Is synaesthesia more common in autism?

Molecular Autism

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Baron Cohen, Simon ^a   Johnson, Donielle ^a   Asher, Julian ^a   Wheelwright, Sally ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^b,c   Gregersen, Peter K ^d   Allison, Carrie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYNESTHESIA; TASTE; TOUCH; VISION;

EID: 84887806232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-4-40     Document Type: Article

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