These findings of hyper-arousal and dysfunctional early selection are the result of some experiments with electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
I'm going to start by describing our original EEG study of shifting attention.
That work led to some questions about functional anatomy, which we answered using fMRI.
To wrap up, I'll talk about how all of this bears on the development of autism, and how I hope to follow up.

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`Physiological Studies of Attention in Autism: Implications for Autistic Cognition and Behaviour', Matthew Belmonte, 26 January 2002