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Inge-Marie Eigsti

Title: Professor of Clinical Psychology; Director of Research, Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Institution: University

Discipline: Philosophy & Ethics

Appearances: 1

Notable: Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2019); over 100 peer-reviewed publications; NIH R01 grant for autism language research; doctoral degrees in clinical psychology and brain and cognitive sciences from University of Rochester

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Biography

Inge-Marie Eigsti is a clinical psychologist whose research centers on language, communication, and brain development in autism, addressing how complex behavioral constructs such as social communication abilities are linked to mechanistic neurocognitive processes. She directs the Connecticut Autism and Language Lab (CALL) and leads an NIH R01-funded study unraveling the complexities of language abilities in individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

Sample Works

Language acquisition in autism spectrum disorders: A developmental review (2011) Paper
Beyond pragmatics: Morphosyntactic development in autism (2007) Paper
The neural underpinnings of prosody in autism (2012) Paper
Language comprehension and brain function in individuals with an optimal outcome from autism (2016) Paper

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