Luminance- and Texture-Defined Information Processing in School-Aged Children with Autism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Rivest, Jessica B ^a,b   Jemel, Boutheina ^a   Bertone, Armando ^a   McKerral, Michelle ^b   Mottron, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTISM; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886261271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078978     Document Type: Article

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