Author Archives: Clare Harrop

Our paper “Visual Attention to Faces: Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder” was recently accepted for publication in Molecular Autism. In this study, we used eye tracking to quantify visual attention to faces within scenes that varied in their social richness (we characterized them as socially lean and socially rich)....

Dr Harrop was part of a team of researchers recently awarded a UNC Pilot Sleep Grant to study family management of sleep problems in Down Syndrome. The study will be led by Dr. Marcia Van Riper in the School of Nursing.

Undergraduate research assistant, Emma McQueen, has been awarded an Autism Science Foundation Undergraduate Summer Research Grant. Emma will be funded over the summer to work in the Harrop Lab and conduct her own independent research project focused on executive functioning in ADHD and ASD. Read more about here project here....

  The Harrop Lab was busy at the 2019 International Society for Autism Research Conference in Montreal. Former research assistant, Desiree Jones (now a graduate student at UT Dallas), presented data from our ASF-funded eye tracking study that considered how gender effects attention in ASD. Graduate student, Aaron Dallman, presented...

Graduate student, Aaron Dallman, chaired a Graduate Student Symposium at the 52nd Annual Gatlinburg Conference of Research and Theory in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in San Antonio. The symposium, organized by Aaron, featured graduate student talks from UNC, UCLA and University of Alabama on the theme of the appropriateness of...