Specific impairment of face-processing abilities in children withautism spectrum disorder using the let's face it! skills battery

Autism Research

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 329-340

  Tanaka, James W ^b   Wolf, Julie M ^a   Klaiman, Cheryl ^a   Cockburn, Jeff ^b   Herlihy, Lauren ^a   Brown, Carla ^a   South, Mikle ^a   McPartland, James ^a   Kaiser, Martha D ^b   Phillips, Rebecca ^b   Schultz, Robert T ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessment; Computer based assessment; Face recognition; Object recognition; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; VISION;

AFFECT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650157224     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.56     Document Type: Review

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