Lack of Visual Orienting to Biological Motion and Audiovisual Synchrony in 3-Year-Olds with Autism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Falck Ytter, Terje ^a,b   Rehnberg, Erik ^a   Bölte, Sven ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL SYNCHRONY; AUTISM; BIOLOGICAL MOTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879954328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068816     Document Type: Article

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