Publications | Connecticut Autism and Language Lab (CALL)

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In press

2024

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.
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. (in press). Health condition co-morbidities in children with autism and their association with challenging behavior. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities.
*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 assessing domains pertaining to structural language in autism vary in reporting practices and approaches to assessment: A systematic review. Autism, 13623613231216155. https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231216155
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.
- See also a Philosophy of Brains blog discussing this work.
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., 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

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05295-z
Eigsti, I. M. & *Irvine, C. A. (2021). Verbal mediation of theory of mind in verbal adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Language Acquisition, 28(2), 195-213. doi:10.1080/10489223.2021.1877705
Fein, D., Eigsti, I. M., & Barton, M. (2021). Letter to the Editor: 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., Bhat, A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2021). Effects of creative yoga intervention on the joint attention, social communication, and affective states of children with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 88 (101860). doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2021.101860
*Polyanskaya, I., Eigsti, I. M., Brauner, T., & Blackburn, P. (2021). Second-order false beliefs and linguistic recursion in autism spectrum disorder. J Autism Dev Disord. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05277-1
*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

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

2020

Eigsti, I. M., Fein, D. A., & Dumont-Mathieu, T. (2020). A Response to the “Challenging Cases” Article, “Questioning a Previous Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: Can You ‘Lose’ the Diagnosis?”. J Dev Behav Pediatr. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000826
Jaffe-Dax, S., & Eigsti, I.M. (2020). Perceptual inference is impaired in individuals with ASD and intact in individuals who have lost the autism diagnosis. Nature Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-72896-6

2017-2018

*Brynskov, C., Eigsti, I. M., Jørgensen, M., Lemcke, S., Bohn, O.-S., & Krøjgaard, P. (2017). Syntax and morphology in Danish-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(2), 373-383. doi:10.1007/s10803-016-2962-7
*Dai, Y. G., Burke, J. D., Naigles, L., Eigsti, I. M., & Fein, D. A. (2018). Language abilities in monolingual- and bilingual-exposed children with autism or other developmental disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 55, 38-49. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2018.08.001
Eigsti, I. M., & de Marchena, A. (2017). Perspectives on gesture from autism spectrum disorder: Alterations in timing and function. Behav Brain Sci., 40:e53.(doi), 10.1017/S0140525X15002885.
*Green, J. J., & Eigsti, I. M. (2017). Cell-phone vs microphone recordings: Judging emotion in the voice. J Acoust Soc Am., 142(3), 1261. doi: 1210.1121/1261.5000482.
Hall, M. L., Eigsti, I. M., Bortfeld, H., & Lillo-Martin, D. (2018). Executive function in deaf children: Auditory access and language access. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 16(8), 1970-1988. doi:10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0281
Hall, M. L., Eigsti, I. M., Bortfeld, H., & Lillo-Martin, D. (2018). Auditory access, language access, and implicit sequence learning in deaf children. Dev Sci, 21(3), e12575. doi:10.1111/desc.12575
Silverman, L. B., Eigsti, I. M., & Bennetto, L. (2017). I tawt I taw a puddy tat: Gestures in Canary Row narrations by high-functioning adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 10(8), 1353-1363. doi:10.1002/aur.178

2015-2016

*Brynskov, C., Krøjgaard, P., & Eigsti, I. M. (2015). Language and communication in children with autism: A critical look at three assumptions and their clinical implications. Nordic Psychology. doi:10.1080/19012276.2015.1071199
*Canfield, A. R., Eigsti, I. M., de Marchena, A., & Fein, D. (2016). Story goodness in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and in optimal outcomes from ASD. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 59, 533–545. doi:10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-15-0022
*Castelluccio, B. C., Myers, E. B., Schuh, J. M., & Eigsti, I. M. (2016). Neural substrates of processing anger in language: Contributions of prosody and semantics. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(6), 1359-1367. doi:10.1007/s10936-015-9405-z
*de Marchena, A. B., Eigsti, I.M., & Yerys, B. E. (2015). Brief Report: Generalization weaknesses in verbally fluent children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 3370-6. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2478-6.
*de Marchena, A., & Eigsti, I.M. (2015). The art of common ground: emergence of a complex pragmatic language skill in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Language, 24, 1-38.
Eigsti, I. M., Rosset, D., Col Cozzari, G., da Fonseca, D., & Deruelle, C. (2015). Effects of motor action on affective preferences in autism spectrum disorders: different influences of embodiment. Developmental Science, 18, 1044-53.
Eigsti, I. M., Stevens, M., Schultz, R., Barton, M., Kelley, E., Naigles, L. R., . . . Fein, D. A. (2016). Language comprehension and brain function in individuals with optimal outcomes from autism. NeuroImage: Clinical, 10, 182-91.
*Fitch, A., Fein, D. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2015). Detail and gestalt focus in individuals with optimal outcomes from autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 1887-96. doi: 10.007/s10803-014-2347-8.
Hall, M. L., Eigsti, I. M., Bortfeld, H., & Lillo-Martin, D. (2016). Auditory deprivation does not impair executive function, but language deprivation might: Evidence from a parent-report measure in Deaf native signing children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 22, 9-21. doi:10.1093/deafed/enw054
*Irvine, C. A., Eigsti, I. M., & Fein, D. A. (2016). Uh, Um, and autism: Filler disfluencies as pragmatic markers in adolescents with optimal outcomes from autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 1061-70.
*Jaworski, J. L., & Eigsti, I. M. (2015). Low-level visual attention and its relation to joint attention in autism spectrum disorder. Child Neuropsychology, 15, 1-16.
*Orinstein, A., Tyson, K. E., Suh, J., Troyb, E., Helt, M., Rosenthal, M., Barton, M. L., Eigsti, I.M., . . Fein, D. A. (2015). Psychiatric symptoms in youth with a history of autism and optimal outcome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 3703-14. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2520-8.
*Orinstein, A. J., Suh, J., Porter, K., De Yoe, K. A., Tyson, K. E., Troyb, E., Barton, M., Eigsti, I.M. . . . Fein, D. A. (2015). Social function and communication in optimal outcome children and adolescents with an autism history on structured test measures. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 2443-63. doi: 10.1007/s10803-015-2409-6.
*Rendall, A. R., Truong, D. T., Castelluccio, B. C., Eigsti, I. M., & Fitch, R. H. (2015). Language deficits in autism and assessment of the Cntnap2 mouse. Int J Dev Neurosci., 47(Pt A), 93. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2015.1004.1253.
*Schuh, J. M., Eigsti, I. M., & Mirman, D. (2016). Discourse comprehension in autism spectrum disorder: Effects of working memory load and common ground. Autism Research, 9(12), 1340-1352. doi: 1310.1002/aur.1632. Epub 2016 Apr 1319.
*Srinivasan, S. M., Eigsti, I. M., Neelly, L., & Bhat, A. N. (2016). The effects of embodied rhythm and robotic interventions on the social attention patterns of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 27, 54-72. doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2016.01.004
*Srinivasan, S. M., Eigsti, I. M., Gifford, T., & Bhat, A. N. (2016). The effects of embodied rhythm and robotic interventions on the spontaneous and responsive verbal communication skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A further outcome of a pilot randomized controlled trial. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 27, 73-87. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2016.04.001
*Suh, J., Orinstein, A., Barton, M., Chen, C. M., Eigsti, I. M., Ramirez-Esparza, N., & Fein, D. (2016). Ratings of Broader Autism Phenotype and Personality Traits in Optimal Outcomes from Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord, 46, 3505-18.
*Truong, D. T., Rendall, A. R., Castelluccio, B. C., Eigsti, I. M., & Fitch, R. H. (2015). Auditory Processing and Morphological Anomalies in Medial Geniculate Nucleus of Cntnap2 Mutant Mice. Behav Neurosci, 26. doi:10.1037/bne0000096

2012-2014

*Bean, J. L., & Eigsti, I. M. (2012). Assessment of joint attention in school-age children and adolescents. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6, 1304-10.
de Marchena, A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2014). Context counts: The impact of social context on gesture rate in verbally fluent adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Gesture, 14(3), 375–393. https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.14.3.05mar
Eigsti, I. M. (2013). A review of embodiment in autism spectrum disorders. Frontiers in psychology, 4:224., 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00224. eCollection 2013.
Eigsti, I.M., & Fein, D. A. (2013). More is less: pitch discrimination and language delays in children with optimal outcomes from autism. Autism Research, 6, 605-13. doi: 10.1002/aur.324.
Eigsti, I. M., Schuh, J. M., Mencl, E., Schultz, R. T., & Paul, R. (2012). The neural underpinnings of prosody in autism. Child Neuropsychology, 18, 600-17.
Fein, D., Barton, M., Eigsti, I. M., Kelley, E., Naigles, L. R., Schultz, R. T., . . . Tyson, K. (2013). Optimal outcome in individuals with a history of autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54, 195-205. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12037.
*Mayo, J., & Eigsti, I. M. (2012). A comparison of statistical learning in school-aged children with high functioning autism and typically developing peers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 2476-85.
*Mayo, J., Chlebowski, C., Fein, D. A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2013). Age of first words predicts cognitive ability and adaptive skills in children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 253-64. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1558-0.
*Orinstein, A. J., Suh, J., Porter, K., De Yoe, K. A., Tyson, K. E., Troyb, E., Barton, M., Eigsti, I.M., Stevens, M.C. & Fein, D. A. (2015). Social function and communication in optimal outcome children and adolescents with an autism history on structured test measures. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(8), 2443-2463. doi: 2410.1007/s10803-10015-12409-10806.
*Orinstein, A. J., Helt, M., Troyb, E., Tyson, K. E., Barton, M. L., Eigsti, I.M., . . . Fein, D. A. (2014). Intervention history of children and adolescents with high-functioning autism and optimal outcomes. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 35, 247-56. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000037.
*Schuh, J. M., & Eigsti, I. M. (2012). Working memory, language skills, and autism symptomatology. Behavioral Sciences, 2, 207-18.
*Troyb, E., Rosenthal, M., Eigsti, I. M., Kelley, E., Tyson, K., Orinstein, A., . . . Fein, D. (2014). Executive functioning in individuals with a history of ASDs who have achieved optimal outcomes. Child Neuropsychology, 20, 378-97. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2013.799644. Epub 2013 Jun 3.
*Troyb, E., Orinstein, A., Tyson, K., Helt, M., Eigsti, I.M., Stevens, M., & Fein, D. (2014). Academic abilities in children and adolescents with a history of autism spectrum disorders who have achieved optimal outcomes. Autism, 18, 233-43. doi: 10.1177/1362361312473519. Epub 2013 Oct 4.
*Troyb, E., Orinstein, A., Tyson, K., Eigsti, I.M., Naigles, L., & Fein, D. (2014). Restricted and repetitive behaviors in individuals with a history of ASDs who have achieved optimal outcomes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 3168-84.
*Tyson, K., Kelley, E., Fein, D., Orinstein, A., Troyb, E., Barton, M., Eigsti, I.M., . . . Rosenthal, M. (2014). Language and verbal memory in individuals with a history of autism spectrum disorders who have achieved optimal outcomes. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 648-63.

Through 2011

*Brynskov, C., & Eigsti, I. M. (2010). Det tidlige sprog hos børn med autisme – en udviklingsmæssigt afgørende faktor [The critical influence of early language abilities in autism on longterm outcomes]. Psyke & Logos, 31, 443-60.
*de Marchena, A., & Eigsti, I. M. (2010). Conversational gestures in autism spectrum disorders: Asynchrony but not decreased frequency. Autism Research, 3, 311-22.
*de Marchena, A., Eigsti, I. M., Worek, A., Ono, K. E., & Snedeker, J. (2011). Mutual exclusivity in autism spectrum disorders: Testing the pragmatic hypothesis. Cognition, 119, 96-113.
Durston, S., Tottenham, N. T., Thomas, K. M., Davidson, M. C., Eigsti, I. M., Yang, Y., . . . Casey, B. J. (2003). Differential patterns of striatal activation in young children with and without ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 53, 871-8.
Eigsti, I. M., & Bennetto, L. (2009). Grammaticality judgments in autism spectrum disorders: Deviance or delay. Journal of Child Language, 19, 1-23.
Eigsti, I. M., Bennetto, L., & Dadlani, M. B. (2007). Beyond pragmatics: Morphosyntactic development in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1007-23.
Eigsti, I. M., & Cicchetti, D. (2004). The impact of child maltreatment on expressive syntax at 60 months. Developmental Science, 7, 88-102.
Eigsti, I. M., & Schuh, J. M. (2008). Neurobiological underpinnings of language in autism spectrum disorders. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 28, 128-49.
Eigsti, I. M., & Shapiro, T. (2003). A systems neuroscience approach to autism: Biological, cognitive and clinical perspectives. Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 9, 205-15.
Eigsti, I.M., Weitzman, C., Schuh, J. M., de Marchena, A., & Casey, B. J. (2011). Language and cognitive outcomes in internationally adopted children. Development and Psychopathology, 23, 629-46.
Eigsti, I. M., de Marchena, A. B., Schuh, J. M., & Kelley, E. (2011). Language acquisition in autism spectrum disorders: A developmental review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5, 681-91.
Eigsti, I. M., Zayas, V., Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., Ayduk, O., Dadlani, M. B., . . . Casey, B. J. (2006). Predicting cognitive control from preschool to late adolescence and young adulthood. Psychological Science, 17, 478-84.
Fifer, W. P., Byrd, D. L., Kaku, M., Eigsti, I. M., Isler, J. R., Grose-Fifer, J., & Balsam, P. D. (2010). Newborn infants learn during sleep. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 10320-3.
*Helt, M. S., Eigsti, I. M., Snyder, P. J., & Fein, D. A. (2010). Contagious yawning in autistic and typical development. Child Development, 81, 1620-31.
Hudson, C. L., & Eigsti, I. M. (2003). Lexical competency, the overt expression of grammatical structure, and contrasts between pidgins and creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 18, 1-79.
Masino, S. M., Kawamura, M., Jr., Plotkin, L. M., Svedova, J., DiMario, F. J., Jr., & Eigsti, I.M. (2011). The relationship between the neuromodulator adenosine and behavioral symptoms of autism. Neuroscience Letters, 500, 1-5.
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