Deficits in facial, body movement and vocal emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1919-1929

  Philip, R C M ^a   Whalley, H C ^a   Stanfield, A C ^a   Sprengelmeyer, R ^b   Santos, I M ^c   Young, A W ^d   Atkinson, A P ^e   Calder, A J ^f   Johnstone, E C ^a   Lawrie, S M ^a   Hall, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; emotion; face; gesture; vocal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT; SPEECH; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 78650311345     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709992364     Document Type: Article

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