Paternal autistic traits are predictive of infants visual attention

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1556-1564

  Ronconi, Luca ^a   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b   Bulf, Hermann ^c   Franchin, Laura ^a,d   Bettoni, Roberta ^a   Valenza, Eloisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broader autism phenotype; Frontoparietal network; Right temporoparietal junction; Social brain development; Spatial attention; Temporal attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PARENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; VISUAL ATTENTION; CHILD; FATHER; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; FATHERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84903698172     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-013-2018-1     Document Type: Article

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