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Project

It takes two to tango: Third-person and second-person perspective neuroscientific approaches to social interaction in autism spectrum disorder
Code
01D34818
Duration
01 October 2018 → 31 July 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology not elsewhere classified
    • Applied psychology not elsewhere classified
    • Neuroimaging
    • General psychology not elsewhere classified
    • Human experimental psychology not elsewhere classified
    • Social psychology not elsewhere classified
    • Sexology
Keywords
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) social interaction ecological validity temporoparietal junction (TPJ) fNIRS hyperscanning
 
Project description

Deficits in social interaction are core to ASD, but strikingly little neurocognitive research has focused on social interactions in ASD. Here, we will study brain activity (with special focus on TPJ) in adults with and without ASD when watching others socially interact by means of fMRI, and when participating in real-time social interaction by means of fNIRS hyperscanning.