Potentials

Thesis: Methods and Results for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Visual Selective Attention: A Foundation for Investigating Autism. basic research on attention and perceptual/cognitive/motor control associated with autism and autistic traits, and translational research on communication therapy. Mentor junior colleagues on EEG/ERP study design, data acquisition and analysis, and proposal writing. Teach biological psychology, experimental behavioural research methods, clinical neuropsychology. Supervise and mentor undergraduate and postgraduate project students, doctoral students and research assistants. international student India. Develop a research emphasis integrated within a nonprofit clinical centre for autism. Deliver training on evidence-based therapies, for autism clinicians, educators and caregivers. Build local research capacity by validating local quantitive clinical assessments against international standards. Supervise clinical research on motor skills as developmental basis and therapeutic target in autism. Supervise and mentor one postdoctoral researcher. Behavioural studies of the relationship between motor and communicative impairments in autism, and of perception, cognition, and social scaffolding in people with Asperger syndrome in South Asian cultural context.