Larger extrastriate population receptive fields in autism spectrum disorders

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2713-2724

  Samuel Schwarzkopf, D ^a,b   Anderson, Elaine J ^a,b,c   de Haas, Benjamin ^a,b   White, Sarah J ^a   Rees, Geraint ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism; Perceptual function; Population receptive fields; Retinotopy; Tuning; Vision

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; PERCEPTUAL FUNCTION; POPULATION RECEPTIVE FIELDS; RETINOTOPY; TUNING; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893636956     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4416-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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