Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 23-34 , January 2011

Covert processing of facial expressions by people with Williams syndrome

  • Yonata Levy

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.
    • ,
  • Hadas Pluber

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Shlomo Bentin

      Affiliations

    • Psychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    • The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 23 April 2008 ,Revised 22 July 2009 ,Accepted 24 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.09.011

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Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 23-34 , January 2011

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