A parallel and distributed-processing model of joint attention, social cognition and autism

Autism Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-21

  Mundy, Peter ^a,b   Sullivan, Lisa ^a   Mastergeorge, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early development; Neural connectivity; Social symptoms

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUTISM; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GAZE; GESTURE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 63449089138     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.61     Document Type: Review

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