Brief CV

Submitted Manuscripts

Ward, E. K. & Press, C. (Submitted). Surprise impairs perception of surprising, and incidental, events. Link to preprint Link to code

Ward, E. K., Rutar, D., Zaadnoordijk, L., Poli, F., & Hunnius, S. (In revision). Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy. Link to preprint

Belteki, Z., Ward, E. K., et al. (In revision). Assessing language in infants with an elevated likelihood or diagnosis of autism: The association between parent- versus researcher-administered measures. Link to preprint

Publications

Ward, E. K., Buitelaar, J. K. & Hunnius, S. (2024). Autistic and non-autistic adolescents do not differ in adaptation to gaze direction. Autism Research. Link to paper Link to code 

Ward, E. K. & Press, C. (2024) Sixty years of predictive perception. Cortex, 170, 57-63. Link to paper

Köster, M., Brzozowska, A., Bánki, A., Tünte, M., Ward, E. K. & Hoehl, S. (2023) Rhythmic visual stimulation as a window into early brain development: a systematic review. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 64, 101315. Link to paper

Menn, K. H., Ward, E. K. , Braukmann, R., van den Boomen, C., Buitelaar, J., Hunnius, S. & Snijders, T. M. (2022) Neural tracking in infancy predicts language development in children with and without family history of autism. Neurobiology of Language, 3(3), 495-514. Link to paper

Ward, E. K., Buitelaar, J. K. & Hunnius, S. (2022) Implicit learning in three-year-olds with high and low likelihood of autism shows no evidence of precision weighting differences.  Developmental Science, 25(2), e13158. Link to paper Link to code

Ward, E. K. (2021) Predictive Processing Accounts of Autism and Early Development. PhD thesis. Link to thesis

van Rooijen, R., Ward, E.K., de Jonge, M., Kemner, C. & Junge, C. (2021) Two-year-olds at risk for autism can learn novel words from their parents. Journal of Child Language, 49(5), 1052–1063. Link to paper

Ward, E. K., Braukmann, R., Weiland, R., Bekkering, H., Buitelaar, J. K. & Hunnius, S. (2021) Action predictability is reflected in beta power attenuation and predictive eye movements in adolescents with and without autism. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107859. Link to paper Link to code

Ward, E. K., Braukmann, R., Buitelaar, J. K., & Hunnius, S. (2020). No evidence for neural markers of gaze direction adaptation in 2-year-olds with high or low likelihood of autism. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129(6), 612–623. Link to paper Link to code

Di Lorenzo, R.,  Munsters, N., Ward, E.K., de Jonge, M., Kemner, C. & van den Boomen, C. (2020). Is it fear? Similar brain responses to fearful and neutral faces in infants with a heightened likelihood for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51 (3), 961-972. Link to paper 

Ward, E. K., & Hunnius, S. (2020). Does variability in an implicit learning task help infants learn faster? A registered report.­ Developmental Science. Stage 1 Registered Report. Link to registration 

Jones, E.J.H., Mason, L., Begum Ali, J., van den Boomen, C., Braukmann, R., Cauvet, E., Demurie, E., Hessels, R.S., Ward, E. K., Hunnius, S., Bolte, S., Tomalski, P., Kemner, C. , Warreyn, P., Roeyers, H., Buitelaar, J. , Falck-Ytter, T., Charman. T., Johnson, M.H., & the EuroSibs Team. (2019). EuroSibs: Towards robust measurement of infant neurocognitive predictors of autism across Europe. Infant Behaviour and Development, 57, 101316. Link to paper 

Braukmann, R., Ward, E. K., Hessels, R. S., Bekkering, H., Buitelaar, J. K., & Hunnius, S. (2018). Action prediction in 10-month-old infants at high and low familial risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 49, 34-46. Link to paper