Brief report: Additive and subtractive counterfactual reasoning of children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1593-1597

  Begeer, Sander ^a   Terwogt, Mark Meerum ^a   Lunenburg, Patty ^b   Stegge, Hedy ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PI Research Ltd   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autism; Counterfactuals; Flexibility; Fluency; Imagination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 70349971648     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0774-8     Document Type: Article

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