Tunnel vision: sharper gradient of spatial attention in autism.

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Published in J Neurosci on April 17, 2013

Authors

Caroline E Robertson1, Dwight J Kravitz, Jan Freyberg, Simon Baron-Cohen, Chris I Baker

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. caroline.robertson@nih.gov

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