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 The Lab administers several different standardized assessments for diagnosing autism, and evaluating cognitive, neuropsychological and language ability. These assessments may include interviews (e.g., developmental history and current behavior, conducted with parents), structured observations, or age-appropriate standardized testing methods conducted with children or adults.
 Subjects wear a small camera near one eye that is connected to computer monitors specifically designed to track where the subject looks on a computer screen. The subject is then presented with either photographs of people or other pictures. The eye-tracking equipment determines where the subject looked and the length of time the subject's gaze remained focused on that location, thus yielding information about their attention and perception toward computer-presented stimuli such as faces.
To track subjects' autonomic arousal to different stimuli
(e.g., emotional faces), different measures are collected included skin conductance response, heart rate and pulmonary function.
Anatomical and functional imaging methods are used to explore the neurobiology of autism, Williams syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders. To learn more, see the Center for Biomedical Imaging.
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