Do the eyes have it? Extraction of identity and positive expression from another's eyes in autism, probed using "Bubbles"

Brain and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 584-590

  Song, Yongning ^a,b   Kawabe, Takahiro ^c   Hakoda, Yuji ^b   Du, Xiaoxin ^d  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^d East China Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs); Face perception; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EYE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EMOTIONS; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84863570240     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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