Publications

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In Prep

*Shafai, F., *Stow, M., *Schulz, S., *Abrahms, A., … & Stevenson R. A. (In Prep). Emotion processing in autism: categorization, subjective salience, and pupillometry across basics emotions.

*Lauzon, S., *Curcin, K., *Abrahms, A., & Stevenson R. A. (In Prep). Multisensory associative learning drives increases in efficiency of multisensory integration.

 

Under Review

*Brierly, N., *McDonnell, C. G., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). Factor structure of repetitive behaviours across autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

*Parks., K., *Schulz, S., *McDonnell, C. G., Anagnostou, E., Nicolson, R., Kelley, E., Georgiades, S., Liu, X., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). Sensory processing in autism and ADHD: A confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.

*McDonnell, C. G., Hayden, E. P., Penner, M., *Curcin, K., Anagnostou, E., Nicolson, R., Kelley, E., Georgiades, S., Liu, X., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). Child and family predictors of timeliness of autism identification over time: Implications for diagnosis among girls.

*McDonnell, C. G., Kotelnikova, Y., Stevenson, R. A., & Hayden, E. P. (Under Review). Factor structure of the Measure of Parental Style: Implications for assessment of abuse.

Segers, M., Bebko, J. M., Ncube, B. N., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). Psychophysiological indicators of multisensory processing in autism spectrum disorder and typical development: A pupillometry study. Developmental Psychology.

*Parks. K. P., Oram-Cardy, J., Woynaroski, T., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). Investigating the role of inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity in language and social functioning in ADHD using a dimensional approach. Nature: Scientific Reports.

Alkhudidi, A., Stevenson, R. A., & Rafat, Y. (Under Review). Geminate attrition in the speech of Arabic-English bilinguals living in Canada. Heritage Language Journal.

Alkhudidi, A., Walker, M., Hakooz, Y,  Stevenson, R. A., & Rafat, Y. (Under Review). The production of marked Arabic geminates by heritage speakers living in Canada. Eds. Babastoli, E., & Ball, M. J. An Anthology of Biligual Pholology. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Varona, D., Cordero, Ruiz-Pena, E., Dario Sierra, E., Stevenson, R. A. & Rafat, Y. (Under 2nd Review). The effect of salience on the imitation of Italian and Cuban Spanish geminates by Colombian Spanish speakers. Monolingual and Bilingual Speech.

Aldossari, A., Stevenson, R. A., & Rafat, Y. (Under Review). The role of orthographic depth in the acquisition of L2 phonology: Evidence from Japanese- and English-speaking learners of Arabic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Aziz, J., Swiderski, N., Machado, V., Valdivia, C., Rafat, Y., Stevenson, R. A., & Rao, R. (Under Review). Intonation patterns in Argentinean- and Venezuelan-Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish: Investigating parental and English influences. Spanish as a Heritage Language.

 

Under Review with Pre-print

70. Lyons, K.M., Stevenson, R.A., Owen, A.M., & Stojanoski, B. (Under Review). Examining the relationship between social cognition and neural synchrony during movies in children with and without autism. NeuroImage: Clinical. Preprint available at BioArXiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.06.981415

69. Stevenson, R. A., Sun, S., Ruppel, J., *Segers, M., Ncube, B., Barense, M. D., & Ferber, S. (Under Review). Visual working memory and sensory processing in autistic children. Scientific Reports. Preprint available at PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9vuer

68. *Muller, A., *Dalal, T. C., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). Schizotypal Personality Traits and Multisensory Integration: An Investigation Using the McGurk Effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Preprint available at PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qrmuk

67. *Dalal, T. C., *Muller, A., & Stevenson, R. A. (Under Review). The Relationship Between Multisensory Temporal Processing and Schizotypal Traits. Schizophrenia Research. Preprint available at PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/79hdz

 

2020 and In Press

66. *Scheerer, N. E., *Shafai, F., Stevenson, R. A., & Iarocci, G. (In Press). Affective prosody perception and the relation to social competence in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 

65. *Parks. K. P., *Griffith, L., Noonan, N., & Stevenson, R. A. (In Press). Statistical learning and social competency: The mediating role of language. Journal of Communication Disorders. 

64. *McDonnell, C. G., Delucia, E., Hayden, E. P., Anagnostou, E., Nicolson, R., Kelley, E., Georgiades, S., Liu, X., & Stevenson, R. A. (In Press). A comprehensive analysis of predictors of youth suicidality in autism spectrum disorder across multiple domains: Implications for prevention science. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

63. Wallace, M. T., Woynaroski, T. G., & Stevenson, R. A. (2020). Multisensory integration as a window into orderly and disrupted cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 71, 193-219.

62. *Schulz, S. & Stevenson, R. A. (2020). Differentiating between sensory sensitivity and sensory reactivity in relation to restricted interests and repetitive behaviours. Autism, 24(1), 121-134.

 

2019

61. Rafat, Y. & Stevenson, R. A. (2019). Auditory-orthographic integration at the onset of L2 speech acquisition: the case of naïve English-speaking learners of Spanish. Language and Speech 62(3), 427-451.

60. Feldman, J., Kuang, W., Tu, A., Conrad, J., Santapuram, P., Stevenson, R. A., Kwayke Dowell, L., Wallace, M., & Woynaroski, T. (2019). Differences in multisensory integration covary with differences in sensory responsiveness in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(1), 397-403.

59. *Schulz, S. & Stevenson, R. A. (2019). Sensory hypersensitivity predicts repetitive behaviors in autistic and typically-developing children. Autism, 23(4), 1028-1041.

58. Stevenson, R. A., *Philipp-Muller, *A., *Hazlett, N., *Wang, Z. E., *Luk, J., *Lee, J., *Black, K. R., Yeung, L., *Shafai, F., Segers, M., Ferber, S, & Barense, M. D. (2019). Conjunctive visual processing appears abnormal in autism.  Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2668.

 

2018

57. *Parks. K. P. & Stevenson, R. A. (2018). Autitory and visual statistical learning are not related to ADHD symptomatology: evidence from a research domain criteria (RDoC) approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:2502.

56. Lowe, M. X., Stevenson, R. A., Barense, M. D., Cant, J. S., & Ferber, S. (2018). Relating the perception of visual ensemble statistics to individual levels of autistic traits.Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(7), 1667-1674.

55. Butera, I. M., Stevenson, R. A., Mangus, B. D., Woynaroski, T. G., Gifford, R. H., & Wallace, M. T. (2018). Audiovisual temporal processing in postlingually deafened adults with cochlear implants. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 11345.

54. Stevenson, R. A., Segers. M., Ncube, B.L., *Black, K. R., Bebko, J. M., Ferber, S., Barense, M. D. (2018).The cascading influence of low-level multisensory processing on speech perception in Autism.Autism, 22(5), 609-624.

53. Noel, J-P., Stevenson, R. A., Wallace, M. T. (2018). Atypical audiovisual temporal function in autism and schizophrenia: similar phenotype, different cause. European Journal of Neuroscience, 47(10), 1230-1241.

52. Stevenson, R. A., Sun, S. Z., *Hazlett, N., Cant, J. S., Barense, M. D., & Ferber, S. (2018). Seeing the forest and the trees: Default local processing in individuals with high autistic traits does not come at the expense of global attention. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48(4), 1382–1396.

51. Stevenson, R. A., Baum, S. H., Krueger Fister, J., Newhouse, P. A., & Wallace, M. T. (2018). Links between temporal acuity and multisensory integration across lifespan. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(1), 106-116.

 

2017

50. Stevenson, R. A., *Toulmin, J. K., *Youm, A., *Besney, R., Barense, M. D., & Ferber, S. (2017). Increases in the autistic trait of attention to detail are associated with decreased multisensory temporal adaptation. Nature: Scientific Reports, 7(1), 14,354.

49. Baum, S. H. & Stevenson, R. A. (2017). Shifts in Auditory and Visual Processing in Healthy Aging. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 4(3), 198-208.

48. Stevenson, R. A., Sheffield, S. W., Butera, I. M., Gifford, R. H., Wallace, M. T. (2017). Multisensory integration in cochlear implant recipients. Ear and Hearing, 38(5), 521-538.

47. Stevenson, R. A., Baum, S. H., Segers, M., *Rivera, M., Ferber, S., Barense, M. D., & Wallace, M. T. (2017). Multisensory speech perception in autism spectrum disorder: From phoneme to whole‐word perception. Autism Research, 10(7), 1280-1290.

46. *Black, K. R., Stevenson, R. A., M., Segers, M., Ncube, B.L., Sun, S. Z., *Philipp-Muller, A., Bebko, J. M., Ferber, S., Barense, M. D. (2017). Linking anxiety and insistence on sameness in autistic children: The role of hypersensitivity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(8), 2459-2470.

45. Noel, JP., DeNiear, M., Stevenson, R. A., Alais, D., & Wallace, M. T. (2017) Atypical rapid audio‐visual temporal recalibration in autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research, 10(1), 121-129.

44. Jahn, K. N., Stevenson, R. A., Wallace, M.T. (2017). Visual Temporal Acuity is Predictive of Auditory Speech Perception Abilities in Cochlear Implant Users. Ear and Hearing, 38(2), 236-243.

43. Stevenson, R. A., Park, S., Cochran, C., McIntosh, L. G., Noel, J-P., Barense, M.D., Ferber, S., & Wallace, M. T. (2017). The associations between multisensory temporal processing and symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 179, 97-103.

42. Rafat, Y., Mohaghegh, M., & Stevenson, R. A. (2017). Geminate attrition across three generations in Farsi-English bilinguals living in Canada: An acoustic Study. Ilha Do Desterro, 70(3), 151-168.

41. Varona, D., Ruiz-Peña, E, Sierra, E. D., Stevenson, R. A., & Rafat, Y. (2017). Second dialect and second language imitation of geminates by Colombian Spanish speakers. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2017, 99-105.

 

2016

40. Stevenson, R. A., Segers, M., Ferber, S., Barense, M. D., Camarata, S., & Wallace, M. T. (2016). Keeping time in the brain: Autism spectrum disorder and audiovisual temporal processing. Autism Research, 9(7), 720-738.

39. Baum, S. H., Stevenson, R. A. (2016). Commentary: visual fixation in human newborns correlates with extensive white matter network and predicts long-term neurocognitive development. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 215.

38. Altieri, N., Wenger, M. J., Wallace, M. T., & Stevenson, R. A. (2016). Does Number of Perceptions or Cross-Modal Auditory Cueing Influence Audiovisual Processing Speed? The American Journal of Psychology, 129(1), 11-21.

37. Krueger-Fister, J., Stevenson, R. A., Nidiffer, A. R., Barnett, Z. P., & Wallace, M.T. (2016). Stimulus intensity modulates multisensory temporal processing. Neuropsychologia, 88, 92-100.

36. Nidiffer, A. R., Stevenson, R. A., Krueger-Fister, J., Barnett, Z. P., & Wallace, M.T. (2016). Interactions between space and effectiveness in human multisensory performance. Neuropsychologia, 88, 83-91.

35. Lowe, M. X., Stevenson, R. A., Wilson, K. E., Ouslis, N. E., Barense, M. D., Cant, J. S., Ferber, S. (2016). Sensory processing patterns predict the integration of information held in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(2), 294-301.

 

2015

34. Stevenson, R. A., Nelms, C., Baum, S., Zurkowsky, L., Barense, M.D., Newhouse, P., & Wallace, M.T. (2015). Deficits in audiovisual speech perception in normal aging emerge at the level of whole-word recognition. Neurobiology of Aging, 36(1), 283-291.

33. Baum, S. H., Stevenson, R. A., & Wallace, M. T. (2015). Behavioral, perceptual, and neural alterations in sensory and multisensory function in autism spectrum disorder. Progress in Neurobiology, 134, 140-160.

32. Baum, S., Stevenson, R. A., & Wallace, M. T. (2015). Testing sensory and multisensory function in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 98, e52677.

31. Altieri, N. A., Stevenson, R. A., Wallace, M. T., & Wenger, M. J. (2015). Learning to associate auditory and visual stimuli: Behavioral and neural mechanisms. Brain Topography, 28(3), 479-493.

30. James, T. W., Potter, R. F., Lee, S., Kim, S., Stevenson, R. A., & Lang, A. (2015).How Realistic Should Avatars Be? Journal of Media Psychology, 27, 109-117.

 

2014

29. Stevenson, R. A., Siemann, J. K., Woynaroski, T. G., *Schneider, B. C., *Eberly, H. E., Camarata, S. M., & Wallace, M. T. (2014). Multisensory temporal integration in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(3), 691-697.

28. Stevenson, R. A., Segers, M., Ferber, S., Barense, M.D., & Wallace, M.T. (2014). The impact of multisensory integration deficits on speech perception in children with autism spectrum disorders. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(379), 1-4.

27. Stevenson, R. A., Siemann, J. K, *Schneider, B. C., *Eberly, H. E., Woynaroski, T. G., Camarata, S. M., & Wallace, M. T. (2014). Arrested development of audiovisual speech perception in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 44(6), 1470-1477.

26. Stevenson, R. A., Siemann, J. K, *Schneider, B. C., *Eberly, H. E., Woynaroski, T. G., Camarata, S. M., & Wallace, M. T. (2014). Evidence for diminished multisensory integration in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 44(12), 3161-3167.

25. Wallace, M. T. & Stevenson, R. A. (2014). The construct of the multisensory temporal binding window and its dysregulation in developmental disabilities. Neuropsychologia, 64, 105-123.

24. Stevenson, R. A., Sarko, D. K., Nidiffer, A. R., Ghose, D., Krueger Fister, J., Altieri, N. A., Siemann, J. K., James, T. W., & Wallace, M. T. (2014). Identifying and quantifying multisensory integration: A tutorial review. Brain Topography, 27(6), 707-730.

23. Stevenson, R. A., Wallace, M. T., & Altieri, N. A. (2014). The interaction between stimulus factors and cognitive factors during multisensory integration of audiovisual speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(352), 1-3.

22. Schlesinger, J., Stevenson, R. A., & Wallace, M. T. (2014). Improving pulse oximetry pitch perception with multisensory perceptual training. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 118(6), 1249-1253.

 

2013

21. Woynaroski, T. G., Kwayke, L., Foss-Feig, J. H., Stevenson, R. A., Stone, W. L., & Wallace, M. T. (2013). Multisensory speech perception in high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(12), 2897-2902.

20. Stevenson, R. A., Wilson, M. M., Powers, A. R., & Wallace, M. T. (2013). The effects of visual training on multisensory temporal processing. Experimental Brain Research, 255(4): 479-489.

19. Stevenson, R. A. & Wallace, M.T. (2013). Multisensory temporal integration as a function of task and stimulus type. Experimental Brain Research, 227(2): 249-261.

18. Stevenson, R. A., Schlesinger, J., & Wallace, M.T. (2013). Effects of attention and operating room noise on perception of pulse oximeter pitch changes: a laboratory study. Anesthesiology, 118(2): 376-381.

 

2012

17. Stevenson, R. A. (2012). Using functional connectivity analysis to investigate the bases of autism spectrum disorders and other clinical populations. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(50): 17933-17934.

16. Stevenson, R. A., *Zemtsov, R. K., & Wallace, M.T. (2012). Individual differences in the multisensory temporal binding window predict susceptibility to audiovisual illusions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(6): 1517-1529.

15. Stevenson, R. A., Krueger Fister, J., Barnett, Z. P., Nidiffer, A. R., & Wallace, M.T. (2012). Interactions between the spatial and temporal stimulus factors that influence multisensory integration in human performance. Experimental Brain Research, 219(1): 121-137.

14. Stevenson, R. A., Bushmakin, M., Kim, S., Puce, A., & James, T. W. (2012). Inverse effectiveness and multisensory interactions in visual event-related potentials with audiovisual speech. Brain Topography, 25 (3), 308-326.

13. Kim, S., Stevenson, R. A., & James, T. W. (2012). Visuo-haptic neuronal convergence demonstrated with an inversely effective pattern of BOLD activation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24 (4), 830-842.

12. James, T. W. & Stevenson, R. A., Kim, S. (2012). Inverse effectiveness in multisensory processing. In The New Handbook of Multisensory Processes. Ed. Stein, B. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Chapter 12, 207-222.

11. James, T. W. & Stevenson, R. A. (2012).The use of fMRI to assess multisensory integration. In Frontiers in the Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes. Eds. Wallace, M. & Murray, M. Taylor & Francis Group, London. Chapter 8, 131-146.

 

2011

10. Stevenson, R. A., *VanDerKlok, R. M., Pisoni, D. B., & James, T. W. (2011). Discrete neural substrates underlie complementary audiovisual speech integration processes. Neuroimage, 55: 1339-1345.

9. Stevenson, R. A., Stevenson, L. D., Rupp, H. A., Janssen, E., Kim, S., & James, T. W. (2011). Incorporating emotions specific to the sexual response into theories of emotion using the Indiana Sexual and Affective Word Set. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(1): 59-78.

8. James, T. W., Stevenson, R. A., Kim, S., *VanDerKlok, R. M., & James, K. H. (2011). Shape from sounds: evidence for a shape operator in the lateral occipital cortex. Neuropsychologia, 49(7): 1807-1815.

7. James, T. W., *VanDerKlok, R. M., Stevenson, R. A., & James, K. H. (2011). Multisensory perception of action in posterior temporal and parietal cortices. Neuropsychologia, 49(1): 108-114.

 

2010 and Prior

6. Stevenson, R. A., Altieri, N. A., Kim, S., James, T. W. (2010). Neural processing of asynchronous audiovisual speech perception. Neuroimage, 49: 3308-3318.

5. Stevenson, R. A., Kim, S., & James, T. W. (2009). An additive-factors design to disambiguate neuronal and areal convergence: Measuring multisensory interactions between audio, visual, and haptic sensory streams using fMRI. Experimental Brain Research, 198:183-194.

4. Stevenson, R. A. & James, T. W. (2009). Audiovisual integration in the human superior temporal sulcus: Inverse effectiveness and the neural processing of speech and object recognition. Neuroimage, 44:1210-1223.

3. Stevenson, R. A. & James, T. W. (2008). Affective auditory stimuli: Characterization of the International Affective Digitized Sounds (IADS) by discrete emotional categories. Behavior Research Methods, 40(1):315-321.

2. Stevenson, R. A., *Geoghegan, M. L., & James, T. W. (2007). Superadditive BOLD activation in superior temporal sulcus with threshold non-speech objects. Experimental Brain Research, 179:85-95.

1. Stevenson, R. A., Mikels, J. A., & James, T. W. (2007). Characterization of Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) by discrete emotional categories. Behavior Research Methods, 39(4):1020-1024.