Functional Anatomy of
Compensatory Processing in
Autistic Attention:
Complementary Roles of
Selection and Suppression
Matthew Belmonte and Deborah Yurgelun-Todd
Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory,
McLean Hospital
Last year at IMFAR I told you about some physiological findings suggesting that
attention in autism is implemented more by generalised arousal than by
selective activation of relevant perceptual systems.
Today I'd like to expand on that result, and also to try to frame these
findings in the larger context of the development of autistic cognition.
`Functional Anatomy of Compensatory Processing in Autistic Attention: Complementary Roles of Selection and Suppression', Matthew Belmonte, 1 November 2002
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