Contagious yawning in autistic and typical development

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1620-1631

  Helt, Molly S ^a   Eigsti, Inge Marie ^a   Snyder, Peter J ^b   Fein, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; YAWNING;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; YAWNING;

EID: 77956582023     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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