Neurophysiological responses to faces and gaze direction differentiate children with ASD, ADHD and ASD + ADHD

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-85

  Tye, Charlotte ^a   Mercure, Evelyne ^b   Ashwood, Karen L ^a   Azadi, Bahare ^a   Asherson, Philip ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^c   Bolton, Patrick ^a   McLoughlin, Gráinne ^a,d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; ASD; Comorbidity; Event related potentials (ERP); Face processing; Gaze

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; GAZE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84874856922     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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