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Currently,
our lab is involved in a number of different research projects focusing
on autism, specific language impairment and Williams syndrome. Our
research is funded through grants from the National Institutes of
Health and private foundations. We conduct some of our studies in
collaboration with colleagues at other institutions including Tufts/New
England Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard
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| This project, directed
by Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., investigates language deficits found
in autism using experimental approaches. |
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| This project, directed
by Robert Joseph, Ph.D., focuses on the entire range of face perception
abilities in autism, with a particular focus on children’s processing
of mouths versus eyes, using behavioral, eye-tracking and physiological
measures. |
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| This project, directed
by Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., explores the way adolescents and adults
with Williams syndrome attend to, perceive, and process social information
using behavioral, physiological, and eye-tracking methods. |
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| The Child and Family
Project, directed by Alice Carter, Ph.D., and Helen Tager-Flusberg,
Ph.D., explores developmental changes in children with autism and
their effect on parents and families. |
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| This project, directed
by Nouchine Hadjikhani, M.D., at MGH, uses MRI and fMRI to investigate
the neural mechanisms related to language and social-communicative
dysfunction in autism. |
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| This pilot study,
directed by Helen Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., will investigate very early
developmental patterns of young infants with a family history of autism
spectrum disorders, and identify risk factors for developing an autism
spectrum disorder or language-based learning disorder. |
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| This study, directed
by principal investigators Daniela Plesa Skwerer, Ph.D. and Helen
Tager-Flusberg, Ph.D., involves young children with Williams syndrome
and Down syndrome. We are interested in exploring the relations between
early social experience, especially in the family, and children’s
ability to express and regulate their emotions and behavior. In particular,
we are interested in exploring how children’s temperament, attachment
bonds, and style of interaction with parents and peers may contribute
to later social competence, such as the ability to empathize with
others, and to respond appropriately in emotionally charged situations. |
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