Publications

*Indicates publication with a graduate student.

2024/in press

  • Dumont, C., Belenger, M., Eigsti, I. M., & Kissine, M. (in press). Unexpected bilingual autistics display enhanced pitch discrimination. Autism Research.
  • Eigsti, I. M. (2024). The autism constellation and neurodiversity: Long-term and adult outcomes in autism spectrum disorder. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 71(2), 327-341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcl.2024.01.003

  • Eigsti, I. M., & Pouw, W. (in press). Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture:  Effects of neurodiversity and development. Language and Cognition.

    • Girolamo, T., Shen, L., Monroe Gulick, A., Rice, M. L., & Eigsti, I. M. (2024). Studies assessing domains pertaining to structural language in autism vary in reporting practices and approaches to assessment: A systematic review. Autism, 28(7), 1602-1621. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231216155

    • Keating, C. T., Hickman, L., Geelhand, P., Takahashi, T., Leung, J., Schuster, B., Rybicki, A., Girolamo, T. M., Clin, E., Papastamou, F., Belenger, M., Eigsti, I. M., Cook, J. L., Kosaka, H., Osu, R., Okamoto, Y., & Sowden, S. (2024). Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report. PLoS One, e0261774. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261774

    • Kennedy, C. H., Huedo-Medina, T. B., Twachtman-Bassett, J., Kalsner, L., Areny-Joval, R., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2024). Health Condition Co-Morbidities in Children with Autism and Their Association with Challenging Behavior. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-024-00395-0

    • *Thomas, H. R., Sirsikar, A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2024). Brief Report: Convergence and discrepancy between self- and informant-reported depressive symptoms in young autistic adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06230-0

    2023

    • *Crutcher, J., Butler, E., Burke, J. D., Naigles, L., Fein, D. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). Pragmatic language and associations with externalizing behaviors in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those who have lost the ASD diagnosis. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 108, 102252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102252

    • Girolamo, T., Butler, L., Canale, R., Aslin, R. N., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). fNIRS studies of individuals with speech and language impairment underreport participant sociodemographics: A systematic review. Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-023-09618-y (Preregistration doi: 10.31234/osf.io/akrcp)

    • Girolamo, T., Ghali, S., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). A community-based approach to longitudinal language research with racially and ethnically minoritized autistic young adults: Lessons learned and new directions. American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology, 32(3), 977-988. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_ajslp-22-00341

    • Girolamo, T., Shen, L., Monroe-Gulick, A., Rice, M. L., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2023). Studies pertaining to language impairment in school-age autistic individuals underreport participant socio-demographics: A systematic review. Autism, 27(8), 2218-2240. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231166749

    • Larson, C., Kaplan, D., Girolamo, T., Kover, S. T., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). A Bayesian statistics tutorial for clinical research: Prior distributions and meaningful results for small clinical samples. J Clin Psychol, 79(11), 2602-2624. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23570

    • Larson, C., Thomas, H. R., Crutcher, J., Stevens, M. C., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2023). Language networks in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review of connectivity-based fMRI studies. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-023-00382-6

    • Naples, A., Tenenbaum, E. J., Jones, R. N., Righi, G., Sheinkopf, S. J., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). Exploring communicative competence in autistic children who are minimally verbal: The Low Verbal Investigatory Survey for Autism (LVIS). Autism, 27(3), 1391–1406. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613221136657

    • Tunçgenç, B., Koch, C., Eigsti, I.-M., & Mostofsky, S. H. (2023). Mimicry and social affiliation with virtual partner are decreased in autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 100, 102073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2022.102073

    • Weed, E., Fusaroli, R., Simmons, E., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2023). Different in different ways: A network-analysis approach to voice and prosody in autism spectrum disorder. Language Learning and Development, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2023.2196528

    • West, M. J., Somer, E., & Eigsti, I. M. (2023). Immersive and maladaptive daydreaming and divergent thinking in autism spectrum disorders. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 42(4), 372-398. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221129819

    2022

    • *Davis, C. P., Eigsti, I. M., Healy, R., Joergensen, G. H., & Yee, E. (2022). Autism-spectrum traits in neurotypicals predict the embodiment of manipulation knowledge about object concepts: Evidence from eyetracking. PLoS One, 17(7), e0268069. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268069

    • *Davis, C. P., Yee, E., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Beyond the Social Domain: Autism-Spectrum Traits and the Embodiment of Manipulable Object Concepts In S. L. Macrine & J. Fugate (Eds.), Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning (pp. 275-290). MIT University Press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13593.003.0026 Open access.

    • Eigsti, I. M., & Fein, D. A. (2022). Insights from losing the autism diagnosis: Autism spectrum disorder as a biological entity. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 972612. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.972612

    • Eigsti, I. M., Fein, D. A., & Larson, C. (2022). Editorial perspective: Another look at “Optimal Outcome” in ASD. Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13658

    • Eigsti, I. M., Girolamo, T., & Fein, D. A. (2022). Protecting access to early intervention is critical for autistic individuals: Letter to the Editor. JAMA-Pediatrics, 176(12), 1271. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.4141

    • Eigsti, I. M., Thomas, R. P., Stabile, M., Mohan, A., Dieckhaus, M. F. S., Crutcher, J., Taverna, E., & Fein, D. A. (2022). Online administration of the ADOS for research with adolescents and adults in response to the pandemic. Autism Res, 15(10), 1909-1916. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2791

    • Girolamo, T., Castro, N., Hendricks, A. E., Ghali, S., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Implementation of Open Science Practices in Communication Sciences and Disorders Research With Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00272

    • Girolamo, T., Parker, T., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Incorporating DisCrit theory to combat systematic exclusion of BIPOC in clinical neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.988092

    • *Hogstrom, A., Theodore, R., Canfield, A., Castelluccio, B., Green, J. J., Irvine, C., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Social and sensory influences on linguistic alignment: Phonetic convergence in autism spectrum disorder. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 4(1), 102-128. https://doi.org/10.1075/elt.00039.hog

    • Larson, C., Rivera-Figueroa, K., Thomas, H. R., Fein, D., Stevens, M. C., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Structural language impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder versus Loss of Autism Diagnosis: Behavioral and neural characteristics. Neuroimage Clin, 34, 103043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103043. Open access.

    • *Rivera-Figueroa, K., Marfo, N. Y. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Parental perceptions of autism spectrum disorder in latinx and black sociocultural contexts: A systematic review. American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 127(1), 42-63. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-127.1.42

      • *Stabile, M., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Lexical alignment and communicative success in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 65(11), 4300-4305. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00314

      • West, M. J., Somer, E., & Eigsti, I. M. (2022). Shared challenges and comorbidity of maladaptive daydreaming and autism spectrum disorders. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 7(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-022-00279-1

      2021

      2021

      • Delage, H., Eigsti, I. M., Stanford, E., & Durrleman, S. (2021). A preliminary examination of the impact of working memory training on syntax and processing speed in children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(10), 4233-4251. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05295-z

      • Eigsti, I., & Irvine, C. (2021). Verbal mediation of theory of mind in verbal adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Language Acquisition, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1877705

      • Fein, D., Eigsti, I. M., & Barton, M. (2021). Response to “A Radical Change in Our Autism Research Strategy is Needed: Back to Prototypes” by Mottron et al. (2021). Autism Research, 14(10), 2237-2238. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2596

      • Kaur, M., Eigsti, I. M., & Bhat, A. (2021). Effects of a creative yoga intervention on the joint attention and social communication skills, as well as affective states of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2021.101860

      • Perrino, P. A., Chamberlain, S. J., Eigsti, I. M., & Fitch, R. H. (2021). Communication-related assessments in an Angelman syndrome mouse model. Brain and Behavior, 11(1), e01937. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.193

      • Polyanskaya, I., Eigsti, I. M., Brauner, T., & Blackburn, P. (2021). Second-order false beliefs and linguistic recursion in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52(9), 3991-4006. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05277-1

      • Schaeffer, J., Durrleman, S., & Eigsti, I.-M. (2021). On links between language development and extralinguistic cognitive knowledge: What we can learn from autism. Language Acquisition, 28(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2020.1769631

      • *Taverna, E. C., Huedo-Medina, T. B., Fein, D. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2021). The interaction of fine motor, gesture, and structural language skills: The case of autism spectrum disorder. Res Autism Spectr Disord, 86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2021.101824

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