The brain's response to the human voice depends on the incidence of autistic traits in the general population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Yoshimura, Yuko ^a   Kikuchi, Mitsuru ^a   Ueno, Sanae ^a   Okumura, Eiichi ^b   Hiraishi, Hirotoshi ^a   Hasegawa, Chiaki ^a   Remijn, Gerard B ^c   Shitamichi, Kiyomi ^a   Munesue, Toshio ^a   Tsubokawa, Tsunehisa ^a   Higashida, Haruhiro ^a   Minabe, Yoshio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893364080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080126     Document Type: Article

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