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1. 16. Joint Attention in Development : Insights from Children with Autism and Infant Siblings

   Författare :Emilia Thorup; Terje Falck-Ytter; Gustaf Gredebäck; Peter Mundy; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Joint Attention; Gaze following; Alternating gaze; Social cognition; Eye tracking; Infant siblings; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Compared to other children, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are known to engage less in joint attention - the sharing of attention between two individuals toward a common object or event. Joint attention behaviors - for example gaze following, alternating gaze, and pointing - play an important role in early development, as they provide a foundation for learning and social interaction. LÄS MER

3. 17. Litteracitet och visuella texter : Studier om lärare och kortutbildade deltagare i sfi

   Författare :Qarin Franker; Monica Axelsson; Yvonne Eriksson; Christopher Stroud; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adult basic literacy education; election posters; literacies; model reader; multimodality; reading paths; repertoire; second language; social semiotics; Swedish language programme for immigrants sfi ; visual texts; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet; Education in Languages and Language Development; utbildningsvetenskap med inriktning mot språk och språkutveckling;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge concerning the adult basic literacy education in the Nordic countries and broaden research on literacy from its traditional focus on verbal texts to include images and visual texts. The thesis comprises a research survey concerning adult literacy and two empirical, exploratory studies focusing on the use of visual texts in the basic Swedish language programme for adult immigrants, Svenskundervisning för invandrare (sfi). LÄS MER

4. 18. Biases in Visual Selective Attention : Trait Anxious Individuals Avert Their Gaze From Unpleasant Stimuli

   Författare :Jean-Christophe Rohner; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; eye-movements; attentional biases; Anxiety; attention; Psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Cognitive models of anxiety postulate that anxious individuals are inclined to pay more attention to negative than to positive emotional visual stimuli. The main aim of the present dissertation was to test this prediction, employing a measure of the direction of gaze. LÄS MER

5. 19. Effects of visual load on auditory processing

   Författare :Malina Szychowska; Stefan Wiens; Mats E. Nilsson; Maria Larsson; Inga Griskova-Bulanova; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EEG; event-related potential; mismatch negativity; auditory steady-state response; envelope following response; perceptual load; visual load; task difficulty; crossmodal attention; early-filter theory; adaptive filtering model; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : In daily life, people need to be able to focus on a task while ignoring any task-irrelevant background noise. For example, people who work in an open-space office may have to work on a report while ignoring the background talk among co-workers. LÄS MER

7. 20. Reaching for Excellence? : Does training improve motor abilities and cause cascading effects in the visual attention and social perception domain?

   Författare :Linda van den Berg; Gustaf Gredebäck; Pär Nyström; Erik Domellöf; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Early Motor Training; Sticky Mittens; Infants; Motor Development; Reaching; Grasping; Social Perception; Visual Attention; Psychology; Psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : claimed in the last 20 years. Being able to reach for objects provides infants with an interactive interface with their environment. After reach onset, objects can be explored closer to the face and manipulated. Social perception abilities and visual attention have both been found to relate to motor development. LÄS MER