Bottom-up attention orienting in young children with autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 664-673

  Amso, Dima ^a   Haas, Sara ^a   Tenenbaum, Elena ^a,b   Markant, Julie ^a   Sheinkopf, Stephen J ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Bottom up attention; Eye tracking; Saliency; Social attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894353935     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-013-1925-5     Document Type: Article

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