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Overview

Sarah Paterson is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research primarily covers the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Clinical Psychology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics explored in Paterson's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Child Development and Digital Technology, Family and Disability Support Research, Language Development and Disorders, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Reading and Literacy Development.

Paterson has contributed several recent papers to the academic community. These include:

  • "Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning" (2021, Developmental Review)
  • "Sleep Onset Problems and Subcortical Development in Infants Later Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder" (2020, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • "Beyond talk: Contributions of quantity and quality of communication to language success across socioeconomic strata" (2020, Infancy)
  • "Infant vocalizing and phenotypic outcomes in autism: Evidence from the first 2 years" (2021, Child Development)
  • "Contingent conversations build more than language: How communicative interactions in toddlerhood relate to preschool executive function skills" (2022, Developmental Science)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Paterson include Joseph Piven, Stephen R. Dager, Annette Estes, Heather C. Hazlett, and Jed T. Elison.

The venues where Paterson has most frequently published are UNC Libraries, Frontiers in Communication, Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine), Developmental Review, and American Journal of Psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Early brain development in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Heather Cody Hazlett;Hongbin Gu;Brent C. Munsell;Sun Hyung Kim

  • Differences in white matter fiber tract development present from 6 to 24 months in infants with autism.

    Jason J. Wolff;Hongbin Gu;Guido Gerig;Jed T. Elison

  • Cognitive Modularity and Genetic Disorders

    S. J. Paterson;J. H. Brown;M. K. Gsödl;M. H. Johnson

  • Functional neuroimaging of high-risk 6-month-old infants predicts a diagnosis of autism at 24 months of age

    Robert W. Emerson;Chloe Adams;Tomoyuki Nishino;Heather Cody Hazlett

  • Behavioral, cognitive, and adaptive development in infants with autism spectrum disorder in the first 2 years of life

    Annette Estes;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Hongbin Gu;Tanya St. John

  • Spatial representation and attention in toddlers with Williams syndrome and Down syndrome

    Janice H Brown;Mark H Johnson;Sarah J Paterson;Rick Gilmore

  • Atypical development of language and social communication in toddlers with Williams syndrome

    Emma Laing;George Butterworth;Daniel Ansari;Marisa Gsödl

  • White Matter Microstructure and Atypical Visual Orienting in 7-Month-Olds at Risk for Autism

    Jed T. Elison;Sarah J. Paterson;Jason J. Wolff;J. Steven Reznick

  • Past tense formation in Williams syndrome

    Michael S.C. Thomas;Julia Grant;Zita Barham;Marisa Gsödl

  • Dethroning the myth: cognitive dissociations and innate modularity in Williams syndrome.

    Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Janice H. Brown;Sarah Grice;Sarah Paterson

  • Increased Extra-axial Cerebrospinal Fluid in High-Risk Infants Who Later Develop Autism

    Mark D. Shen;Sun Hyung Kim;Robert C. McKinstry;Hongbin Gu

  • Longitudinal patterns of repetitive behavior in toddlers with autism.

    Jason J. Wolff;Kelly N. Botteron;Stephen R. Dager;Jed T. Elison

  • Phonological short-term memory and its relationship to language in Williams Syndrome

    Julia Grant;Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Susan A. Gathercole;Sarah Paterson

  • Are numerical impairments syndrome specific? Evidence from Williams syndrome and Down's syndrome

    Sarah J. Paterson;Luisa Girelli;Brian Butterworth;Annette Karmiloff-Smith

  • Joint Attention and Brain Functional Connectivity in Infants and Toddlers

    Adam T. Eggebrecht;Jed T. Elison;Eric Feczko;Alexandre Todorov

  • Development of structure and function in the infant brain: implications for cognition, language and social behaviour.

    Sarah J. Paterson;Sabine Heim;Jennifer Thomas Friedman;Naseem Choudhury

  • Early Word Segmentation by Infants and Toddlers With Williams Syndrome

    Thierry Nazzi;Sarah Paterson;Annette Karmiloff-Smith

  • The Emergence of Network Inefficiencies in Infants With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    John D. Lewis;Alan C. Evans;John R. Pruett;Kelly N. Botteron

  • Detecting continuity violations in infancy: a new account and new evidence from covering and tube events

    Su Hua Wang;Renée Baillargeon;Sarah Paterson

  • Neural circuitry at age 6 months associated with later repetitive behavior and sensory responsiveness in autism.

    Jason J. Wolff;Meghan R. Swanson;Jed T. Elison;Guido Gerig

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert T. Schultz
Robert T. Schultz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Annette Estes
Annette Estes University of Washington
Jed T. Elison
Jed T. Elison University of Minnesota
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
John N. Constantino
John N. Constantino Washington University in St. Louis
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University
Geraldine Dawson
Geraldine Dawson Duke University
Wendy L. Stone
Wendy L. Stone University of Washington

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