The scope of social attention deficits in autism: Prioritized orienting to people and animals in static natural scenes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-59

  New, Joshua J ^a,b   Schultz, Robert T ^a   Wolf, Julie ^a   Niehaus, Jeffrey L ^c   Klin, Ami ^a   German, Tamsin C ^c   Scholl, Brian J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Autism spectrum disorder; Change detection; Social attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 71549160834     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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