Music: A unique window into the world of autism

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 318-324

  Molnar Szakacs, Istvan ^a   Heaton, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; ASD; Emotion; Insula; Mirror neurons

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MIRROR NEURON; MUSIC; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84860250341     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06465.x     Document Type: Article

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