Brandon Keehn, B.S.
Graduate Student, SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders
 

   
 
 
 
 
     
 
Background & Research Interest
 
Brandon received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington. While studying at the University of Washington, Brandon worked with Dr. James McPartland on a project that investigated how individuals with Asperger's Syndrome attend to faces, as measured by their visual fixation. Since graduating, he has worked under Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg and Dr. Robert Joseph at the Lab of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston University. There he was responsible for development and administration of experiments, which utilized reaction time, eye-tracking, and psychophysiological response to assess visual attention and face processing abilities in individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Currently, Brandon is a student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders at SDSU/UCSD. His present research at BDIL uses eye-tracking and fMRI to examine superior visual search abilities in adolescents with autism.