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SUMMARY:Social timing in autism spectrum disorders - Dr Christine Falter-W
 agner\, Department of Psychiatry\, LMU Munich
DTSTART:20181109T163000Z
DTEND:20181109T173000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nAnecdotal reports of abnormal experience and managem
 ent of time fuelled recent studies of timing functions and processing of t
 emporal information in autism. In this lecture I summarise studies on temp
 oral processing in autism covering various time ranges and timing function
 s from millisecond timing of visual events and temporal intervals to the s
 ynchrony of motion between interaction partners during communication. Perf
 ormance patterns are characterised by impaired as well as intact and even 
 superior performance in temporal processing tasks\, depending on task dema
 nds and strategies. Importantly\, any deviation from typical processing of
  time is found to be related to symptom severity in communication\, elicit
 ing the idea of an ‘optimal temporal tuning’ of perception to aid soci
 al interaction. Preliminary results of abnormal social synchrony in autism
  will be presented leading on to the conceptualisation of social disembodi
 ment in autism through being ‘out of sync’.\n\nBio: Christine Falter-W
 agner is a clinician-researcher who received her PhD in Experimental Psych
 ology from the University of Cambridge (2008). She then spent several year
 s as postdoctoral fellow at the MEG Unit for Neurodevelopmental Disorders\
 , University of Oxford and as Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University o
 f Groningen. In 2016 she obtained her Habilitation at the Department of Ps
 ychiatry\, University of Cologne and is now Head of the Outpatient Clinic 
 for Autism at the LMU Munich.    \n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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