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• For a comprehensive collection of slides, but no audio, download the 26/11/2011 Autism Society of West Bengal lecture.
• For an abridged treatment of the above, focussing on relevance to communication therapy, with audio as well as slides, download the 21/11/2011 Comm DEALL Bangalore lecture.
• For a complete overview with slides and audio, download the January 2011 Hyderabad lecture series.
Teaching and Learning from Students with Autism
Open Mind,
Thrissur
21 December 2016
Autism Theories and Therapies
V-Excel Centre for Research and Rehabilitation, Shastri Nagar, Chennai
24 March 2012
Autism as Scientist and Son
V-Excel Trust, Mandaveli, Chennai
17 March 2012
Autism: Assumptions of Synchrony and Simultaneity Underlie (Therapists’) Deficits in Perspective-Taking
Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai
13 March 2012
Understanding Autistic Brains Shows How to Work with (and not against) Autistic Minds
WE CAN, Blue Beach, Chennai
11 March 2012
How Teachers Change Brains
V-Excel Trust, Mandaveli, Chennai
10 March 2012
Biological and Cultural Determinants of Autism, from Genes to Neural Information Processing to Behaviour
Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
3 February 2012
आितस्तिक् मसाला: Biology’s Interaction with Cultural and Social Context, from End to End of the Autism Spectrum
Ummeed Child Development Centre, Mumbai
14 January 2012
Autism Susceptibilities Underlie Broader Human Cognitive Variation,
from Genes to Synapses to Behaviour
“Frontiers in Neuroscience and Genetics,”
Manovikas Kendra Rehabilitation and Research Institute for the Handicapped, Kolkata
23 December 2011
Autism Theory and Therapies
Autism Society of West Bengal, Kolkata
26 November 2011
Pecha Kucha Night
American Centre, Delhi
23 November 2011
Electroencephalography in Pædiatric Age Groups and its Clinical Utility
11th Biennial National Conference of the Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health,
St John’s Medical College, Bangalore
16 November 2011
Genes for Autism, Genes for Engineering: How Ability and Disability Come in the Same Package
UDBHAAS Child Development Centre,
Paikpara, Kolkata
5 November 2011
Connecting Autism
India Habitat Centre, Delhi
1 November 2011
Perceptual Integration in Autism: Physiological Theory, Behavioural Observation, and Therapeutic Intervention
29th Annual Meeting of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences, Delhi
31 October 2011
The Autism Spectrum as a Source of Cognitive and Cultural Diversity
International Conference on Transcultural Psychiatry
Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences,
24 September 2011
Autism and Asperger Syndrome at the Intersection of Biology and Culture
Indian Association of Biomedical Scientists (Kolkata chapter)
KPC Medical College, Jadavpur, Kolkata,
20 August 2011
“Neuroimaging — Experimental Design and Analysis Tools”
Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad,
22-23 July 2011
Is the Science of Autism the Science of Human Cognitive Diversity?
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University
23 June 2011
Categorical and Dimensional Autistic Traits, and Global and Local Network Entropies: Cognitive and Neural Variation within and beyond the Autism Spectrum
Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
18 May 2011
The Quintessence of Humanity in Autistic Genes, Brains, and Minds
National Conference on Autism,
Institute For Communicative And Cognitive Neurosciences,
Shoranur, Kerala
2 April 2011
Variations in Neural Information Processing Determine Cognitive Type within and beyond the Autism Spectrum
Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Biotechnology,
Cochin University of Science and Technology
28 March 2011
Cognitive Neurophysiology of Autism
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala
28 March 2011
· Significance-Testing Physiological Time Series with Resampling Statistics
· Fundamentals of Cognitive Electroencephalography
· Event-Related Data Analysis: A Practical Tutorial Using EEGLAB
Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad
3-5 February 2011
Harnessing Within-Group Variance to Understand Autistic Neurophysiology and Cognition
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
2 February 2011
What the Neurophysiology of Autism Tells Us about the Nature of Mental Representation
Centre for Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University
1 February 2011
Physiological Indicators of Low Level of Construal Unify Social and Non-Social Autistic Cognitive Traits: fMRI, EEG and Behavioural Studies
International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognitive Science,
Department of Psychology, Banares Hindu University
19 December 2010
Understanding Human Cognitive Variation within and beyond the Autism Spectrum — a Paradigm for the Multivariate Cognitive Neuroscience of the Twenty-First Century
International Conference on Cognitive Development,
Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences,
University of Allahabad
13 December 2010
Neuroimaging of Brain-Behaviour Correlations within and beyond the Autism Spectrum: Common Substrates for Social and Non-Social Cognitive Skills
5th Congress of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Neuroscience Societies, Lucknow
28 November 2010
The Autism Spectrum as Clinical Disease and as Human Diversity
Centre for Studies in Science Policy,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
10 November 2010
Autism, Part and Parcel of Human Cognitive Diversity
British Psychological Society (Developmental Psychology Section),
London
14 September 2010
Autism Is a Foundation of Human Cognitive Diversity
Program in Neuroscience, Tulane University
9 September 2010
Human Cognitive Diversity within and beyond the Autism Spectrum
The Groden Center,
Providence, Rhode Island
18 August 2010
Dimensional and Emergent Aspects of Human Cognitive Variation within and beyond the Autism Spectrum
New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities,
Staten Island, New York
17 August 2010
Behavioural and Neural Variation within and beyond the Autism Spectrum:
Perceptual Detail, Cognitive Distance, and Human Diversity
Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities,
Vanderbilt University
10 May 2010
What People with Autism Spectrum Conditions Can Teach Us about How to Teach Them
‘Mind and Body in Autism,’ 4th Annual Conference,
Columbia University Teachers College
16 April 2010
Autism as a Science and Autism in the Family, a Case of Weak Coherence
Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore
15 April 2010
All Too Human: The Autism Spectrum and Human Cognitive Diversity
1st Annual Distinguished Lecture on Autism, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore
15 April 2010
Computer Game Environments for Ecologically Valid Cognitive Testing
(or How to Study Complex Traits and Disorders by Playing Lots of Video Games)
Department of Psychology,
University of Reading
28 January 2010
Between Two Cultures: Autism in the Family and Autism as a Science
Action for Autism, Delhi, India
24 January 2010
What Research Can Tell Us about Autism, and about Humanity
Tamana School of Hope, Delhi, India
23 January 2010
How We Can Teach People with Autism, and How They Can Teach Us
Tamana School of Hope, Delhi, India
22 January 2010
Using Behaviour and Physiology to Characterise Familial Autism Risk and Resistance
Children First, Delhi, India
20 January 2010
Frontal Lobe Physiology and Autistic Traits within and beyond the Autism Phenotype
National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, India
18 January 2010
Linking Behavioural, Physiological and Molecular Aspects of Familial Autism Risk and Resistance
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
15 January 2010
Human, but More So: What Autism Science and Autistic People Can Teach Us
Manovikas Kendra Rehabilitation and Research Institute for the Handicapped,
Kolkata, India
7 January 2010
Harnessing Population Variance to Link Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics in Familial Autism Risk and Resistance Factors
Manovikas Kendra Rehabilitation and Research Institute for the Handicapped,
Kolkata, India
6 January 2010
“Autism from Childhood to Adulthood” (panelist)
Penn State Public Broadcasting, Pennsylvania State University
25 March 2009
Autistic Neural Information Processing is ‘All in the Family’
Società Italiana per la Ricerca e la Formazione sull’Autismo, Milano
28 November 2008
Behavioural and Physiological Phenotypes in Autism Families
Fondazione Santa Lucia, Roma,
25 November 2008
Bringing the Laboratory to Life:
Computer Games as a Tool to Understand and to Develop Autistic Brain Function
in Naturalistic Contexts
Associazione Genitori Soggetti con Autismo, Veneto
22 November 2008
Family Connections: Brain Wiring in Autistic and ‘Unaffected’ Sibs
Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
13 November 2008
What is Autism? Clinical Phenotypes
Autism Speaks, Santa Monica, California
1 June 2008
Designing Serious Video Games for Autism Research and Treatment
Department of Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
11 April 2008
Real Skills in Imaginary Worlds:
Using Video Games to Measure Cognition and Physiology in Autism Families
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
26 March 2008
Video Game Play as an Ecologically Valid Measure of Autistic Behaviour and
Physiology
BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts
10 October 2007
Fictive Worlds Bring Out Real Skills:
Video Game Environments for Assessing Autistic Cognition
Program in Interactive Media and Game Development,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
27 September 2007
Neural Connectivity, Narrative Connectivity, and the ‘Thing Itself’ in Autistic Perceptual and Cognitive Experience
“Narrative Alternatives to Theories of Mind”, University of Hertfordshire
15 July 2007
Who in a Susceptible Family Becomes Autistic? Connectivity in Genes, Neurones, and Cognition
Institut Pasteur
29 June 2007
Autistic Neural Information Processing, from Attention to Social Cognition
Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 April 2007
Connecting Social and Non-social Phenotypes to Neural Models of Autism Susceptibility
International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
5 March 2007
Neural and Narrative Connectivity in Autistic Perceptual Experience
Humanities Center, Harvard University
5 April 2006
Altered Neural Information Processing in Autism: Developmental Causes and Developmental Consequences
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
4 October 2005
What Makes a Brain Autistic? Developmental Endpoints in Functional Neuroanatomy
Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée / Trends in Neurosciences 4th annual meeting, La Ciotat, France
6 September 2005
Text, Mind, and Meaning: The Autistic Brain and What It Tells Us about the Process of Narrative
Hampshire College
21 February 2005
“Autism in Twentieth Century America” (guest lecture)
Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
2-4 November 2004 & 7 February 2006
Autism and Art
Risley College, Cornell University
3 November 2004
Autism as a Disorder of Neural Connectivity
4th International Congress on Genetics and Regeneration in Neuroscience, Terni, Italy
28 June 2004
Research into the Neurocognitive Aspects of Autism
Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, Boston
23 March 2004
Neurophysiological Studies of Selective Attention in Autism
National Autistic Society, London
28 October 2002
Imaging Altered Information Processing in Autism
Child Study Center, Yale University
14 February 2003
The Centre Cannot Hold: Unifying the Many Aspects of the Autism Phenotype
Cure Autism Now, Santa Monica, California
April 2002
Physiological Studies of Attention in Autism: Implications for Autistic Cognition and Behaviour
Cure Autism Now, Santa Monica
January 2002
Attention and Specialisation of Function in the Autistic Brain
Cure Autism Now, Illinois Chapter
September 1999
Brain Structure and Function Yield Clues to the Nature of Autism
The Autism Society of Greater Philadelphia
July 1997
A Practical Introduction to the Synthesiser Generator
The Polytechnic of Central London
September 1990