was awarded an NIH AREA grant ($207,059). The grant, beginning March 1 2006 and continuing through 2009, will support student collaborators to conduct research with Julie on the perceptual processing of tamarin monkeys. Tamarins appear to be a good model of the perceptual problems experienced by autistic individuals. Further exploration of this topic may yield better diagnostic tests for aspects of autism, training programs to correct for some deficits, and a deeper understanding of how the brain evolved in connectivity and temporal binding to influence perceptual processing.