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| M D RutherfordSummaryAffiliation: McMaster University Country: Canada Publications
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IQ predicts biological motion perception in autism spectrum disordersM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 42:557-65. 2012..There were no group differences in sensitivity to biological motion or the ability to identify the direction of motion. Possible explanations are discussed, including the possible use of compensatory strategies in high IQ ASD...- Fathers show modifications of infant-directed action similar to that of mothersM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
J Exp Child Psychol 111:367-78. 2012..These results provide evidence that fathers show modifications in their infant-directed action that is similar to that of mothers... - Scan path differences and similarities during emotion perception in those with and without autism spectrum disordersM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4K1
J Autism Dev Disord 38:1371-81. 2008..However, those with ASD looked at the eyes less than the control group when viewing complex emotions... - Eye direction, not movement direction, predicts attention shifts in those with autism spectrum disordersM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
J Autism Dev Disord 38:1958-65. 2008..Reflexive attention shifts in both groups followed terminal eye direction, rather than direction of movement... - Evidence of a divided-attention advantage in autismM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cogn Neuropsychol 24:505-15. 2007..These results stand in stark contrast to the predictions of some prevalent theories of visual and cognitive processing in autism... - The use of aftereffects in the study of relationships among emotion categoriesM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:27-40. 2008..This suggests an asymmetric relationship among categories. Experiments 4-7 explored the mechanism driving this effect. The evolutionary and functional explanations for the category asymmetry are discussed... 
Differences in discrimination of eye and mouth displacement in autism spectrum disordersM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1
Vision Res 47:2099-110. 2007..These results suggests that typical individuals are better able to make use of information in the eyes than some individuals with ASD, but that there is no clear autism "advantage" in the use of information in the mouth region...- A longitudinal study of pretend play in autismM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4K1
J Autism Dev Disord 37:1024-39. 2007..1 months). Children with autism were profoundly delayed given both competence (prompted) measures as well as performance (spontaneous) measures. Joint attention at time 1 strongly and uniquely predicted pretend play development... - Visual afterimages of emotional faces in high functioning autismM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 42:221-9. 2012..This study was the first to provide evidence of visual aftereffects in ASD and suggests a different psychological organization among emotions in those with ASD... - Cognitive underpinnings of pretend play in autismM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 33:289-302. 2003..They also had significant deficits in our ToM measure, but not our EF measures. Regression analyses suggested a role for our measure of generativity, one of the EF measures... - The effect of social role on theory of mind reasoningM D Rutherford
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Br J Psychol 95:91-103. 2004..That performance on theory of mind tasks can vary independently of performance on matched control tasks is consistent with the idea that ToM reasoning can change as a result of a change in social status... - A retrospective journal-based case study of an infant with autism and his twinM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, McMasterUniversity, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Neurocase 11:129-37. 2005..This rare opportunity to view early autistic development gives direction to developmental theories of autism and clinically useful cues to early signs of autism... - Rules versus prototype matching: strategies of perception of emotional facial expressions in the autism spectrumM D Rutherford
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street, West Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 37:187-96. 2007..People with ASD appear to rely more heavily on a rule-based strategy than a template-based strategy in perceiving emotional facial expressions... - The perception of animacy in young children with autismM D Rutherford
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 36:983-92. 2006..These results are discussed in terms of the social orienting theory of autism, and the possibility that animacy perception might be preserved in autism, even if it is not used automatically... - The 'Reading the Mind in the Voice' test-revised: a study of complex emotion recognition in adults with and without autism spectrum conditionsOfer Golan
Department of Psychiatry, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University, Douglas House, 18b Trumpington Road, CB2 2AH, Cambridge, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 37:1096-106. 2007..Verbal IQ was positively correlated with performance, and females performed worse than males in the AS/HFA group. Results are discussed with regard to multi modal empathizing deficits in autism spectrum conditions (ASC)... - Categorical perception of emotional facial expressions in preschoolersJenna L Cheal
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
J Exp Child Psychol 110:434-43. 2011..5-year-olds perceive happy and sad emotional facial expressions categorically as adults do. Categorizing emotional expressions is advantageous for children if it allows them to use social information faster and more efficiently... - Individuals with autism can categorize facial expressionsMichelle Homer
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Child Neuropsychol 14:419-37. 2008..As this result is inconsistent with findings from other studies of categorical perception in individuals with autism, possible explanations for these findings are discussed... - A threat-detection advantage in those with autism spectrum disordersKristen M Krysko
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Brain Cogn 69:472-80. 2009..Participants with ASD showed similar reaction time, but decreased overall accuracy compared to controls. This provides evidence for less robust, but intact or learned implicit processing of basic emotions in ASD... - Reading-related habitual eye movements produce a directional anisotropy in the perception of speed and animacyPaul A Szego
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada
Perception 37:1609-11. 2008..These results suggest that the highly practiced eye movements involved in reading are associated with the presence or absence of a directional anisotropy for speed and animacy... - Reading the mind in the voice: a study with normal adults and adults with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autismM D Rutherford
Department of Experimental Psychology, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 32:189-94. 2002..These results are consistent with previous results suggesting that people with HFA and AS have difficulties drawing ToM inferences... - Actual and illusory differences in constant speed influence the perception of animacy similarlyPaul A Szego
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
J Vis 7:5.1-7. 2007..Together, these results suggest that our perceptions of animacy are influenced by constant speed differences, and that the perceptual association of speed and animacy is influenced by actual and illusory speed differences similarly... - Recognition of novel faces after single exposure is enhanced during pregnancyMarla V Anderson
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Evol Psychol 9:47-60. 2011..In human evolutionary history, and today, males present a significant threat to females. Thus, enhanced recognition of faces, and especially male faces, during pregnancy may serve a protective function... - Mapping emotion category boundaries using a visual expectation paradigmJenna L Cheal
Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
Perception 39:1514-25. 2010..Results from two experiments suggest that this implicit method can be used to determine category boundaries, and that the boundaries found with this method are similar to those found with the keypress response... - Emotional responsivity in children with autism, children with other developmental disabilities, and children with typical developmentD J Scambler
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 37:553-63. 2007..Children with autism demonstrated muted changes in affect, but these responses occurred much less frequently than in comparison groups. The findings suggest directions for early identification and early treatment of autism...