Inhibition in autism: Children with autism have difficulty inhibiting irrelevant distractors but not prepotent responses

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1052-1063

  Adams, Nena C ^a   Jarrold, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Children; Inhibition; Prepotent response inhibition; Resistance to distractor inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84863860111     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-011-1345-3     Document Type: Article

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