Low endogenous neural noise in autism

Autism

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 351-362

  Davis, Greg ^a   Plaisted Grant, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autism; endogenous noise; hyperphasic; locus coeruleus; neural networks; stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN STEM; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 84924977203     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: 14617005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361314552198     Document Type: Article

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