Illusory memories of emotionally charged words in autism spectrum disorder: Further evidence for atypical emotion processing outside the social domain

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1031-1038

  Gaigg, Sebastian B ^a   Bowler, Dermot M ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder; Emotional processing; Illusory memories; Memory; Orthographic associations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; WORD LIST RECALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VERBAL LEARNING; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 70349566489     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0710-y     Document Type: Article

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