SCSB Lunch Series with Dr. Lukas Vogelsang: Temporal processing in autistic and non-autistic individuals
April 18 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Date: Friday, April 18, 2025
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Simons Center Conference room 46-6011 + Zoom (https://mit.zoom.us/j/99385139351)
Speaker: Dr. Lukas Vogelsang
Affiliation: Pawan Sinha Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Talk title: Temporal processing in autistic and non-autistic individuals
Abstract: Every developing nervous system confronts its own version of what William James famously described as “one great blooming, buzzing confusion”. Transforming sensory experience into a sensorium of meaningful entities and their inter-relationships lies at the core of perceptual organization. In this talk, I argue that a powerful key to understanding this process may lie in the temporal structure of the sensory environment. I will describe experiments aimed at behaviorally assessing temporal processing in both typical and atypical development, including in autistic individuals. Collectively, these investigations may illuminate temporal processing mechanisms and can help advance our understanding of sensory processing in autism.