Social communication impairment is one of the key diagnostic features of ASD, with communication deficits being the earliest symptom reported by most parents of children with ASD (Filipek et al., 1999; Landa & Garrett-Meyer, ...

A commonly held view about neurons in early visual cortex is that they serve as localized filters. Here, however, we demonstrate that the responses of neurons in early visual cortex are sensitive to perceptual grouping ...

Behavioral performance often suffers when attention is divided across multiple visual items. These results are supported by fMRI experiments showing reduced responses during divided attention, relative to focused attention, ...

<bold><italic>Objective:<bold><italic> The findings that adults with a history of childhood abuse (CA) have greater emotion regulation difficulties than adult trauma survivors without a history of CA (e.g., Cloitre, ...

Scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) are poorly suited for source analysis. Consequently, it is difficult to assess the relative neural independence of two ERP waveforms using such methods. We report here an ...

The purpose of the present study was to gain a more comprehensive understanding of help-seeking in Asian American youth. The current study examined three major types of categories that impact whether an Asian American youth ...

This study examined the early relationship between executive functioning (EF) and social problem-solving (SPS) skills and their influence on behavioral adjustment by comparing the performance of maltreated and non-maltreated ...

All animals have specific mechanisms in place to guide the numerous decisions they face daily. The act of deciding among possible behaviors is a process that involves learning about the relationships between actions and ...

There is considerable evidence that the amygdala is involved in the processing and expression of emotions, particularly fear. It would therefore be plausible to expect that amygdala-coded fear would also influence voluntary ...

When attempting to recall past events we often imagine what might have been. There is growing evidence that those acts of imagination may lead to memory for events that never happened. Imagination inflation occurs when the ...