A5091575047- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Language Development and Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Infant Health and Development
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
University of East Anglia
2018-2025
King's College London
2025
Norwich Research Park
2019-2024
University of London
2010-2023
Birkbeck, University of London
2013-2022
Universidad de Londres
2010-2020
Bethlem Royal Hospital
2019
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2019
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
2019
McGill University
2019
Risk markers for later autism identified in the first year of life present plausible intervention targets during early development. We aimed to assess effect a parent-mediated infants at high risk on these markers. did two-site, two-arm assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial families with an infant familial aged 7–10 months, testing adapted Video Interaction Promote Positive Parenting (iBASIS-VIPP) versus no intervention. Families were randomly assigned or groups using permuted block...
A popular idea related to early brain development in autism is that a lack of attention to, or interest in, social stimuli life interferes with the emergence networks mediating typical socio-communicative skills. Compelling as it is, this developmental account has proved difficult verify empirically because typically diagnosed toddlerhood, after process specialization well underway. Using prospective study, we directly tested integrity orienting mechanisms infants at-risk for by virtue...
Infant's face preferences have previously been assessed in displays containing 1 or 2 faces. Here we present 6-month-old infants with a complex visual array faces among multiple objects. Despite the competing objects, direct their first saccade toward more frequently than expected by chance (Experiment 1). The attention-grabbing effect of is not selective to upright 2) but does require presence internal facial elements, as whose interior has phase-scrambled did attract infants' attention 3)....
Michelle de Haan, and Megan R. Gunnar (Eds.) (2009). Handbook of Developmental Social Neuroscience. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1606231173; 550 pp; £57.50 (hbk). The Development...
Significance This paper addresses the possible developmental origins of humans’ preference for native speakers. Infants’ to attend someone speaking their language is well documented and has been interpreted as a precursor our adult tendency divide social world into groups, preferring members one’s own group disfavoring others. Here we propose that this may originate from infants’ desire acquire information therefore preferentially interact with partners who are more likely provide them...
The majority of current developmental models prioritise a pedagogical approach to knowledge acquisition in infancy, which infants play relatively passive role as recipients information. In view recent evidence, demonstrating that use pointing express interest and solicit information from adults, we set out test whether giving the child leading deciding what receive leads better learning. Sixteen-month-olds were introduced pairs novel objects and, once they had pointed an object, shown...
Abstract Speech is not a purely auditory signal. From around 2 months of age, infants are able to correctly match the vowel they hear with appropriate articulating face. However, there no behavioral evidence integrated audiovisual perception until 4 at earliest, when an illusory percept can be created by fusion stimulus and facial cues (McGurk effect). To understand how initially articulatory movements see sounds hear, we recorded high-density ERPs in response vowels that followed congruent...
One-year-old infants have a small receptive vocabulary and follow deictic gestures, but it is still debated whether they appreciate the referential nature of these signals. Demonstrating understanding complementary roles symbolic (word) indexical (pointing) reference provides evidence interpretation communicative We presented 13-month-old with video sequences an actress indicating position hidden object while naming it. The looked longer when named was revealed not at location indicated by...
In addition to core symptoms, i.e., social interaction and communication difficulties restricted repetitive behaviors, autism is also characterized by aspects of superior perception [1Mottron L. Dawson M. Soulières I. Hubert B. Burack J. Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: an update, eight principles autistic perception.J. Autism Dev. Disord. 2006; 36: 27-43Crossref PubMed Scopus (1176) Google Scholar]. One well-replicated finding that performance visual search tasks, which...
Background Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have co‐occurring symptoms of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) and/or anxiety. It is unclear whether these disorders arise from shared or distinct developmental pathways. We explored this question by testing the specificity early‐life (infant and toddler) predictors mid‐childhood ADHD anxiety compared to ASD symptoms. Methods Infants ( n = 104) at high low familial risk for took part in research assessments 7, 14, 24 38...
Abstract Little is known about how spontaneous attentional deployment differs on a millisecond-level scale in the early development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We measured fine-grained eye movement patterns 6-to 9-month-old infants at high or low familial risk (HR/LR) ASD while they viewed static images. observed shorter fixation durations (i.e. time interval between saccades) HR than LR infants. Preliminary analyses indicate that these results were replicated second cohort Fixation...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting around 1% of the population. We previously discovered that infant siblings children with ASD had stronger pupillary light reflexes compared to low-risk infants, result which contrasts sharply weak reflex typically seen in both and adults ASD. Here, we show on average relative constriction larger 9-10-month-old high risk who receive an diagnosis at 36 months, those do not controls. also found magnitude infancy...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common, highly heritable, developmental and later-born siblings of diagnosed children are at higher risk developing ASD than the general population. Although emergence behavioural symptoms in toddlerhood well characterized, far less known about development during first months life infants familial risk. In prospective longitudinal study followed to 36 months, we measured functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) brain responses social videos people...
Effective multisensory processing develops in infancy and is thought to be important for the perception of unified multimodal objects events. Previous research suggests impaired autism, but its role early development disorder yet uncertain. Here, using a prospective longitudinal design, we tested whether reduced visual attention audiovisual synchrony an infant marker later-emerging autism diagnosis.We studied 10-month-old siblings children with eye tracking task previously used studies...
Difficulties with executive functioning (EF) are common in individuals a range of developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Interventions that target underlying mechanisms EF early development could be broadly beneficial, but require infant markers such order to feasible. Prospective studies infants at high familial risk (HR) for ASD have revealed surprising tendency HR toddlers show longer epochs attention faces than low-risk (LR) controls. In typical development,...
Abstract We conducted a replication study of our prior report that increased alpha EEG connectivity at 14-months associates with later autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, and dimensional variation in restricted interests/repetitive behaviours. 143 infants high low familial risk for ASD watched dynamic videos spinning toys women singing nursery rhymes while high-density was recorded. Alpha functional (7–8 Hz) calculated using the debiased weighted phase lag index. The final sample clean...
Abstract High‐quality, centre‐based education and care during the early years benefit cognitive development, especially in children from disadvantaged backgrounds. During COVID‐19 pandemic its associated lockdowns, access to childhood (ECEC) was disrupted. We investigate how this period affected developmental advantages typically offered by ECEC. Using parent‐report data 189 families living UK, we explore associations between time spent ECEC 8‐to‐36‐month‐olds, their socioeconomic...
Abstract Most studies on visual perception of human beings have focused faces. However, bodies are another important element, which help us to identify a member our species in the scene. In order study whether similar configural information processing is used body and face perception, we recorded high-density even-related potentials (ERPs) normal distorted faces adults 3-month-old infants. adults, N1 responses evoked by were amplitude but differed slightly latency. The voltage topography...