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Overview

Tiziana Zalla is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France, where their research primarily focuses on the intersections of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their work spans several main fields of study, including Neuroscience, Psychology, and Medicine, with a specialization in subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics explored in their research cover Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child and Animal Learning Development, Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies, Retinopathy of Prematurity Studies, and Child Development and Digital Technology.

Their recent publications reflect these interests with studies that include:

  • The inter-relationships between cerebral visual impairment, autism and intellectual disability, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Visual attention and inhibitory control in children, teenagers and adults with autism without intellectual disability: results of oculomotor tasks from a 2-year longitudinal follow-up study (InFoR), 2021, Molecular Autism
  • Emotional face recognition in autism and in cerebral visual impairments: In search for specificity, 2020, Journal of Neuropsychology
  • Temporal preparation in adults with autistic spectrum disorder: The variable foreperiod effect, 2021, Autism Research
  • A mind-reading puzzle: Autistic people are more efficient at a theory-of-mind task, 2023, Research in autism spectrum disorders

Tiziana Zalla has worked collaboratively with several researchers, frequently coauthoring with:

  • Richard Delorme
  • Marion Leboyer
  • Sylvie Chokron
  • Klara Kovarski
  • Anouck Amestoy

Their studies have appeared in key publication venues related to autism and neuroscience, including:

  • Molecular Autism
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Journal of Neuropsychology
  • Autism Research
  • Research in autism spectrum disorders

Zalla's research contributions reflect an interdisciplinary approach, integrating behavioral analysis with neuropsychological and medical perspectives. Topics such as cerebral visual impairment and autism spectrum disorder are recurrent in their work, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to understanding developmental and neurological conditions through cognitive neuroscience and psychological frameworks.

Best Publications

  • The human amygdala: an evolved system for relevance detection.

    David Sander;Jordan Grafman;Tiziana Zalla

  • Promoting social behavior with oxytocin in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders

    Elissar Andari;Jean René Duhamel;Tiziana Zalla;Evelyn Herbrecht

  • Neuropsychological testing of cognitive impairment in euthymic bipolar disorder: an individual patient data meta-analysis

    C. Bourne;C. Bourne;Ö. Aydemir;V. Balanzá-Martínez;E. Bora

  • Executive dysfunctions as potential markers of familial vulnerability to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

    Tiziana Zalla;Cécile Joyce;Andrei Szöke;Franck Schürhoff

  • Selective impairments in managerial knowledge following pre-frontal cortex damage.

    Angela Sirigu;Tiziana Zalla;Bernard Pillon;Jordan Grafman

  • Differential amygdala responses to winning and losing: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in humans

    Tiziana Zalla;Etienne Koechlin;Pietro Pietrini;Pietro Pietrini;Gianpaolo Basso

  • Encoding of sequence and boundaries of scripts following prefrontal lesions.

    Angela Sirigu;Tiziana Zalla;Bernard Pillon;Jordan Grafman

  • Faux pas detection and intentional action in Asperger Syndrome. A replication on a French sample.

    Tiziana Zalla;Anca-Maria Sav;Astrid Stopin;Sabrina Ahade

  • Distinct frontal regions for processing sentence syntax and story grammar.

    A. Sirigu;L. Cohen;T. Zalla;T. Zalla;P. Pradat-Diehl

  • Moral judgment in adults with autism spectrum disorders

    Tiziana Zalla;Luca Barlassina;Luca Barlassina;Marine Buon;Marion Leboyer

  • Perception of action boundaries in patients with frontal lobe damage

    Tiziana Zalla;Pascale Pradat-Diehl;Angela Sirigu

  • Perception of dynamic action in patients with schizophrenia

    Tiziana Zalla;Isabelle Verlut;Nicolas Franck;Didier Puzenat

  • Action planning in a virtual context after prefrontal cortex damage.

    Tiziana Zalla;Cécile Plassiart;Bernard Pillon;Jordan Grafman

  • The amygdala and the relevance detection theory of autism: an evolutionary perspective.

    Tiziana Zalla;Marco Sperduti

  • The Role of Causal and Intentional Judgments in Moral Reasoning in Individuals with High Functioning Autism

    Marine Buon;Emmanuel Dupoux;Pierre Jacob;Pauline Chaste

  • Reduced sensitivity to social priors during action prediction in adults with autism spectrum disorders

    Valerian Chambon;Valerian Chambon;Chlöé Farrer;Elisabeth Pacherie;Pierre O. Jacquet

  • Individuals with autism spectrum disorders do not use social stereotypes in irony comprehension.

    Tiziana Zalla;Frederique Amsellem;Pauline Chaste;Francesca Ervas

  • Planning and Script Analysis following Prefrontal Lobe Lesions

    Angela Sirigu;Tiziana Zalla;Tiziana Zalla;Bernard Pillon;Jordan Grafman

  • Predicting ensuing actions in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders

    Tiziana Zalla;Nelly Labruyère;Amélie Clément;Nicolas Georgieff

  • The inter-relationships between cerebral visual impairment, autism and intellectual disability.

    S. Chokron;S. Chokron;K. Kovarski;T. Zalla;G.N. Dutton

  • Mental rotation in schizophrenia

    Frédérique de Vignemont;Tiziana Zalla;Andrés Posada;Anne Louvegnez

Frequent Co-Authors

Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Angela Sirigu
Angela Sirigu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jordan Grafman
Jordan Grafman Northwestern University
Nicolas Franck
Nicolas Franck Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Sylvie Chokron
Sylvie Chokron Université Paris Cité
Pascale Piolino
Pascale Piolino Université Paris Cité
Yves Agid
Yves Agid Institut du Cerveau
Etienne Koechlin
Etienne Koechlin Grenoble Alpes University
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure

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