Spontaneous but not explicit processing of positive sentences impaired in Asperger's syndrome: Pupillometric evidence

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-338

  Kuchinke, Lars ^a,d   Schneider, Dana ^b   Kotz, Sonja A ^c   Jacobs, Arthur M ^d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asperger's syndrome; Emotional prosody; Pupillary responses; Task dependency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MYDRIASIS; PUPILLOMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUPIL; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79551490156     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.026     Document Type: Article

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