Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception: Moving Toward an Understanding of Autism

People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pelphrey, Kevin ^a   Shultz, Sarah ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Autism spectrum disorder; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri); Genetic etiology; Phenotypic expression; Social brain network; Social perception; Superior temporal sulcus (sts)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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