Similar Brain Activation during False Belief Tasks in a Large Sample of Adults with and without Autism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Dufour, Nicholas ^a   Redcay, Elizabeth ^b   Young, Liane ^c   Mavros, Penelope L ^a   Moran, Joseph M ^d   Triantafyllou, Christina ^a,e   Gabrieli, John D E ^a,e   Saxe, Rebecca ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884475834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075468     Document Type: Article

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