题目：Eye tracking and its application in Autism studies

报告人：Quan Wang, Ph.D

Quan  Wang, Ph.D is a Postdoctoral associate at the Yale Child  Study Center. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Computational  Neuroscience from Goethe University Frankfurt, and has a M.S in Computational  Science and B.S in Bioinformatics. She studies machine learning and  computational methods, and has research experience in developmental psychology  and visual attention. Her current research focus on eye tracking innovation and  application, particularly interested in gaze-contingent eye tracking paradigms  and its application in infants and toddlers affected by Autism.

时间：2015年06月12日 星期五 15:00-16:00

地点： 北京大学王克桢楼1115室

Recently, using  eye-tracking, we found that toddlers with ASD as compared to typically  developing and developmentally delayed peers, show diminished responses to a  video of an actress emulating a prototypical bid for dyadic engagement and show  limited attention to activities of others when viewing a naturalistic play  scene. This decreased attention likely expresses not only the culmination of  atypical experience-dependent knowledge regarding scenes and people, but also  suggests future access to observational learning may be limited. Cascading  deficits that may arise when children are deprived of this vital learning route.  In this presentation I will introduce a few projects that uses interactive eye  tracking as a first step towards the development of automated tools that can  help toddlers and young children with atypical visual attention learn to attend  to social information in a more typical fashion with new ways of interacting  with their environment.