Researchers study attention mechanisms of autistic children
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 17:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical social information. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine report their results in the March 29 online issue of Nature.
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