Brain Responses to Words in 2-Year-Olds with Autism Predict Developmental Outcomes at Age 6

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kuhl, Patricia K ^a   Coffey Corina, Sharon ^b   Padden, Denise ^a   Munson, Jeffrey ^a   Estes, Annette ^a   Dawson, Geraldine ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Autism Speaks Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOMATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE;

EID: 84878452138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064967     Document Type: Article

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