Mutual eye gaze facilitates person categorization for typically developing children, but not for children with autism

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1094-1099

  Pellicano, Elizabeth ^a,b   Neil Macrae, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 74849112210     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.6.1094     Document Type: Article

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