Impaired learning of social compared to monetary rewards in autism
A leading hypothesis to explain the social dysfunction in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is that they exhibit a deficit in reward processing and motivation specific to social stimuli.  However, there have been few direct tests of this hypothesis to date.  Here we used...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2012.00143/full |