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Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions (2014)
Book
van Herwegen, J., & Riby, D. (Eds.). (2014). Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions. Psychology Press

Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research itself has become more sophisticated, using multid... Read More about Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions.

That looks familiar: attention allocation to familiar and unfamiliar faces in children with autism spectrum disorder (2014)
Journal Article
Gillespie-Smith, K., Doherty-Sneddon, G., Hancock, P., & Riby, D. (2014). That looks familiar: attention allocation to familiar and unfamiliar faces in children with autism spectrum disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 19(6), 554-569. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2014.943365

Introduction. Existing eye-tracking literature has shown that both adults and children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show fewer and slower fixations on faces. Despite this reduced saliency and processing of other faces, recognition of their ow... Read More about That looks familiar: attention allocation to familiar and unfamiliar faces in children with autism spectrum disorder.

Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition (2014)
Journal Article
Hanley, M., Riby, D., McCormack, T., Carty, C., Coyle, L., Crozier, N., …McPhillips, M. (2014). Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(7), 908-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2014.03.020

Eye-tracking studies have shown how people with autism spend significantly less time looking at socially relevant information on-screen compared to those developing typically. This has been suggested to impact on the development of socio-cognitive sk... Read More about Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition.

Deeper processing is beneficial during episodic memory encoding for adults with Williams syndrome (2014)
Journal Article
Greer, J., Hamilton, C., Riby, D., & Riby, L. (2014). Deeper processing is beneficial during episodic memory encoding for adults with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35(7), 1720-1726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2014.03.004

Previous research exploring declarative memory in Williams syndrome (WS) has revealed impairment in the processing of episodic information accompanied by a relative strength in semantic ability. The aim of the current study was to extend this literat... Read More about Deeper processing is beneficial during episodic memory encoding for adults with Williams syndrome.

Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome (2014)
Journal Article
Lough, E., Flynn, E., & Riby, D. (2014). Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-014-0029-2

The Internet poses a new kind of threat, especially for those individuals already vulnerable in society. The current paper draws on the social phenotypes associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Williams syndrome (WS) to propose that indivi... Read More about Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome.