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Attention/Temperament

Bradshaw, J., Klin, A., Evans, L., Klaiman, C., Saulnier, C., & McCracken, C. (2020). Development of attention from birth to 5 months in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 32(2), 491–501.

Wang, Q., Chang, J., & Chawarska, K. (2020). Atypical value-driven selective attention in young children with autism spectrum disorder. JAMA, 3, e204928. 

Bradshaw, J., Klin, A., Jones, W., Evans, L., Klaiman, C., Saulnier, C., & McCracken, C. (2019). Development of attention from birth to 5 months in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 1-11.

Paterson, S. J., Wolff, J. J., Elison, J. T., Winder-Patel, B., Zwaigenbaum, L., Estes, A., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T., Botteron, K., Dager, S.R., Hazlett, H.C., & Piven, J.; (2019). The Importance of Temperament for Understanding Early Manifestations of Autism Spectrum Disorder in High-Risk Infants. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 49, 2849-2863

Wagner, J.B., Keehn, B., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Nelson, C.A.  (2019). Attentional bias to fearful faces in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder. Emotion.

Cheung, H. M. C., Bedford, R., Johnson, M. H., Charman, T., Gliga, T., & The BASIS Team. (2018). Visual search performance in infants links to later ASD diagnosis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 29, 4-10.

 

Doherty, B., Charman, T., Johnson, M. H., Scerif, G., Gliga, T., & The BASIS Team. (2018). Visual search in the broader autism phenotype: what young children search for and co-occurring ADHD symptoms matter. Developmental Science. 21: e1266.

Gangi, D. N., Schwichtenberg, A. J., Iosif, A. M., Young, G. S., & Ozonoff, S. (2018). Short report: Gaze to faces across interactive contexts in infants at heightened risk for autism. Autism. Advanced online publication.

Hendry, A., Jones, E. J. H., Bedford, B., Gliga, T., Charman, T., Johnson, M. H., & the BASIS Team. (2018). Developmental change in look durations predicts later effortful control in toddlers at familial risk for ASD. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.10, 3. 

Bryson, S., Garon, N., McMullen, T., Brian, J., Zwaigenbaum, L., Armstrong, V., & Szatmari, P. (2017). Impaired disengagement of attention and its relationship to emotional distress in infants at high-risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 20, 1-15.

Miller, M., Iosif, A. M., Hill, M., Young, G. S., Schwichtenberg, A. J., & Ozonoff, S. (2017). Response to name infants developing autism spectrum disorder: A prospective study. Journal of Pediatrics, 183, 141-146. 

Milosavljevic, B., Shephard, E., Happé, F., Johnson, M. J., Charman, T., & The BASIS Team. (2017). Anxiety and attentional bias to threat in children at increased familial risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47, 3714-3727. 

West, K.L., & Iverson, J.M. (2017). Language learning is hands-on: Exploring links between infants’ object manipulation and verbal input. Cognitive Development, 43, 190-200. 

Chawarska, K., Macari, S., Powell, K., DiNicola, L., & Shic, F. (2016). Enhanced social attention in female infant siblings at risk for autism. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 55, 188-195. 

Garon, N., Zwaigenbaum, L, Bryson, S.E., Smith, I.M., Brian, J., Roncadin, C., … & Roberts, W. (2016). Temperament and its association with autism symptoms in a high-risk population. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 757-776.

Gliga, T., Smith, T., Gilhooly, N., Charman, T., Johnson, M. H., & The BASIS Team. (2016). Developmental changes in visual foraging in relationship to familial risk for autism and hyperactivity/inattention: A preliminary study. Journal of Attention Disorders. 22, 839-847.

Gliga, T., Bedford, R., Charman, T., Johnson, M.H., & The BASIS team (2015). Enhanced visual search in infancy predicts emerging autism symptoms. Current Biology, 25, 1727-1730. 

Klintwall, L., Macari, S., Eikeseth, S., & Chawarska, K. (2015). Interest level in 2-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder predicts rate of verbal, nonverbal, adaptive skill acquisition. Autism, 19, 925-933. 

Wang, Q., Celebi, F.M., Fink , L., Greco, G., Wall, C., Prince, E., ... & Shic, F. (2015). Interactive eye tracking for gaze strategy modification. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '15). Boston, MA: Association for Computing Machinery. 

Wass, S.V., Jones, E.J.H., Gliga, T., Smith, T.J., Charman, T., Johnson, M.H., & BASIS Team (2015). Shorter spontaneous fixation durations in infants with later emerging autism. Scientific Reports, 5, 8284. 

Koterba, E.A., Leezenbaum, N.B., & Iverson, J.M. (2014). Object exploration at 6 and 9 months in infants with and without risk for autism. Autism, 18, 97-105.

Rao, P.A., & Landa, R.J. (2014). Association between severity of behavioral phenotype and comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism, 18, 272-280. 

Shic, F., Macari, S., & Chawarska, K. (2014). Speech disturbs face scanning in 6-month-old infants who develop autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 75, 231-237.

Chawarska, K., Macari, S. & Shic, F. (2013). Decreased spontaneous attention to social scenes in 6-month-old infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Biological Psychiatry, 74, 195-203.

Clifford, S., Hudry, K., Elsabbagh, M., Charman, T., Johnson, M. H. & The BASIS Team. (2013). Temperament in the first two years of life in infants at high-risk for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(3), 673-686. 

Elsabbagh, M., Fernandes, J., Webb, S. J., Dawson, G., Charman, T., Johnson, M. H., & The BASIS Team. (2013). Disengagement of visual attention in infancy is associated with emerging autism in toddlerhood. Biological Psychiatry, 74(3), 189-194. 

Sacrey, L.R, Bryson, S.E., & Zwaigenbaum, L. (2013). Prospective examination of visual attention during play in infants at high-risk for autism spectrum disorder: A longitudinal study from 6 to 36 months of age. Behavioural Brain Research, 256, 441-450.

 

Bhat, A.N., Galloway, J.C.,  & Landa, R.J. (2010). Social and non-social visual attention patterns and associative learning in infants at risk for autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(9), 989-997. 

Holmboe, K., Elsabbagh, M., Volein, A. Tucker, L., Baron-Cohen, S., Bolton, P., ... & Johnson, M. H. (2010). Frontal cortex functioning in the infant broader autism phenotype. Infant Behaviour and Development, 33(4), 482-491. 

Noland, J.S., Reznick, J.S., Stone, W.L., Walden, T.A., & Sheridan, E.H. (2010). Better working memory for nonsocial targets in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Science, 13(1), 244-251. 

Webb, S.J., Jones, E.J.H., Merkle, K., Namkung, J., Toth, K., Greenson, J., ... & Dawson, G. (2010). Toddlers with elevated autism symptoms show slowed habituation to faces. Child Neuropsychology, 16(3), 255-278. 

Elsabbagh, M., Volein, A., Holmboe, K., Tucker, L., Csibra, G., Baron-Cohen, S., ... & Johnson, M. H. (2009). Visual orienting in the early autism phenotype: Disengagement and facilitation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 637-642. 

Garon, N., Bryson, S.E., Zwaigenbaum, L., Smith, I.M., Brian, J., Roberts, W., & Szatmari, P. (2009). Temperament and its Relationship to Autistic Symptoms in a High-Risk Infant Sib Cohort. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37(1), 59-78. 

Presmanes, A.G., Walden, T.A., Stone, W.L., & Yoder, P.J. (2007). Effects of different attentional cues on responding to joint attention in younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 133-144.

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