Potential social interactions are important to social attention

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5548-5553

  Laidlaw, Kaitlin E W ^a   Foulsham, Tom ^b   Kuhn, Gustav ^c   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Eye movements; Overt visual attention; Visual cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTISM; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79955027969     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017022108     Document Type: Article

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