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Inge-Marie Eigsti

Inge-Marie Eigsti

Title: Assistant Professor


Departmental Program: Clinical

E-mail: inge-marie.eigsti@uconn.edu

Office: BOUS 146

Office Phone: (860) 486-6021

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: Email

Detailed Web Site: http://eigsti.psy.uconn.edu

 

Research Interests:

  • Neurodevelopment in autism spectrum disorders
  • Language acquisition
  • Neural constraints on language development

Undergraduate courses:

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Advanced Seminar on Autism

Graduate courses:

  • Child Psychopathology
  • Language Acquisition in Atypical Populations

Representative Publications:

  • Eigsti, I. M., Bennetto, L., & Dadlani, M. (2007). Beyond pragmatics: Morphosyntactic development in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(6), 1007-23.
  • Eigsti, I. M., Zayas, V., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., Ayduk, O., Dadlani, M.B., Davidson, M.C., Aber, J.L., Casey, B.J. (2006). Predicting cognitive control from preschool to late adolescence and young adulthood. Psychological Science, 17(6), 478-484.
  • Eigsti, I. M., & Cicchetti, D. (2004). The impact of child maltreatment on expressive syntax at 60 months. Developmental Science, 7(1), 88-102.
  • Eigsti, I. M., & Shapiro, T. (2003). A systems neuroscience approach to autism: Biological, cognitive and clinical perspectives. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 9, 205-15.

Other:

  • NIMH P01, Fred Volkmar (PI), 2006-2011. Autism and Related Disorders: Development and Outcome; Project 3: Studies of Social Communication in Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (R. Paul, PI). Role: Co-Investigator.
  • NIMH R01, Deb Fein (PI), 2006 – 2011. Language Functioning in Optimal-Outcome Children with ASD: an fMRI Study. Role: Co-Investigator.
  • Research Foundation Faculty Large Grant (University of Connecticut), Eigsti, I.M (PI), 1/2007 – 12/2008. International adoption: Effects of institutionalization on learning mechanisms and early development. Preston Britner, Family Studies (Co-PI).
  • NIMH R03 Research Grant in Developmental Psychopathology, IM Eigsti (PI), 1/2000 - 12/2001. Word learning and memory functions in young children with autism.