Gamma activation in young people with autism spectrum disorders and typically-developing controls when viewing emotions on faces

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wright, Barry ^a,b   Alderson Day, Ben ^a   Prendergast, Garreth ^b   Bennett, Sophie ^a   Jordan, Jo ^a   Whitton, Clare ^a   Gouws, Andre ^b   Jones, Nick ^a   Attur, Ram ^a   Tomlinson, Heather ^a   Green, Gary ^b  

^a North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PILOT STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN WAVES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84864464493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041326     Document Type: Article

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