Judgments of auditory-visual affective congruence in adolescents with and without autism: A pilot study of a new task using fMRI

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 557-575

  Loveland, Katherine A ^a   Steinberg, Joel L ^a   Pearson, Deborah A ^a   Mansour, Rosleen ^a   Reddoch, Stacy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEARING; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VOICE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 57449121886     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.107.2.557-575     Document Type: Article

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