Publications

In Press

  • McPartland, J. & Pelphrey, K. (in press). The implications of social neuroscience for social disability. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.PMID: 22456816. 
  • Tanaka, J., Wolf, J., Klaiman, C., Koenig, K., Cockburn, J., Herlihy, L., Brown, C., Stahl, S., South, M., McPartland, J., Kaiser, M. & Schultz, R. (in press). The perception and identification of facial emotions in individuals with autism spectrum disorders using the Let’s Face It! Emotion Skills Battery. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
  • McPartland, J., Crowley, M., Perszyk, D., Mukerji, C., Naples, A., Wu, J. & Mayes, L. (in press). Preserved reward outcome processing in ASD as revealed by event-related potentials.Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

2012

  • Pelphrey, K. & McPartland, J. (2012). Brain development: Neural signature predicts autism’s emergence. Current Biology, 22(4),R127-128.PMID: 22361148. 
  • McPartland, J., Reichow, B. & Volkmar, F. (2012). Sensitivity and specificity of proposed DSM-V diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51(4), 368-383.PMID: 22449643. 

2011

  • McPartland, J., Webb, S., Keehn, B. & Dawson, G. (2011). Patterns of visual attention to faces and objects in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41,148-157. PMID: 20499148. 
  • Bolling, D., Pitskel, N., Deen, B., Crowley, M., McPartland, J., Mayes, L. & Pelphrey, K. (2011). Dissociable brain mechanisms for processing social exclusion and rule violation. NeuroImage,54(3), 2462-2471. PMID: 20974272.
  • Carter, A. & McPartland, J. (2011). Sara S. Sparrow (1933-2010). American Psychologist, 66(2),144.
  • McPartland, J., Crowley, M., Perszyk, D., Naples, A., Mukerji, C., Wu, J., Molfese, P., Bolling, Z., Pelphrey, K., Klin, A. & Mayes, L. (2011). Temporal dynamics reveal atypical brain response to social exclusion in autism.  Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(3),271-279. PMID: 21731598. 
  • Bolling, D., Pitskel, N., Deen, B., Crowley, M., McPartland, J., Kaiser, M., Vander Wyk, B., Wu, J., Mayes, L. & Pelphrey, K. (2011). Enhanced neural responses to rule violation in children with autism: A comparison to social exclusion. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(3),280-294.PMID: 21743819. 
  • McPartland, J., Coffman, M. & Pelphrey, K. (2011). Recent advances in understanding the neural bases of autism spectrum disorder. Current Opinions in Pediatrics, 23(6), 628-632.PMID: 21970830.
  • McPartland, J., Wu, J., Bailey, C., Mayes, L., Schultz, R. & Klin, A. (2011). Atypical neural specialization for social percepts in autism spectrum disorder. Social Neuroscience, 6(5-6),436-451. PMID: 21777159. 

2010

  • Cheung, C., Rutherford, H., Mayes, L. & McPartland, J. (2010). Neural responses to faces reflect social personality traits. Social Neuroscience, 5,351-359. PMID: 20544557. 
  • McPartland, J., Cheung, C., Perszyk, D. & Mayes, L. (2010). Face-related ERPs are modulated by point of gaze. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3657-3660. PMID: 20654637. 

2009 and prior

  • McPartland, J. & Volkmar, F. (2009). Current clinical practice in Asperger’s disorder.Psychiatric Times,26(11),52-56.
  • Wolf, J., Tanaka, J., Klaiman, C., Cockburn, J., Herlihy, L., Brown, C., South, M., McPartland, J., Kaiser, M., Phillips, R. & Schultz, R. (2008). Specific impairment of face processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let’s Face It!skills battery.Autism Research, 1,329-340. PMID: 19360688. 
  • McPartland, J. & Klin, A. (2006).  Asperger syndrome. Adolescent Medicine Clinics of North America, 17,771-788. PMID: 17030291. 
  • Dawson, G., Webb, S. & McPartland, J. (2005). Understanding the nature of face processing impairment in autism: Insights from behavioral and electrophysiological studies.Developmental Neuropsychology, 27,403-424. PMID: 15843104. 
  • McPartland, J., Dawson, G., Webb, S., Panagiotides, H. & Carver, L. (2004). Event-related brain potentials reveal anomalies in temporal processing of faces in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 45,1235-1245. PMID: 15335344. 
  • Dawson, G., Webb, S., Carver, L., Panagiotides, H. & McPartland, J. (2004). Young children with autism show atypical brain responses to fearful versus neutral facial expressions of emotion. Developmental Science, 7,340-359. PMID: 15595374. 
  • Carver, L., Dawson, G., Panagiotides, H., Meltzoff, A., McPartland, J., Gray, J. & Munson, J. (2003). Age-related differences in neural correlates of face recognition during the toddler and preschool years. Developmental Psychobiology, 42,148-159. PMID: 12555279.
  • Dawson, G., Munson, J., Estes, A., Osterling, J., McPartland, J., Toth, K., Carver, L. & Abbott, R. (2002). Neurocognitive function and joint attention ability in young children with autism spectrum disorder versus developmental delay. Child Development, 73,345-358. PMID:11949896. 
  • Dawson, G., Carver, L., Meltzoff, A., Panagiotides, H. & McPartland, J. (2002). Neural correlates of face and object recognition in young children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, and typical development. Child Development, 73,700-717. PMID:12038546. 
  • Dawson, G., Osterling, J., Rinaldi, J., Carver, L. & McPartland, J. (2001).  Brief report: Recognition memory and stimulus-reward associations: Indirect support for the role of ventromedial prefrontal dysfunction in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 31,337-341. PMID: 11518486.

2013

2012

  • Bernier, R., Aaronson, D. & McPartland, J. (2012, May). Sources of variable functionality of the execution/observation matching system in ASD.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Toronto, Canada.

2011

  • Sukhodolsky, D., Bolling, D., Wu, J., Crowley, M., McPartland, J., Scahill, L. & Pelphrey, K. (2011, October). Cognitive behavior therapy for irritability and disruptive behavior in high-functioning autism: Pilot study of neurobiological mechanisms.Poster presented at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
  • McPartland, J., Perszyk, D., Crowley, M., Naples, A. & Mayes, L. (2011, August). Visual attention modulates neural response to faces in children with autism. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
  • Cheung C., Perszyk, D., Mayes, L.C. & McPartland, J. (2011, May). Positions of gaze fixation influence face-related ERPs. Poster presented at the UCL/AFC Conference on the Implications of Research on the Neuroscience of Affect, Attachment and Social Cognition, London, UK. .
  • Mukerji, C. E., Bernier, R. A., Perszyk, D., Naples, A., Fogel, A. & McPartland, J. (2011, May).Neural mechanisms for empathy for physical and social pain and their relation to autistic traits.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Naples, A., Perszyk, D., Crowley, M. J., Wu, J., Mayes, L. & McPartland, J. (2011, May). Face processing delays in ASD are robust to variations in visual attention.Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Nguyen-Phuc, A.Y., Perszyk, D., Naples, A. & McPartland, J. (2011, May). Feature binding of social versus non-social stimuli in children with ASD.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Perszyk, D., Crowley, M., Naples, A., Wu, J., Nguyen-Phuc, A., Viktorinova, M., Mayes, L. & McPartland, J. (2011, May). Neural mechanisms of reward processing in ASD.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Sukhodolsky, D., Bolling, D., Wu, J., Crowley, M., McPartland, J., Scahill, L. & Pelphrey, K. (2011, May). Cognitive behavior therapy for irritability in high-functioning ASD: Pilot study of neurobiological mechanisms.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Viktorinova, M., Perszyk, D., Wu, J., Naples, A., Rutherford, H., Mayes, L. & McPartland, J. (2011, May). Temporal dynamics of subliminal and supraliminal emotional face perception in individuals with autistic traits. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • McPartland, J. Child psychopathology and neural probes of core processes (Discussant). (2011, April). Paper symposium presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

2010

  • McPartland, J., Crowley, M., Molfese, P., Perszyk, D., Klin, A. & Mayes, L. (2010, August).Behavioral and brain responses to social exclusion in children with autism.Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
  • McPartland, J., Crowley, M., Molfese, P., Perszyk, D., Klin, A. & Mayes, L. (2010, May). Neural correlates of social exclusion in autism spectrum disorder.Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Kilroy, E., Cheung, C., Perszyk, D., Mayes, L. & McPartland, J. (2010, May). Autistic-like behaviors, social personality characteristics, and neural correlates of face perception in the general population.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Perszyk, D., Molfese, P., Kilroy, E., Mayes, L., Klin, A. & McPartland, J. (2010, May).Developmental changes in brain bases of face perception as revealed by ERPs.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA.

2009 and prior

  • McPartland, J., Schultz, R., Mayes, L. & Klin, A. (2009, August). Preserved neural specialization for non-social information in autism. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada.
  • Cheung, C., Morrow, V., Mayes, L. & McPartland, J. (2009, August). Neural correlates of cartoon versus human faces: A pilot study. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada.
  • McPartland, J., Wiu, J., Schultz, R. & Klin, A. (2009, May). Neural specialization for faces and letters in autism. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Chicago, IL.
  • Shultz, S., Jones, W., Klin, A. & McPartland, J. (2009, May). Immediate social context in face processing: An ERP study of autism.Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Chicago, IL.
  • McPartland, J., Bailey, C., Schultz, R. & Klin, A. (2008, May). Neural correlates of perceptual expertise in autism. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, London, UK.
  • Wolf, J., Tanaka, J., Klaiman, C., Koenig, K., Cockburn, J., Herlihy, L., Brown, C., Stahl, S., South, M., McPartland, J. & Schultz, R. (2008, May). Let’s Face It!: A computer-based intervention for strengthening face processing skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorders.Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, London, UK.
  • Shultz, S., Jones, W., Klin, A. & McPartland, J. (2008, May). The role of context in face processing: An ERP study of adolescents with autism. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, London, UK.
  • McPartland, J., Klin, A. & Schultz, R. (2008, March). Non-social perceptual expertise in autism. Poster presented at the National Annual Meeting for Clinical and Translational Science Award Clinical Research Scholars, the NIH National Clinical Research Resources, and the Association for Clinical Research Training, Washington, DC.
  • McPartland, J., Dawson, G., Webb, S. & Keehn, B. (2005, May). Patterns of visual attention and face recognition in Asperger syndrome. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Boston, MA.
  • McPartland, J., Dawson, G., Webb, S. & Keehn, B. (2005, April). Object form and face recognition impairments in Asperger syndrome. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
  • Webb, S., Keil, A., McPartland, J., Shook, J. & Dawson, G. (2005, April). Gamma activation during object perception and memory in teens with autism and typical development. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
  • Webb, S., McPartland, J., Panagiotides, H. & Dawson, G. (2002, November). Gamma activity as a marker of facial processing abnormalities in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Orlando, FL.
  • Dawson, G., Carver, L., Panagiotides, H. & McPartland, J. (2001, November). High-density event-related potentials to fear and neutral facial expressions by children with autism spectrum disorders. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • McPartland, J., Dawson, G., Carver, L. & Panagiotides, H. (2001, November). Neural correlates of face processing in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Werner, E., Dawson, G., Munson, J., Osterling, J. & McPartland, J. (2001, November). Autistic regression and outcome at 3-4 years of age. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, CA.
  • Dawson, G., Carver, L., Panagiotides, H. & McPartland, J. (2001, April). Neural correlates of face recognition in young children with autism and typical development. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
  • McPartland, J. & Panagiotides, H. (2001, April). Neural correlates of face perception in autism. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Aylward, E., Dawson, G., Meltzoff, A., Panagiotides, H., Steury, K. & McPartland, J. (2000, February). Functional MRI of autistic individuals during a face perception task. Paper presented at the Meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, Fort Myers, FL.
  • Carver, L., Dawson, G., Wewerka, S., Gray, J., Panagiotides, H., McPartland, J., Tribby-Walbridge, S., Rinaldi, J. & Werner, E. (1999, April). Neural correlates of recognition memory during the second year of life. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Ozonoff, S., Dawson, G. & McPartland, J. (2002). A parent’s guide to Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism: How to meet the challenges and help your child thrive.  New York: Guilford. 
  • McPartland, J. (2009). Face and object perception in Asperger syndrome.Koln, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing.