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Overview

Kevin A. Pelphrey is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has a research focus within the field of Neuroscience, particularly in Cognitive Neuroscience. Their work covers various subfields including Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Notable recent publications by Kevin A. Pelphrey include:

  • Sex Differences in Functional Connectivity of the Salience, Default Mode, and Central Executive Networks in Youth with ASD, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Modeling idiopathic autism in forebrain organoids reveals an imbalance of excitatory cortical neuron subtypes during early neurogenesis, 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • Resting state EEG in youth with ASD: age, sex, and relation to phenotype, 2021, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • The gap between IQ and adaptive functioning in autism spectrum disorder: Disentangling diagnostic and sex differences, 2021, Autism
  • Imaging-genetics of sex differences in ASD: distinct effects of OXTR variants on brain connectivity, 2020, Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kevin A. Pelphrey include:

  • James C. McPartland
  • Allison Jack
  • Sara Jane Webb
  • John D. Van Horn
  • Raphael Bernier

Kevin A. Pelphrey has published most of their work in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Autism Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Autism

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Fred R. Volkmar;Sally J Rogers;Rhea Paul;Kevin Archer Pelphrey

  • The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

    A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

  • Visual Scanning of Faces in Autism

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;Noah J. Sasson;J. Steven Reznick;Gregory Paul

  • FOXG1-Dependent Dysregulation of GABA/Glutamate Neuron Differentiation in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Jessica Mariani;Gianfilippo Coppola;Ping Zhang;Alexej Abyzov

  • Functional Imaging of Numerical Processing in Adults and 4-y-Old Children

    Jessica F Cantlon;Elizabeth M Brannon;Elizabeth J Carter;Kevin A Pelphrey

  • Three systems of insular functional connectivity identified with cluster analysis.

    Ben Deen;Naomi B. Pitskel;Kevin A. Pelphrey

  • Sex and gender differences in autism spectrum disorder: summarizing evidence gaps and identifying emerging areas of priority

    Alycia K Halladay;Somer Bishop;John N Constantino;Amy M Daniels

  • Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration

    Aaron Stabel;Kimberly Kroeger-Geoppinger;Jennifer McCullagh;Deborah Weiss

  • Neural basis of eye gaze processing deficits in autism

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;James P. Morris;Gregory McCarthy

  • Grasping the Intentions of Others: The Perceived Intentionality of an Action Influences Activity in the Superior Temporal Sulcus during Social Perception

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;James P. Morris;Gregory Mccarthy

  • Tactile Perception in Adults with Autism: a Multidimensional Psychophysical Study

    Carissa Cascio;Francis McGlone;Stephen Folger;Stephen Folger;Vinay Tannan

  • Neural bases for impaired social cognition in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders

    Amy E. Pinkham;Joseph B. Hopfinger;Kevin A. Pelphrey;Joseph Piven

  • Functional Anatomy of Biological Motion Perception in Posterior Temporal Cortex: An fMRI Study of Eye, Mouth and Hand Movements

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;James P. Morris;Charles R. Michelich;Truett Allison

  • When Strangers Pass Processing of Mutual and Averted Social Gaze in the Superior Temporal Sulcus

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;Ronald J. Viola;Gregory McCarthy;Gregory McCarthy

  • Brain activation evoked by perception of gaze shifts: the influence of context

    Kevin A Pelphrey;Jeffrey D Singerman;Truett Allison;Gregory McCarthy;Gregory McCarthy

  • Brain activity evoked by the perception of human walking: controlling for meaningful coherent motion.

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;Teresa V. Mitchell;Martin J. McKeown;Jeremy Goldstein

  • Research review: Constraining heterogeneity: the social brain and its development in autism spectrum disorder.

    Kevin A. Pelphrey;Sarah Shultz;Caitlin M. Hudac;Brent C. Vander Wyk

  • Brain mechanisms for processing affective touch.

    Ilanit Gordon;Avery C. Voos;Randi H. Bennett;Danielle Z. Bolling

  • Oxytocin enhances brain function in children with autism

    Ilanit Gordon;Brent C. Vander Wyk;Randi H. Bennett;Cara Cordeaux

  • Neural signatures of autism

    Martha D Kaiser;Caitlin M Hudac;Sarah Shultz;Su Mei Lee

  • Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: Guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes.

    Nancy L. Zucker;Molly Losh;Cynthia M. Bulik;Kevin S. LaBar

Frequent Co-Authors

James C. McPartland
James C. McPartland Yale University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Raphael Bernier
Raphael Bernier University of Washington
Michael J. Crowley
Michael J. Crowley Yale University
Denis G. Sukhodolsky
Denis G. Sukhodolsky Yale University
Fred R. Volkmar
Fred R. Volkmar Yale University
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Sara Jane Webb
Sara Jane Webb Seattle Children's Hospital
Jessica F. Cantlon
Jessica F. Cantlon Carnegie Mellon University
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania

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