Adolescents
and Adults with Williams Syndrome aged 12 - 35
Over the past few years, we have been exploring social understanding
in children and adults with Williams syndrome. Our findings from this
previous work point to an interesting mix of strengths and difficulties
in their social abilities, prompting us to explore further the ways
in which people with Williams syndrome understand other people.
Help us learn more about autism,
human development, and the way our brains process language
and social information! Click here to let us know you'd
like to participate in one of our exciting research studies.
In our current research program, we are focusing our work on how adolescents
and adults with Williams syndrome pay attention to and process social
information. To study this, we ask our participants to complete a
brief cognitive assessment as well as a number of fun and easy activities,
most of which involve looking at pictures of people or other scenes
on a computer and pushing buttons on a box placed in front of them.
The following are some of the questions we would like to answer through
our work:
How do people with Williams syndrome evaluate the emotions of
others as expressed in static faces and more realistic dynamic
scenes?
How do people with Williams syndrome respond physiologically
to emotionally charged pictures?
How do people with Williams Syndrome pay attention to and process
social cues and emotional states?
Where do people with Williams Syndrome look when shown pictures
of faces or social scenes?
We conduct our studies at Boston University School of Medicine. Appointments
are scheduled at your convenience. We will cover your transportation
and parking costs, and offer gifts or payment to our participants.
For more information about this study
please contact Lisa
Lindeke
wmsproj@bu.edu
