CCF Speaker Series James Todd Ph.D. 9-5-2014

The Emergence of Social Attention: Typical and Atypical Trajectories of Attention and Intersensory Processing James Todd, Ph.D. Attention and perception of social events in infancy is thought to promote the typical development of social, cognitive, and language functioning. Children with autism spectrum disorders show impairments in attention and intersensory processing of social events. The rise of disorders of attention, such as autism, highlights the need for characterizing developmental trajectories of attention and intersensory processing skills and for developing fine-grained individual difference measures to better assess relations with cognitive, social, and language functioning. In this talk I will present two exciting, new individual difference measures that can be used to assess the development of multiple attention and intersensory processing skills, as well as relations with social, cognitive, and language skills, in both typically and atypically developing populations.

James Todd Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Florida International University

9/5/2014 4:00:00 PM