   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

BESA; Brain; Electroencephalography; Emotion; Faces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SCALP; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 48349105168     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06328.x     Document Type: Article

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