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Neural underpinnings of language in autism: Prosody, gesture, and embodiment| old_uid | 10265 |
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| title | Neural underpinnings of language in autism: Prosody, gesture, and embodiment |
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| start_date | 2011/10/14 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The autism spectrum disorders (ASD; includes Autistic Disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders) are a set of serious neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in two interrelated domains: social interactions, and language and communication. Our understanding of the origin of language deficits in ASD has long focused on social deficits; many researchers have attributed language delays primarily to the lack of social interest. Recent research from our lab, and others, has complicated this picture. We have demonstrated that language impairments in ASD seem at least partially driven by deficits in very low-level (core) cognitive processes, including 1) strengths in auditory discrimination and 2) deficits in temporal coordination of motor movements (apparent using non-linear dynamic systems methods). We also find differences in brain activity (fMRI) during the processing of purely structural or linguistic aspects of communication, not just social ones. In this talk, I describe past research and present a plan for my Fulbright fellowship, in which I hope to interpret past research to, and collect new data in support of, a model of Embodied Cognition in ASD. |
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| responsibles | Pélissier |
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