Deeper attentional masking by lateral objects in children with autism

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-218

  Ronconi, Luca ^a   Gori, Simone ^a,b   Giora, Enrico ^c   Ruffino, Milena ^b   Molteni, Massimo ^b   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Object substitution; Social cognition; Spatio temporal processing; Visual masking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL MASKING; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877913979     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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