A5067732669- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Australian History and Society
- World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
2023-2025
University College London
2024-2025
Radboud University Nijmegen
2018-2024
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
2024
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
2024
Trinity College Dublin
2023
University of Cambridge
2023
Whakauae Research (New Zealand)
2021
Radboud University Medical Center
2019-2020
Allen Institute for Brain Science
2020
During speech processing, neural activity in non-autistic adults and infants tracks the envelope. Recent research indicates that this tracking relates to linguistic knowledge may be reduced autism. Such tracking, if present already infancy, could impede language development. In current study, we focused on children with a family history of autism, who often show delay first acquisition. We investigated whether differences sung nursery rhymes during infancy relate development autism symptoms...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects social communication skills and flexible behaviour. Developing new treatment approaches for ASD requires early identification of the factors influence later behavioural outcomes. One fruitful research paradigm has been prospective study infants with first degree relative ASD, who have around 20% likelihood developing themselves. Early findings identified range candidate neurocognitive markers such as delayed...
Understanding the mechanisms underlying complex behaviours--such as reading, decision-making, and human-animal interactions--requires theoretical frameworks that capture real-world complexity while remaining interpretable. While psychological cognitive sciences seem well-positioned to provide such frameworks, they are facing a confidence crisis. A key issue is lack of robust, precise theories capable guiding research. To address this, it has been suggested computational or mathematical...
Abstract Predictive processing accounts of autism posit that autistic individuals' perception is less biased by expectations than nonautistic individuals', perhaps through stronger precision‐weighting prediction errors. Since fundamental to all information processing, under this theory, the differences between and individuals should be domain‐general observable in both behavior brain responses. This study used EEG, behavioral responses, eye‐tracking co‐registration during gaze‐direction...
Predictive Processing has been proposed as the single unifying computation underlying all of cognition, and proponents argue that psychological phenomena can be explained consequences this mechanism. This theory inspired many cognitive scientists neuroscientists, but it currently no developmental mechanism would explain how infants begin to perceive learn about world. Rather, treats human cognition if exists in a fully-developed adult with history observations world knowledge. In its current...
Abstract Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show atypical processing of facial expressions. Research autistic toddlers suggests that abnormalities in spatial frequencies (SFs) contribute to such differences. The current event-related-potential (ERP) study investigated differences between 10-month-old infants high- and low-likelihood for ASD SF discrimination fearful neutral faces, filtered contain specific SF. Results indicate no group general higher (HSF, detailed) lower-SF...
Predictive Processing accounts of autism claim that autistic individuals assign higher precision to their prediction errors than non-autistic individuals, is, update predictions more readily when faced with unexpected sensory input. Since setting the level is a fundamental part perception and learning, we propose such differences should be detectable in various domains at very early age, before clinical symptoms have fully emerged. We therefore tested 3-year-old younger siblings children,...
Predictive processing accounts of autism posit that individuals with rely less on expectations than those without when it comes to interpreting incoming sensory information. Since these are claimed underlie all information processing, we reason any differences in how they formed or adjusted should be persistent across multiple cognitive domains and detectable much earlier clinicians can currently diagnose autism, around 3 years age. This experiment is part a longitudinal prospective study...
During speech processing, neural activity in non-autistic adults and infants tracks the envelope. Recent research indicates that this tracking relates to linguistic knowledge may be reduced autism. Such tracking, if present already infancy, could impede language development. In current study, we focused on children with a family history of autism, who often show delay first acquisition. We investigated whether differences sung nursery rhymes during infancy relate development autism symptoms...
Most theoretical accounts of autism posit difficulties in predicting others' actions, and this difficulty has been proposed to be at the root autistic individuals' social communication differences. Empirical results are mixed, however, with individuals showing reduced action prediction some studies but not others. It recently that effect might observed primarily when actions less predictable, idea yet tested. To assess influence predictability on neural behavioural prediction, current study...
When environmental regularities change, new observations should be weighted more highly than old observations, to allow model updating in a fluctuating world. These changes influence learning rates, but it is less clear how they perception. A recent theory suggests that surprising trigger reactive processes which increase sensory gain the subsequent few hundred ms. Such would generate reliable estimates of events, thereby optimising accurate updating. To test this account, we asked whether...
Purpose: Infants later diagnosed with autism typically have smaller vocabularies than their peers. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI) and the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) are key tools for assessing infants' language abilities, but it remains unclear what association is between these measures in infancy, whether associations vary group status (elevated likelihood or not; confirmed diagnosis not).Methods: We analyzed data from 720 14-month-old infants...
Infants are constantly inundated with sensory input, which they must somehow interpret in order to understand the world. They do this without explicit cues about parts of input going be useful and can ignored. We know that infants implicitly learn complex skills, shows manage separate informative signal from uninformative noise.In laboratory-based learning tasks, when learnt is accompanied by other less reliable signals, environmental variability seems cue learners towards invariant,...
Abstract Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have smaller vocabularies in infancy compared to typically-developing children. To understand whether their stem from problems learning, our study a prospective risk sample of 18 elevated and 11 lower 24-month-olds on current vocabulary size word learning ability using paradigm which parents teach child words. Results revealed that both groups learned novel words, even though indicated infants at ASD knew fewer This...
We know that our perception is influenced by expectations, which are based on previous experience. Although this has been talked about for hundreds of years, there have technological and theoretical advances over the past few years enabled a surge in new discoveries field predictive perception. In paper, we outline some these emphasise scientific progress collective effort technologies theories build upon each other virtuous cycle.
Recent accounts of autism claim that due to altered predictive processing, autistic individuals cannot always identify signal from noise in sensory input, which leads models the world are overfitted specific experiences (Manning et al., 2015; van der Cruys 2017). According these accounts, information processing differences should be present at a very young age, even before can reliably diagnosed. Due hereditary nature autism, we currently study development condition by following younger...
Most theoretical accounts of autism posit difficulties in predicting others’ actions, and this difficulty has been proposed to be at the root autistic individuals’ social communication differences. Empirical results are mixed, however, with individuals showing reduced action prediction some studies but not others. It recently that effect might observed primarily when actions less predictable, idea yet tested. To assess influence predictability on neural behavioural prediction, current study...
Predictive Processing accounts of autism posit that individuals with rely less on expectations than those without when it comes to interpreting incoming sensory information. Since these are claimed underlie all information processing, we reason any differences in how they formed or adjusted should be persistent across multiple cognitive domains and detectable much earlier clinicians can currently diagnose autism, around 3 years age.This experiment is part a longitudinal prospective study...
Predictive Processing accounts of autism claim that autistic individuals assign higher precision to their prediction errors than non-autistic individuals, is, update predictions more readily when faced with unexpected sensory input. Since setting the level is a fundamental part perception and learning, we propose such differences should be detectable in various domains at very early age, before clinical symptoms have fully emerged. We therefore tested 3-year-old younger siblings children,...