As I mentioned at the outset, this is a work in progress, and during
the next few months we're going to be expanding our autism sample and
recruiting a new sample of age- and sex-matched controls. We also want
to examine data from frontal regions, and relate the levels of these
effects to behavioural measures. For the longer term, we've designed a
task to look more explicitly at the attentional phenomenon of late
suppression, and we also want to look at younger ages and at siblings.
`fMRI Evidence for Generalised Arousal as a Substitute for Early Selection in Autism during Conditions of Shifting Visual Spatial Attention', Matthew Belmonte, 10 November 2001