Kathryn Suzanne Scherf

Professor of Psychology

Kathryn Suzanne Scherf

Research Summary

Development of face and object representation in typically developing children and children with developmental disorders.

Huck Affiliations

Most Recent Publications

Investigating the stability of individual differences in face recognition behavior

Myles N. Arrington, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2025, Scientific Reports

Social visual attention as a treatment outcome: evaluating the social games for autistic adolescents (SAGA) intervention

K. Suzanne Scherf, Jason W. Griffin, Charles F. Geier, Joshua Morrison Smyth, 2024, Scientific Reports

How is race perceived during adolescence? A meta-analysis of the own-race bias.

Junqiang Dai, Jason W. Griffin, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2024, Developmental Psychology on p. 649-664

The Privileged Status of Peer Faces: Subordinate-level Neural Representations of Faces in Emerging Adults

Junqiang Dai, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2023, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 715-735

Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development

Nancy L. Zucker, Gregory P. Strauss, Joshua Morrison Smyth, K. Suzanne Scherf, Melissa A. Brotman, Rhonda C. Boyd, Jimmy Choi, Maria Davila, Olusola A. Ajilore, Faith Gunning, Julie B. Schweitzer, 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science

Evaluating the ability of serious game intervention to alter visual processing strategies in autism during eye gaze processing using computational modeling

Jason Griffin, Janet Hsiao, K. Scherf, 2022, Journal of Vision on p. 3956

Does social network quality influence facial recognition abilities in emerging adults?

Myles Arrington, K. Scherf, 2022, Journal of Vision on p. 4323

Mapping the Neural Mechanisms of the Own Species Bias in the Ventrovisual Pathway

Yiming Qian, K. Scherf, 2022, Journal of Vision on p. 4406

College as a Developmental Context for Emerging Adulthood in Autism: A Systematic Review of What We Know and Where We Go from Here

Chaia Flegenheimer, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2022, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders on p. 2075-2097

Introducing the female Cambridge face memory test – long form (F-CFMT+)

Myles Arrington, Daniel Elbich, Junqiang Dai, Bradley Duchaine, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2022, Behavior Research Methods

Most-Cited Papers

Designing Serious Game Interventions for Individuals with Autism

Elisabeth M. Whyte, Joshua M. Smyth, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2015, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders on p. 3820-3831

A Two-Hit Model of Autism: Adolescence as the Second Hit

Giorgia Picci, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2015, Clinical Psychological Science on p. 349-371

A theoretical rut: revisiting and critically evaluating the generalized under/over-connectivity hypothesis of autism

Giorgia Picci, Stephen J. Gotts, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2016, Developmental Science on p. 524-549

A quantitative meta-analysis of face recognition deficits in autism: 40 years of research.

Jason W. Griffin, Russell Bauer, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2021, Psychological Bulletin on p. 268-292

The visual white matter: The application of diffusion MRI and fiber tractography to vision science

Ariel Rokem, Hiromasa Takemura, Andrew S. Bock, K. Suzanne Scherf, Marlene Behrmann, Brian A. Wandell, Ione Fine, Holly Bridge, Franco Pestilli, 2017, Journal of Vision on p. 4

From Caregivers to Peers: Puberty Shapes Human Face Perception

Giorgia Picci, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2016, Psychological Science on p. 1461-1473

Animal, but not human, faces engage the distributed face network in adolescents with autism

Elisabeth M. Whyte, Marlene Behrmann, Nancy J. Minshew, Natalie V. Garcia, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2016, Developmental Science on p. 306-317

Individual differences in symptom severity and behavior predict neural activation during face processing in adolescents with autism

K. Suzanne Scherf, Daniel Elbich, Nancy Minshew, Marlene Behrmann, 2015, NeuroImage: Clinical on p. 53-67

Puberty and functional brain development in humans: Convergence in findings?

Junqiang Dai, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2019, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Beyond the FFA: Brain-behavior correspondences in face recognition abilities

Daniel B. Elbich, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2017, NeuroImage on p. 409-422