Late Positive Potential ERP Responses to Social and Nonsocial Stimuli in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3068-3077

  Benning, Stephen D ^a   Kovac, Megan ^b   Campbell, Alana ^c   Miller, Stephanie ^d   Hanna, Eleanor K ^e   Damiano, Cara R ^c,f   Sabatino DiCriscio, Antoinette ^f,g   Turner Brown, Lauren ^h   Sasson, Noah J ⁱ   Aaron, Rachel V ^j   Kinard, Jessica ^c   Dichter, Gabriel S ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^g Geisinger Bucknell Autism and Developmental Medicine Center   (United States)

^h UNC TEACCH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^j VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Late positive potential; Motivation; Restricted interests; Social

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL COGNITION; VALENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MOTIVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84976277525     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-016-2845-y     Document Type: Article

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