Enhanced Visual Search in Infancy Predicts Emerging Autism Symptoms

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1727-1730

  Gliga, Teodora ^a   Bedford, Rachael ^b   Charman, Tony ^b   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^c   Bolton, Patrick ^c   Cheung, Celeste ^b   Liew, Michelle ^b   Gammer, Issy ^b   Salomone, Erica ^b   Pasco, Greg ^b   Pickles, Andrew ^b   Davies, Kim ^a   Maris, Helen ^a   Ribeiro, Helen ^a   Tucker, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPETITE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AUTISTIC DISORDER; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84937526107     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

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