Looking and thinking: How individuals with Williams syndrome make judgements about mental states

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4466-4476

  Hanley, Mary ^a   Riby, Deborah M ^a   Caswell, Stephen ^b   Rooney, Sinead ^b   Back, Elisa ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Eye gaze; Eye tracking; Mental states; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GAZE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATIENT WORRY; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TRUST; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EMOTION; EYE GAZE; EYE TRACKING; MENTAL STATES; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887607911     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.09.026     Document Type: Article

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