Understanding Attentional Strengths and Weaknesses in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Description: Project Narrative The proposed research is relevant to public health because differences in non-social attentional functions have been identified as among the earliest features that distinguish infants who develop autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and may play a critical role in the development of core ASD symptoms. Thus, the proposed research is relevant to NIH's mission because it is expected to lead to the identification of the neurofunctional mechanisms underlying these atypicalities, and thus can be expected to provide insights into how these processes contribute to development of core social and communicative deficits and inform early biomedical and behavioral markers and/or interventions that may ameliorate core symptoms of ASD.
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R21
Start date: 2018-05-07
End date: 2022-03-31
Investigator: BRANDON KEEHN
Institution: PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Funded outputs count: 8
Funder award ID: R21MH114095
OpenAlex ID: G22197818