Biological motion processing as a hallmark of social cognition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 981-995

  Pavlova, Marina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

autism; body language reading; brain connectivity; Down syndrome (DS); Fragile X syndrome (FXS); genetic conditions; Heider and Simmel animations; neurodevelopmental disorders; periventricular lesions; point light biological motion (BM); preterm birth; social cognition; social development; Williams syndrome (WS)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860135327     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr156     Document Type: Article

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