Mind Games: Psychologists Use fMRI to Study Autism-Learning Connection

People with autism can be highly intelligent, but the way their brains work when they learn may be distinctly different from those without the disorder.

This difference is the focus of a cutting-edge research project under way by Drs. Mark and Laura Klinger of UA's psychology department.

The Klingers, who are both principal investigators in the study, are trying to better understand the ways in which persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, their parents, and those without ASD, learn and remember new information. The Klingers hope to gain this understanding by studying brain activity patterns through fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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