Eye-movement patterns are associated with communicative competence in autistic spectrum disorders

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 834-842

  Norbury, Courtenay Frazier ^a,b   Brock, Jon ^a,c   Cragg, Lucy ^a,d   Einav, Shiri ^a   Griffiths, Helen ^e   Nation, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Autism; Eye tracking; Language impairment; Social attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIDEORECORDING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FACE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMMUNICATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70249104275     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02073.x     Document Type: Article

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