Professor in Biological and Experimental Psychology
Autism, Neurodevelopment, Mental health, Screen Time, Infancy
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Brain and BehaviourSound asleep: sensory decoupling during sleep depends on an infant’s sensory profileProfiles of parent–teacher discrepancy on autistic children’s adaptive functioningDevelopmental Pathways From Childhood Neurodevelopmental Traits to Early Adolescent Psychiatric Dimensions: The Role of Environmental and Lifestyle FactorsBridging the gap: unveiling key links between autism and anxiety symptoms in autistic children and youth using a network analysis in pooled data from four countriesToddlers Viewing Fantastical Cartoons: Evidence of an Immediate Reduction in Endogenous Control Without an Increase in Stimulus‐Driven Exogenous ControlSex‐Differential Trajectories of Domain‐Specific Associations Between Autistic Traits and Co‐Occurring Emotional‐Behavioral Concerns in Autistic ChildrenTrajectories of attention problems in autistic children and relations to social skills outcomes.Simple Executive Function as an endophenotype of autism-ADHD, and differing associations between simple versus complex Executive Functions and autism/ADHD traitsToddler Screen Use Before Bed and Its Effect on Sleep and AttentionLongitudinal associations between autistic children’s anxiety and social communication differences: The moderating role of executive function behavioursEarly-Onset Trajectories of Emotional Dysregulation in Autistic ChildrenParent‐mediated intervention in infants with an elevated likelihood for autism reduces dwell time during a gaze‐following taskConcurrent and longitudinal associations between touchscreen use and executive functions at preschool-ageAn Examination of the Relations Between Effortful Control in Early Childhood and Risk for Later Externalizing Psychopathology: A Bi-factor Structural Equation Modeling ApproachNo association between alexithymia and emotion recognition or theory of mind in a sample of adolescents enhanced for autistic traitsTesting the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxietySocial threat processing in adults and children: Faster orienting to, but shorter dwell time on, angry faces during visual searchCorrection: Understanding the prevalence and manifestation of anxiety and other socio‑emotional and behavioural difficulties in children with Developmental Language DisorderA longitudinal comparison of emotional, behavioral and attention problems in autistic and typically developing childrenUnderstanding the prevalence and manifestation of anxiety and other socio-emotional and behavioural difficulties in children with Developmental Language DisorderAre Movies Making Us Smarter?The subcortical correlates of autistic traits in school-age children: a population-based neuroimaging studyDo pre-schoolers with high touchscreen use show executive function differences?Longitudinal Associations between Early Childhood Irritability and Adolescent Depression Symptoms in Autistic Children are Mediated by Peer Relationships but Not Educational EngagementAssociations between emotion recognition and autistic and callous‐unemotional traits: differential effects of cueing to the eyesModulation of EEG theta by naturalistic social content is not altered in infants with family history of autismNeuronal gating of tactile input and sleep in 10-month-old infants at typical and elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorderInter‐trial theta phase consistency during face processing in infants is associated with later emerging autismPredictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autismInhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐controlExposure to family stressful life events in autistic children: Longitudinal associations with mental health and the moderating role of cognitive flexibilityExamining Links Between Infant Parasympathetic Regulation during the Still-Face Paradigm and Later Callous-Unemotional TraitsNon-verbal IQ and change in restricted and repetitive behavior throughout childhood in autism: a longitudinal study using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-RevisedInvestigating the Mechanisms Driving Referent Selection and Retention in Toddlers at Typical and Elevated Likelihood for Autism Spectrum DisorderInvestigating longitudinal associations between parent reported sleep in early childhood and teacher reported executive functioning in school-aged children with autismAssociation between spectral electroencephalography power and autism risk and diagnosis in early developmentLongitudinal touchscreen use across early development is associated with faster exogenous and reduced endogenous attention controlSaliency-Driven Visual Search Performance in Toddlers With Low– vs High–Touch Screen UseEmotion Recognition Performance in Children with Callous Unemotional Traits is Modulated by Co-occurring Autistic TraitsBrief Report: Associations Between Cognitive Control Processes and Traits of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Anxiety in Children at Elevated and Typical Familial Likelihood for ASDCallous-unemotional traits in youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): replication of prevalence estimates and associations with gaze patterns when viewing fearful facesAtypical Development of Attentional Control Associates with Later Adaptive Functioning, Autism and ADHD TraitsNeural and behavioural indices of face processing in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A longitudinal study from infancy to mid-childhoodComparison of Parent Questionnaires, Examiner-Led Assessment and Parents’ Concerns at 14 Months of Age as Indicators of Later Diagnosis of AutismGaze Following and Attention to Objects in Infants at Familial Risk for ASDInfant regulatory function acts as a protective factor for later traits of autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder but not callous unemotional traitsLatent trajectories of adaptive behaviour in infants at high and low familial risk for autism spectrum disorderFunctional EEG connectivity in infants associates with later restricted and repetitive behaviours in autism; a replication studyTemperament as an Early Risk Marker for Autism Spectrum Disorders? A Longitudinal Study of High-Risk and Low-Risk InfantsEarly developmental pathways to childhood symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and autism spectrum disorderMaternal Attributions of Infant Behavior and Parenting in Toddlerhood Predict Teacher-Rated Internalizing Problems in ChildhoodVisual search and autism symptoms: What young children search for and co‐occurring ADHD matterAdaptive Behaviour and Cognitive Skills: Stability and Change from 7 Months to 7 Years in Siblings at High Familial Risk of Autism Spectrum DisorderPrediction of Autism at 3 Years from Behavioural and Developmental Measures in High-Risk Infants: A Longitudinal Cross-Domain Classifier AnalysisDevelopmental change in look durations predicts later effortful control in toddlers at familial risk for ASDCortical responses before 6 months of life associate with later autismChildren’s Executive Function Attenuate the Link Between Maternal Intrusiveness and Internalizing Behaviors at School EntryMethod of homicide and severe mental illness: A systematic reviewNeurocognitive and observational markers: prediction of autism spectrum disorder from infancy to mid-childhoodSimulating interaction: Using gaze-contingent eye-tracking to measure the reward value of social signals in toddlers with and without autismCallous-unemotional traits moderate executive function in children with ASD and ADHD: A pilot event-related potential studyDaily touchscreen use in infants and toddlers is associated with reduced sleep and delayed sleep onsetRandomised trial of a parent‐mediated intervention for infants at high risk for autism: longitudinal outcomes to age 3 yearsThe role of infants’ mother-directed gaze, maternal sensitivity, and emotion recognition in childhood callous unemotional behavioursVisual search performance in infants associates with later ASD diagnosisToddlers’ Fine Motor Milestone Achievement Is Associated with Early Touchscreen ScrollingErratum to: Sex differences in the association between infant markers and later autistic traitsSex differences in the association between infant markers and later autistic traitsEarly gross motor skills predict the subsequent development of language in children with autism spectrum disorderWhat clinicians need to know about statistical issues and methodsFlexible integration of visual cues in adolescents with autism spectrum disorderEnhanced Visual Search in Infancy Predicts Emerging Autism SymptomsPredicting the rate of language development from early motor skills in at-risk infants who develop autism spectrum disorderShorter spontaneous fixation durations in infants with later emerging autismBehavioural markers for autism in infancy: Scores on the Autism Observational Scale for Infants in a prospective study of at-risk siblingsParent-mediated intervention versus no intervention for infants at high risk of autism: a parallel, single-blind, randomised trialEEG hyper-connectivity in high-risk infants is associated with later autismReduced Face Preference in Infancy: A Developmental Precursor to Callous-Unemotional Traits?From early markers to neuro-developmental mechanisms of autismInfant Neural Sensitivity to Dynamic Eye Gaze Relates to Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction at 7-Months in Infants at Risk for AutismAdditive effects of social and non‐social attention during infancy relate to later autism spectrum disorderDevelopmental pathways to autism: A review of prospective studies of infants at riskMotor development in children at risk of autism: A follow-up study of infant siblingsEarly and persistent motor difficulties in infants at-risk of developing autism spectrum disorder: A prospective studyEarly Language Profiles in Infants at High-Risk for Autism Spectrum DisordersWhat you see is what you get: contextual modulation of face scanning in typical and atypical developmentQuality of interaction between at‐risk infants and caregiver at 12–15 months is associated with 3‐year autism outcomeFailure to learn from feedback underlies word learning difficulties in toddlers at risk for autismTemperament in the First 2 Years of Life in Infants at High-Risk for Autism Spectrum DisordersGaze Following, Gaze Reading, and Word Learning in Children at Risk for AutismPrecursors to Social and Communication Difficulties in Infants At-Risk for Autism: Gaze Following and Attentional EngagementInfant Neural Sensitivity to Dynamic Eye Gaze Is Associated with Later Emerging AutismFusion of visual cues is not mandatory in childrenDevelopment of Cue Integration in Human NavigationDevelopmental pathways from childhood neurodevelopmental traits to early adolescent psychiatric dimensions: the role of environmental and lifestyle factorsUnderstanding the prevalence and manifestation of the anxiety and social difficulties experienced by children with Developmental Language Disorder.The subcortical morphology correlates of autistic traits in school-age children: a population-based neuroimaging studyGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Brain and BehaviourUKRI Cross-Research Council: ANIMATING MINDS: Triangulating the age-appropriate impact of children’s media
Ekaterina Ivanova and Rachael Bedford have been awarded a grant from the QMUL CIRCLE Fund to run a pilot study to identify the Sensory-Motor Patterns of Autism. It runs until the end of 2026, and is worth £7,873.16 The main objective of the project is to investigate differences in interaction motion patterns ... [more]