Publications related to Neurodiversity

“It Is Not the Robot Who Learns, It Is Me.” Treating Severe Dysgraphia Using Child–Robot Interaction

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Thibault Lucien Christian Asselborn, David Cohen

Writing disorders are frequent and impairing. However, social robots may help to improve children's motivation and to propose enjoyable and tailored activities. Here, we have used the Co-writer scenario in which a child is asked to teach a robot how to wri ...

2021

Early life adoption shows rearing environment supersedes transgenerational effects of paternal stress on aggressive temperament in the offspring

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Guillaume Poirier

Prenatal experience and transgenerational influences are increasingly recognized as critical for defining the socio-emotional system, through the development of social competences and of their underlying neural circuitries. Here, we used an established rat ...

2021

Visual masking & schizophrenia

Michael Herzog

Visual masking is a frequently used tool in schizophrenia research. Visual masking has a very high sensitivity and specificity and masking paradigms have been proven to be endophenotypes. Whereas masking is a powerful technique to study schizophrenia, the ...

2015

Social orienting of children with autism to facial expressions and speech: a study with a wearable eye-tracker in naturalistic settings

Aude Billard, Patrick Jermann, Basilio Noris, Silvia Magrelli

This study investigates attention orienting to social stimuli in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) during dyadic social interactions taking place in real-life settings. We study the effect of social cues that differ in complexity and distingui ...

Frontiers Media2013

Comparing the neural bases of self-referential processing in typically developing and 22q11.2 adolescents

Roy Salomon, Maude Schneider

The investigation of self-reflective processing during adolescence is relevant, as this period is characterized by deep reorganization of the self-concept. It may be the case that an atypical development of brain regions underlying self-reflective processi ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

The role of the amygdala in emotional memories : a multidisciplinary approach

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Kamila Markram

This thesis investigates the role of the amygdala for the establishment of fear memories with a multidisciplinary approach, including behavioural, psychopharmacological, genetic, molecular, and electrophysiological techniques in rats or mice, under healthy ...

EPFL2007