Social Cognition, the Male Brain and the Autism Spectrum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Hall, Jeremy ^a   Philip, Ruth C M ^a   Marwick, Katie ^a   Whalley, Heather C ^a   Romaniuk, Liana ^a   McIntosh, Andrew M ^a   Santos, Isabel ^b   Sprengelmeyer, Reiner ^c   Johnstone, Eve C ^a   Stanfield, Andrew C ^a   Young, Andy W ^d   Lawrie, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84871566067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049033     Document Type: Article

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