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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Matthew K. Belmonte

  2. Center for Brain and Behavior Research, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Yoram S. Bonneh

  3. Rehovot, Israel

    Yael Adini

  4. Autism Speaks, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Portia E. Iversen

  5. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Natacha A. Akshoomoff

  6. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Tal Kenet

  7. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Christopher I. Moore

  8. Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Helen J. Simon

  9. Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    John F. Houde

  10. Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Michael M. Merzenich

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Belmonte, M.K., Bonneh, Y.S., Adini, Y. et al. Autism Overflows with Syntheses. Neuropsychol Rev 19, 273–274 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-009-9099-9

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