Equivalent neural responses in children and adolescents with and without autism during judgments of affect

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 121-130

  Vander Wyk, Brent C ^a   Hoffman, Ferdinand ^b   Pelphrey, Kevin A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autism; Connectivity; Emotion; fMRI; Self referential processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL POLE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AUTISM; CONNECTIVITY; EMOTION; FMRI; SELF-REFERENTIAL PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84897115502     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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