题目：Hypo-arousal or hyperarousal? The mechanisms underlying social information processing in autism.

            过低唤醒还是过高唤醒？孤独症社会信息加工的机制

报告人：易莉教授   

时间：2024年3月29日下午15：00

地点：学术报告厅

个人简介：

现任北京大学心理与认知科学学院研究员、北京大学麦戈文脑研究所研究员，博士生导师。易莉研究员于2003年毕业于北京大学心理学系，获学士学位。2007年获美国杜克大学心理与神经科学系发展心理学硕士学位，2009获该系博士学位。2009年6月加入中山大学心理学系，先后担任讲师及副教授。2015年2月入职北京大学心理与认知科学学院）。她多年来致力于孤独症领域的研究，针对孤独症儿童的核心障碍及其认知机制展开了一系列研究。她主持多项国家自然科学基金项目，取得了重要的原创性成果，以第一或者通信作者在国际重要期刊发表40余篇论文。她入选国家“万人计划”青年拔尖人才计划（2019）和世界经济论坛青年科学家（2020）。并获得了教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（青年成果奖）。

内容简介：

Autistic children tend to show divergent social information processing, and controversies exist regarding the mechanisms underlying this processing. In this talk, I will summarize and categorize the current theories and evidence related to hypo- and hyperarousal accounts of social information processing in autism. The hypo-arousal account proposes reduced motivation or sensitivity to process social information and is supported by behavioral, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging studies. Recent evidence has challenged this account, highlighting the role of eye gaze in interpreting the hypo-brain activation. The hyperarousal account posits that social context could evoke anxiety and discomfort in autistic children, which could interfere with their social information processing and result in social avoidance. Most research in this field has studied children and adolescents, but some studies have included adults since autism is a lifelong condition. I will highlight the importance of considering the heterogeneity of arousal patterns in autistic children when developing individualized supporting protocols.