Luca Ronconi | The deployment of visual attention in autism spectrum disorder: Insights from different experimental approaches
Gastvortrag
- Datum: 10.11.2015
- Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:00
- Vortragende(r): Luca Ronconi
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
- Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
- Raum: Seminarraum Bibliothek
- Gastgeber: Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe "Neuronale Mechanismen zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation"
One of the main challenges in the current research in autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) is to define the early neurocognitive impairments that
provide critical foundations for the core deficits in social and
communication abilities. This is particularly relevant in order to
improve the early detection of the condition and to implement early
training programs that can alleviate the symptomatology. Early
attentional dysfunctions are among the candidate mechanisms that can
play a critical role in the emergence of ASD. In this talk I will
present the results of my research activities of the past 5 years, which
aimed at a better characterization of the altered visual attention in
ASD and its possible neural underpinnings. In particular, we used
different experimental approaches such as psychophysics,
electroencephalography and neurostimulation to investigate the ability
to distribute attentional resources in the visual field and to select
relevant vs. irrelevant information both in typically developing
individuals and in individuals with ASD. Overall, our results showed the
importance of basic (non-social) attentional impairments in the core
manifestations of ASD and in its developmental course.