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Gestalt processing in autism: failure to process perceptual relationships and the implications for contextual understandingMark J Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:459-69. 2004..Deficits in autism have been characterised as a bias towards local over global processing. This paper examines whether there is a deficit in gestalt grouping in autism...- The relationship between systemising and mental rotation and the implications for the extreme male brain theory of autismMark Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA27AY, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 40:1-7. 2010..Systemising also correlated with a proxy for circulating testosterone but not a proxy for prenatal testosterone. A sex difference was identified in systemising and the non-rotational aspect of the mental rotation task... - A preliminary investigation into the potential role of waist hip ratio (WHR) preference within the assortative mating hypothesis of autistic spectrum disordersMark Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 39:164-71. 2009.... - Digit ratio as an indicator of numeracy relative to literacy in 7-year-old British schoolchildrenMark J Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
Br J Psychol 99:75-85. 2008..These effects were small and the implications for using digit ratio to facilitate understanding of hormonal influences upon academic attainment are discussed... - Digit ratio and faculty membership: implications for the relationship between prenatal testosterone and academiaMark J Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
Br J Psychol 97:455-66. 2006..00). These results are discussed in terms of the lower normal range of male testosterone being associated with highest visual spatial abilities. Relationships with fertility and Dyslexia are also identified... - Effect of perceiving computing to be an acquirable skill upon a computer-mediated serial recall taskM J Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
Percept Mot Skills 100:354-6. 2005..Computerized versions of traditional assessments should control for this... - Drawing the net: internet identification, internet use, and the image of internet usersJeff Gavin
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Cyberpsychol Behav 10:478-81. 2007..Participants were 371 students (121 males, 250 females) from three universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. The need to challenge masculinized images of the Internet is discussed... - Gender, Internet identification, and Internet anxiety: correlates of Internet useRichard Joiner
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Cyberpsychol Behav 8:371-8. 2005..In total, all three of our predictors accounted for 40% of the variance in general Internet use: with Internet identification accounting for 26%, Internet anxiety accounting for 11%, and gender accounting for 3%... - Absence of a normal cortisol awakening response (CAR) in adolescent males with Asperger syndrome (AS)Mark Brosnan
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:1095-100. 2009..A normal diurnal decrease in cortisol, however, was evident in both groups. The implication that individuals with AS may have an impaired response to change in their environment due to a refractory HPA axis is discussed... - Internet identification and future internet useRichard Joiner
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Cyberpsychol Behav 9:410-4. 2006..Furthermore, there was a positive relationship between Internet identification and future general Internet use and a positive relationship between Internet identification and future educational Internet use... - Can a sexually dimorphic index of prenatal hormonal exposure be used to examine cold pressor pain perception in men and women?Edmund Keogh
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
Eur J Pain 11:231-6. 2007..The results are discussed in light of methods for investigating the effect of prenatal hormonal exposure on pain sensitivity in men and women... - An investigation into the relationship between eating disorder psychopathology and autistic symptomatology in a non-clinical sampleElizabeth Coombs
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 50:326-38. 2011..Those registering higher levels of ED symptomatology also reported higher levels of attention to detail and communication difficulties associated with ASD...