Inflectional morphology in high-functioning autism: Evidence for speeded grammatical processing

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1607-1621

  Walenski, Matthew ^a   Mostofsky, Stewart H ^b,c   Ullman, Michael T ^d  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Basal ganglia; Language; Morphology; Past tense; Procedural memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; RESPONSE TIME;

EID: 84908455035     PISSN: 17509467     EISSN: 18780237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rasd.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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