PhD StudentCenter for Cognitive Brain Imaging
Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
schipul@cmu.edu
Research Interests I am using fMRI to study the brain activation and synchronization during learning and social processes in autism. My first year project explored the neural learning processes in autism during a social task. A second study explored the neural correlates of individuals with autism and matched controls while they used face and context information to make trustworthiness judgments. A third study explored the ability of the brain to adapt with learning in autism during a spatial working memory task. I am currently designing a final study to explore neural adaptations to learning in different tasks in autism.