06/09/2011 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
3535 Market Street, 16th Floor, Room E, Philadelphia PA 19104
Center for Autism Research (CAR)
Distinguished Lecture Series Presents
Mark Strauss, Ph.D.
Director, Infant and Toddler Center
Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh
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When:
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Refreshments and networking at 3:30pm
Where:
3535 Market Street
16th Floor, Room E
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Please RSVP to hold your seat
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Accreditation Statement
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is accredited by The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
APA Accreditation Statement
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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"The importance of implicit cognitive processes to understanding autism: categorization and the development of facial knowledge"
Dr. Mark Strauss conducts research on the early development of perceptual and cognitive abilities in infants and children. His current work focuses on how children learn basic information about categories and faces during their infancy and preschool years.
Dr. Strauss is the Principal Investigator of a research grant from the National Institutes of Health that is studying differences in the cognitive abilities of individuals with autism. This research studies both infants at risk for autism as well as older children and adults who have been diagnosed with the disorder.
In this lecture, Dr. Strauss will discuss implicit mental processes associated with abilities such as categorization and the development of expertise. Categorization is critically important, and it is evident that within the first year of life typical infants begin to form categories. It reduces demands on memory and allows individuals to focus on important aspects of objects and ignore irrelevant details. Categorization is also important to how we come to understand social information, especially how we learn information about faces including the abilities to recognize people and perceive facial information such as emotion, gender, and attractiveness.
If individuals with autism differ in their abilities to categorize early in life, it is possible that these differences could make a significant contribution to the social, communication, and behavioral deficits that are core features of autism. This talk will discuss Dr. Strauss's developmental research with both children and adults who have autism and with infants who are at a genetic risk of developing autism.
This lecture is intended for faculty, employees and students at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Anyone interested in learning about autism is also welcome to attend.
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Upon completion of this lecture, participants will be able to:
- Understand how the mental process of categorization develops in infancy
- Discuss the roles of categorization in understanding social information
- Discuss the mental process of categorization as it relates to autism
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