News and Updates

So many ways to score the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, but which is the best? This review paper compares the statistical properties of the several different factor structures of the popular Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001).

Happy New Year! In December last year, a few us attended the Australasian Society for Autism Research (ASfAR) Conference hosted by Griffith University in the sunny Gold Coast, Queensland. Our team presented a broad range of research covering early predictors (e.g.,...

To cap off an already successful year, Murray was successful in securing a Discovery Project grant in the most recent funding round from the Australian Research Council. The successful application was by no means a solo effort, and congratulations are extended to...

It was recently announced that Dr Diana Tan, a post-doc in the CANlab, has been awarded the BrightSpark Research Collaboration Award from the Raine Medical Foundation. The award is one of several provided by the foundation each year to assist early career researchers...

Congratulations to Claire Mitchell (soon-to-be PhD!) In July, the lab celebrated PhD student Claire Mitchell reaching the very significant milestone of submitting her thesis for examination. However, we have recently heard the good news that the board of the UWA...

In May, several of the CANlab crew traveled to the Netherlands to take part in the annual International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) conference. Murray, Diana and myself attended the meeting and listened to researchers from across the world present some of...