Age trends in visual exploration of social and nonsocial information in children with autism

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 842-851

  Elison, Jed T ^a,b   Sasson, Noah J ^d   Turner Brown, Lauren M ^b,c   Dichter, Gabriel S ^b,c   Bodfish, James W ^b,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Development; Eye tracking; Visual exploration

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSEVERATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84855236942     PISSN: 17509467     EISSN: 18780237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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