On sensory integration and autism, with Kirsty Ainsworth
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English - March 05, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBScience psychology research children development science mental health learning cognition disability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dr. Kirsty Ainsworth is a psychologist and lecturer at University of Glasgow who specialises in autism and sensory perception. During this podcast she chats to Sue about a piece of research on multisensory integration in autism.
You can find out more about Kirsty's work by checking out the site for her former lab in MicGill here, and you can follow her on twitter here.
The paper discussed in this episode is:
Ainsworth, K., Ostrolenk, A., Irion, C., & Bertone, A. (2020). Reduced multisensory facilitation exists at different periods of development in autism. Cortex, 134, 195-206.
Many thanks to Naomi Meiksin for editing the transcript for this episode.