Social cognition in Williams syndrome: Relations between performance on the social attribution task and cognitive and behavioral characteristics

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  van der Fluit, Faye ^a   Gaffrey, Michael S ^b   Klein Tasman, Bonita P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral phenotype; Social attribution task; Social cognition; Social reciprocity; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867113565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00197     Document Type: Article

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