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Keehn, Brandon; Lincoln, Alan J.; Muller, Ralph-Axel; Townsend, Jeanne – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit lifelong abnormalities in the adaptive allocation of visual attention. The ubiquitous nature of attentional impairments in ASD has led some authors to hypothesize that atypical attentional modulation may be a factor in the development of higher-level sociocommunicative…
Descriptors: Autism, Attention, Intelligence Quotient, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Grezes, J.; Wicker, B.; Berthoz, S.; de Gelder, B. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
The ability to grasp emotional messages in everyday gestures and respond to them is at the core of successful social communication. The hypothesis that abnormalities in socio-emotional behavior in people with autism are linked to a failure to grasp emotional significance conveyed by gestures was explored. We measured brain activity using fMRI…
Descriptors: Autism, Affective Behavior, Brain, Cognitive Processes