A new virtual environment paradigm for high functioning autism intended to help attentional disengagement in a social context: Bridging the gap between relevance theory and executive dysfunction

2009 Virtual Rehabilitation International Conference, VR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-58

  Grynszpan, Ouriel ^a   Nadel, Jacqueline ^a   Constant, Jacques ^b   Le Barillier, Florence ^b   Carbonell, Noelle ^c   Simonin, Jérome ^c   Martin, Jean Claude ^d   Courgeon, Matthieu ^d  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Hospital of Chartres   (France)

^c LORIA   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Attentional disengagement; Autism; Emotion; Executive dysfunction; Eye tracking; Facial expression; Gaze contingency; Pragmatics; Relevance theory; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL DISENGAGEMENT; AUTISM; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION; EYE-TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GAZE-CONTINGENCY; PRAGMATICS; RELEVANCE THEORY; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 70449115408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICVR.2009.5174205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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