Kathryn Suzanne Scherf

Associate Professor of Psychology

Kathryn Suzanne Scherf

Research Summary

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

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Publication Tags

Autism Autistic Disorder Aptitude Facial Recognition Autism Spectrum Disorder Language Cues Adolescent Syntax Ocular Fixation Theory Of Mind Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Puberty White Matter Databases Activation Adolescence Child Social Skills Deficit Face Memory Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systematic Reviews Learning

Most Recent Publications

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

Junqiang Dia, K. Scherf, 2023, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 42

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

Cracking the Code of Live Human Social Interactions in Autism: A Review of the Eye- Tracking Literature

Sarah Laskowitz, Griffin, J. Griffin, Charles Geier, K. Scherf, 2022, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research on p. 22

Changes in cortical coherence supporting complex visual and social processing in adolescence

Yulia Lerner, K. Suzanne Scherf, Mikhail Katkov, Uri Hasson, Marlene Behrmann, 2021, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on p. 2215-2230

College as a context for emerging adulthood and autism: What we know and what still needs to be done

Chaia Flegenheimer, K. Scherf, 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities

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

Measuring sensitivity to eye gaze cues in naturalistic scenes: Presenting the eye gaze FoCuS database

Gordon Bill, Elisabeth Whyte, Jason W. Griffin, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2020, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research on p. 1-9

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

Jason Griffin, K. Scherf, 2020, Psychological Bulletin

Does decreased visual attention to faces underlie difficulties interpreting eye gaze cues in autism?

Jason W. Griffin, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2020, Molecular Autism

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

The amygdala: An agent of change in adolescent neural networks

K. Suzanne Scherf, Joshua M. Smyth, Mauricio R. Delgado, 2013, Hormones and Behavior on p. 298–313

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

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

Two faces, two languages: An fMRI study of bilingual picture naming

Yunqing Li, Jing Yang, K. Suzanne Scherf, Ping Li, 2013, Brain and Language on p. 452-462

Idiom, syntax, and advanced theory of mind abilities in children with autism spectrum disorders

Elisabeth M. Whyte, Keith E. Nelson, K. Suzanne Scherf, 2014, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders on p. 120-130

From Caregivers to Peers: Puberty Shapes Human Face Perception

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

Emerging structure-function relations in the developing face processing system

K. Suzanne Scherf, Cibu Thomas, Jaime Doyle, Marlene Behrmann, 2014, Cerebral Cortex on p. 2964-2980

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