Using effort to measure reward value of faces in children with autism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Ewing, Louise ^a   Pellicano, Elizabeth ^a,b   Rhodes, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD;

EID: 84893391539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079493     Document Type: Article

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