Case report: Selective deficit in the production of intransitive gestures in an individual with autism

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 407-409

  Stieglitz Ham, Heidi ^a   Bartolo, Angela ^b   Corley, Martin ^a   Swanson, Sara ^c   Rajendran, Gnanathusharan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Univ Lille   (France)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LETTER; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 76049096013     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.005     Document Type: Letter

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