A review of joint attention and social‐cognitive brain systems in typical development and autism spectrum disorder

P Mundy - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a review of the increasingly detailed imaging literature on the
neurodevelopment of joint attention. Many findings from this literature support and inform the …

[HTML][HTML] Autism, oxytocin and interoception

E Quattrocki, K Friston - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by profound social and verbal
communication deficits, stereotypical motor behaviors, restricted interests, and cognitive …

Atypical attentional networks and the emergence of autism

B Keehn, RA Müller, J Townsend - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The sociocommunicative impairments that define autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not
present at birth but emerge gradually over the first two years of life. In typical development …

Context modulates attention to social scenes in toddlers with autism

K Chawarska, S Macari, F Shic - Journal of Child Psychology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Background: In typical development, the unfolding of social and communicative skills hinges
upon the ability to allocate and sustain attention toward people, a skill present moments after …

[LIVRE][B] Autism and joint attention: Development, neuroscience, and clinical fundamentals

PC Mundy - 2016 - books.google.com
From a preeminent researcher, this book looks at the key role of joint attention in both typical
and atypical development. Peter C. Mundy shows that no other symptom dimension is more …

From gaze cueing to dual eye-tracking: novel approaches to investigate the neural correlates of gaze in social interaction

UJ Pfeiffer, K Vogeley, L Schilbach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2013 - Elsevier
Tracking eye-movements provides easy access to cognitive processes involved in visual
and sensorimotor processing. More recently, the underlying neural mechanisms have been …

Face processing in autism spectrum disorders: From brain regions to brain networks

JS Nomi, LQ Uddin - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by reduced attention to social stimuli
including the human face. This hypo-responsiveness to stimuli that are engaging to typically …

Impairments to visual disengagement in autism spectrum disorder: a review of experimental studies from infancy to adulthood

LAR Sacrey, VL Armstrong, SE Bryson… - Neuroscience & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Impairments in visual disengagement are a current focus of research in autism spectrum
disorders (ASD) and may play a key role in the early expression of social–emotional deficits …

Social attention: a possible early indicator of efficacy in autism clinical trials

G Dawson, R Bernier, RH Ring - Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders, 2012 - Springer
For decades, researchers have sought to clarify the nature of the social communication
impairments in autism, highlighting impaired or atypical'social attention'as a key measurable …

The locus coeruleus–norepinephrine system as pacemaker of attention–a developmental mechanism of derailed attentional function in autism spectrum disorder

N Bast, L Poustka, CM Freitag - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit diminished visual engagement to
environmental stimuli. Aberrant attentional function provides an explanation by reduced …