"who said that?" matching of low- and high-intensity emotional prosody to facial expressions by adolescents with ASD

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2546-2557

  Grossman, Ruth B ^a,b   Tager Flusberg, Helen ^c  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Face voice matching; Facial expressions; Prosody; Signal intensity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876502786     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1511-2     Document Type: Article

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