Absence of spontaneous action anticipation by false belief attribution in children with autism spectrum disorder

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 353-360

  Senju, Atsushi ^a   Southgate, Victoria ^a   Miura, Yui ^b   Matsui, Tomoko ^b   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^c   Tojo, Yoshikuni ^d   Osanai, Hiroo ^e   Csibra, Gergely ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Musashino Higashi Gakuen ^*  (Japan)

^f CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; VISION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952508908     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579410000106     Document Type: Article

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