A multimodal approach to emotion recognition ability in autism spectrum disorders

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 275-285

  Jones, Catherine R G ^a   Pickles, Andrew ^b   Falcaro, Milena ^b   Marsden, Anita J S ^c   Happé, Francesca ^d   Scott, Sophie K ^e   Sauter, Disa ^e   Tregay, Jenifer ^c   Phillips, Rebecca J ^c   Baird, Gillian ^f   Simonoff, Emily ^d   Charman, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; emotion processing; emotion recognition; social communication; structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79751509488     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02328.x     Document Type: Article

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