Search Results - "Luyster, Rhiannon J"

The integrity of lexical acquisition mechanisms in autism spectrum disorders: A research review by Arunachalam, Sudha, Luyster, Rhiannon J.

“…Research on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has rapidly expanded in recent years, yielding important developments in both theory and practice. While we have…”
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Parental tuning of language input to autistic and nonspectrum children by He, Angela Xiaoxue, Luyster, Rhiannon J, Arunachalam, Sudha

“…Caregivers' language input supports children's language development, and it is often tuned to the child's current level of skill. Evidence suggests that…”
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Conventions for unconventional language: Revisiting a framework for spoken language features in autism by Luyster, Rhiannon J, Zane, Emily, Wisman Weil, Lisa

“…Background and aims Autism has long been characterized by a range of spoken language features, including, for instance: the tendency to repeat words and…”
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Greater Pupil Size in Response to Emotional Faces as an Early Marker of Social-Communicative Difficulties in Infants at High Risk for Autism by Wagner, Jennifer B., Luyster, Rhiannon J., Tager-Flusberg, Helen, Nelson, Charles A.

“…When scanning faces, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have shown reduced visual attention (e.g., less time on eyes) and atypical autonomic…”
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Neural measures of social attention across the first years of life: Characterizing typical development and markers of autism risk by Luyster, Rhiannon J., Powell, Christine, Tager-Flusberg, Helen, Nelson, Charles A.

“…•P1, N290, P400 and Nc show differential patterns of age-related change.•P400 and Nc show right-lateralization.•Infants at high- and low-risk for ASD do not…”
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The effects of early institutionalization on emotional face processing: evidence for sparing via an experience‐dependent mechanism by Young, Audrey, Luyster, Rhiannon J., Fox, Nathan A., Zeanah, Charles H., Nelson, Charles A.

“…Early psychosocial deprivation has profound adverse effects on children's brain and behavioural development, including abnormalities in physical growth,…”
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Word imageability is associated with expressive vocabulary in children with autism spectrum disorder by Lin, Kimberly R, Wisman Weil, Lisa, Thurm, Audrey, Lord, Catherine, Luyster, Rhiannon J

“…Background & aims Throughout typical development, children prioritize different perceptual, social, and linguistic cues to learn words. The earliest acquired…”
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The role of early visual attention in social development by Wagner, Jennifer B., Luyster, Rhiannon J., Yim, Jung Yeon, Tager-Flusberg, Helen, Nelson, Charles A.

“…Faces convey important information about the social environment, and even very young infants are preferentially attentive to face-like over non-face stimuli…”
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Brief Report: Learning Language Through Overhearing in Children with ASD by Luyster, Rhiannon J., Arunachalam, Sudha

“…We explored whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn new nouns from overheard speech. Thirteen children (4–5 years) with ASD participated in…”
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Identifying early-risk markers and developmental trajectories for language impairment in neurodevelopmental disorders by Luyster, Rhiannon J, Seery, Anne, Talbott, Meagan R, Tager-Flusberg, Helen

“…The effective identification of neurodevelopmental disorders is essential for early diagnosis and provision of intervention services. For many of these…”
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Lexical Development in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): How ASD May Affect Intake from the Input by Arunachalam, Sudha, Luyster, Rhiannon J

“…Purpose: Most children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have below-age lexical knowledge and lexical representation. Our goal is to examine ways in which…”
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Neural Correlates of Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Processing in Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders by Luyster, Rhiannon J., Wagner, Jennifer B., Vogel-Farley, Vanessa, Tager-Flusberg, Helen, Nelson III, Charles A.

“…Examining the neural correlates associated with processing social stimuli offers a viable option to the challenge of studying early social processing in…”
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Language Assessment and Development in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Luyster, Rhiannon J., Kadlec, Mary Beth, Carter, Alice, Tager-Flusberg, Helen

“…One of the primary diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is the presence of a language delay or impairment. Children with…”
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Identifying Childhood Expressive Language Features That Best Predict Adult Language and Communication Outcome in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder by LeGrand, Kaya J, Wisman Weil, Lisa, Lord, Catherine, Luyster, Rhiannon J

“…Purpose: Several studies have reported that "useful speech" at 5 years of age predicts outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but this…”
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Toddlers’ word learning through overhearing: Others’ attention matters by Fitch, Allison, Lieberman, Amy M., Luyster, Rhiannon J., Arunachalam, Sudha

“…•We replicate findings that young toddlers can learn novel words they have overheard from joint attention interactions.•We find that when the overheard…”
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Testing the effects of expression, intensity and age on emotional face processing in ASD by Luyster, Rhiannon J., Bick, Johanna, Westerlund, Alissa, Nelson, Charles A.

“…Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly show global deficits in the processing of facial emotion, including impairments in emotion recognition…”
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The robustness of eye–mouth index as an eye-tracking metric of social attention in toddlers by Souter, Nicholas E., Arunachalam, Sudha, Luyster, Rhiannon J.

“…Eye-tracking research on social attention in infants and toddlers has included heterogeneous stimuli and analysis techniques. This allows measurement of…”
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Consistency and Inconsistency in Caregiver Reporting of Vocabulary by Arunachalam, Sudha, Avtushka, Valeryia, Luyster, Rhiannon J., Guthrie, Whitney

“…Vocabulary checklists completed by caregivers are a common way of measuring children's vocabulary knowledge. We provide evidence from checklist data from 31…”
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Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE): Scalable online replications of key findings in infant cognitive development by Tenenbaum, Elena J., Stone, Caitlin, Vu, My H., Hare, Madeleine, Gilyard, Kristen R., Arunachalam, Sudha, Bergelson, Elika, Bishop, Somer L., Frank, Michael C., Hamlin, J. Kiley, Kline Struhl, Melissa, Landa, Rebecca J., Lew-Williams, Casey, Libertus, Melissa E., Luyster, Rhiannon J., Markant, Julie, Sabatos-DeVito, Maura, Sheinkopf, Stephen J., Wagner, Jennifer B., Park, Kayle, Soderling, Anna I., Waterman, Ashleigh K., Grapel, Jordan N., Bermano, Amit, Erel, Yotam, Jeste, Shafali

“…The current article describes the Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning, a battery intended to provide robust looking time measures of cognitive development…”
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Differential attention to faces in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder and associations with later social and language ability by Wagner, Jennifer, Luyster, Rhiannon J., Moustapha, Hana, Tager-Flusberg, Helen, Nelson, Charles Alexander

“…A growing body of literature has begun to explore social attention in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with hopes of identifying…”
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