Atypical gaze patterns in children and adults with autism spectrum disorders dissociated from developmental changes in gaze behaviour

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1696, 2010, Pages 2935-2943

  Nakano, Tamami ^a,b   Tanaka, Kyoko ^a   Endo, Yuuki ^a   Yamane, Yui ^a   Yamamoto, Takahiro ^c   Nakano, Yoshiaki ^c   Ohta, Haruhisa ^b,d   Kato, Nobumasa ^b,d   Kitazawa, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Japanese Institute for Education and Treatment   (Japan)

^d SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Development; Eye movements; Eye tracking; Mouth viewing; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD HEALTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956922092     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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