P Heaton

Summary

Affiliation: University of London
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Pitch memory, labelling and disembedding in autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:543-51. 2003
  2. ncbi Annotation: the savant syndrome
    Pamela Heaton
    Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:899-911. 2004
  3. ncbi Interval and contour processing in autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 35:787-93. 2005
  4. ncbi Beyond perception: musical representation and on-line processing in autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 37:1355-60. 2007
  5. ncbi "With concord of sweet sounds...": new perspectives on the diversity of musical experience in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
    Pamela Heaton
    Goldsmiths College, University of London Psychology, London, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:318-25. 2009
  6. ncbi Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1443-7. 2009
  7. ncbi Superior discrimination of speech pitch and its relationship to verbal ability in autism spectrum disorders
    Pamela Heaton
    Psychology Department, Goldsmith s University of London, New Cross, London, UK
    Cogn Neuropsychol 25:771-82. 2008
  8. ncbi Research note: exceptional absolute pitch perception for spoken words in an able adult with autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom
    Neuropsychologia 46:2095-8. 2008
  9. ncbi Autism and pitch processing splinter skills: a group and subgroup analysis
    Pamela Heaton
    Goldsmiths College, London, UK
    Autism 12:203-19. 2008
  10. ncbi The subjective experience of music in autism spectrum disorder
    Rory Allen
    Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Psychology, New Cross, London, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:326-31. 2009

Detail Information

Publications14

  1. ncbi Pitch memory, labelling and disembedding in autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:543-51. 2003
    ..These experiments investigate the extent that enhanced disembedding ability will be found within the musical domain in autism...
  2. ncbi Annotation: the savant syndrome
    Pamela Heaton
    Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:899-911. 2004
    ..Whilst interest has focused on the origin and nature of the savant syndrome for over a century, it is only within the past two decades that empirical group studies have been carried out...
  3. ncbi Interval and contour processing in autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 35:787-93. 2005
    ..On the test of contour discrimination no group differences emerged. These findings confirm earlier studies showing facilitated pitch processing and a preserved ability to represent small-scale musical structures in autism...
  4. ncbi Beyond perception: musical representation and on-line processing in autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 37:1355-60. 2007
    ..The findings were interpreted within the context of studies showing weakened sensitivity to verbal/semantic information in autism...
  5. ncbi "With concord of sweet sounds...": new perspectives on the diversity of musical experience in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
    Pamela Heaton
    Goldsmiths College, University of London Psychology, London, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:318-25. 2009
    ....
  6. ncbi Assessing musical skills in autistic children who are not savants
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1443-7. 2009
    ..Data from empirical studies show that many autistic children possess musical potential that can and should be developed...
  7. ncbi Superior discrimination of speech pitch and its relationship to verbal ability in autism spectrum disorders
    Pamela Heaton
    Psychology Department, Goldsmith s University of London, New Cross, London, UK
    Cogn Neuropsychol 25:771-82. 2008
    ..The implications of these findings for understanding heterogeneity of language ability in ASD are discussed...
  8. ncbi Research note: exceptional absolute pitch perception for spoken words in an able adult with autism
    Pamela Heaton
    Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom
    Neuropsychologia 46:2095-8. 2008
    ..The analysis showed that AC's naming of speech pitch was highly superior in comparison to controls. The results suggest that explicit access to perceptual information in speech is retained to a significantly higher degree in autism...
  9. ncbi Autism and pitch processing splinter skills: a group and subgroup analysis
    Pamela Heaton
    Goldsmiths College, London, UK
    Autism 12:203-19. 2008
    ..The findings were interpreted within the context of neuroconstructivist models of typical development and delayed language acquisition characteristic of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders...
  10. ncbi The subjective experience of music in autism spectrum disorder
    Rory Allen
    Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Psychology, New Cross, London, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1169:326-31. 2009
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  11. ncbi Evidence for reduced domain-specificity in auditory processing in autism
    Anna Järvinen-Pasley
    Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
    Dev Sci 10:786-93. 2007
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  12. ncbi Is the linguistic content of speech less salient than its perceptual features in autism?
    Anna Järvinen-Pasley
    Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 38:239-48. 2008
    ..Implications for language acquisition in autism are discussed...
  13. ncbi The relationship between form and function level receptive prosodic abilities in autism
    Anna Järvinen-Pasley
    Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
    J Autism Dev Disord 38:1328-40. 2008
    ..Implications for future research are discussed...
  14. ncbi Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism
    Anna Järvinen-Pasley
    Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
    Dev Sci 11:109-21. 2008
    ..It is additionally proposed that the pattern of results may reflect different patterns of attentional focusing towards single or multiple stimulus cues in speech between children with autism and controls...