Orienting to salient events in the environment is a first step in the development of attention in
young infants. Electrophysiological studies have indicated that in newborns and young …

Although the pattern of visual attention towards the region of the eyes is now well-
established for infants at an early stage of development, less is known about the extent to …

During speech processing, neural activity in non-autistic adults and infants tracks the speech
envelope. Recent research in adults indicates that this neural tracking relates to linguistic …

This analysis argues that social deficit theories exacerbate the worst excesses of the
medical model, a framework that attributes autism (in this example) as the cause of a …

Deaf children have been characterized as being impulsive, distractible, and unable to
sustain attention. However, past research has tested deaf children born to hearing parents …

Abstract Background Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been shown to
have multisensory integration deficits, which may lead to problems perceiving complex …

In the first year of life, infants' speech perception attunes to their native language. While the
behavioral changes associated with native language attunement are fairly well mapped, the …

Infants as young as 2 months can integrate audio and visual aspects of speech articulation.
A shift of attention from the eyes towards the mouth of talking faces occurs around 6 months …

Atypical sensory responses are included in the diagnostic criteria of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD). Autistic individuals perform poorly during conditions that require integration …

Infants at high familial risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at increased risk for
language impairments. Studies have demonstrated that atypical brain response to speech is …