Bio:
Matthew Belmonte trained in computer science, neuroscience, and fiction
writing -- three complementary aspects of symbolic systems.  His research
has applied EEG and fMRI to explore brain physiology in people with autism
spectrum conditions and in their family members, helping to provide the
basis of a current theory of abnormal connectivity within and between
autistic neural and cognitive networks.  He also has interests in the
development of computational methods for statistical analysis of fMRI
and EEG time series, and in the relation of cognitive science to literary
representation.  Belmonte is currently an assistant professor in the
Department of Human Development at Cornell, and has worked with Simon
Baron-Cohen at Cambridge, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd at McLean Hospital,
and Eric Courchesne at UCSD.