Jon Brock

Username: Jon Brock

Participant details

	Network Member	Jon Brock
	Organisation/Institution	Macquarie University
	Department/Centre	MACCS
	Lab
	Website	http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.html?memberID=203
	Research area	Developmental Disorders
	Research keywords	autism, language impairment, speech, semantics, phonology, eye-movements, MEG

Research Interests

My research focuses on developmental disorders, including autism, Williams syndrome, and Down syndrome. I am currently working on an ARC project entitled “Cognitive and neural causes of language impairment in autism”. One thread of this project considers the hypothetical link between language difficulties, context-processing, and neural connectivity in autism. Together with Prof Kate Nation (Oxford), I am using eye-tracking to test claims that individuals with autism fail to process words in context. With Dr Blake Johnson (Macquarie), I am conducting an MEG study of the neural basis of semantic context effects. A second thread explores the overlap between autism and specific language impairment. With Dr Lisa Archibald (Western Ontario), I aim to determine whether children with autism fail nonword repetition tasks for the same reasons as those with SLI. With Dr Genevieve McArthur (Macquarie) and Prof Christiana Leonard (Florida), I will investigate auditory brain responses and structural differences in auditory cortex in the two disorders.

Representative Publications

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T24-4T5HJ4C-1&_user=6371139&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000002378&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=6371139&md5=03e516182c13921277e09a253391a633

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=652592

Publications page: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/members/profile.html?memberID=203

Member for: 1 years 11 months 3 weeks 6 days