How Are Autism and Schizotypy Related? Evidence from a Non-Clinical Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Dinsdale, Natalie L ^a   Hurd, Peter L ^b   Wakabayashi, Akio ^c   Elliot, Mick ^a   Crespi, Bernard J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM QUOTIENT; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; MENTAL ROTATION TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE BRIEF REVISED; TASK PERFORMANCE; WATERLOO HANDEDNESS QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877746789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063316     Document Type: Article

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