Abnormal social reward processing in autism as indexed by pupillary responses to happy faces

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sepeta, Leigh ^a,e   Tsuchiya, Naotsugu ^b,f,g   Davies, Mari S ^a   Sigman, Marian ^a,d   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a,d   Dapretto, Mirella ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autism; Pupillary response; Reward processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; MYDRIASIS; PUPIL; PUPILLOMETRY; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 84863970743     PISSN: 18661947     EISSN: 18661955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1866-1955-4-17     Document Type: Article

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