Autism: Face-Processing Clues to Inheritance

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Pellicano, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; EMOTION; FACE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PARENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PARENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 50849133587     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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