Chris Ashwin

Publications

2009

Pomarol-Clotet, E., Hynes, F., Ashwin, C., Bullmore, E.T., McKenna, P.J.,
& Laws, K.R. (2009). Facial emotion processing in schizophrenia: a non-specific
neuropsychological deficit? Psychological Medicine, Sept. 24 [Epub ahead of print]

Standage, H., Ashwin, C., & Fox, E. (2009). Is manipulation of mood a critical
component of cognitive bias modification procedures? Behaviouur Research and
Therapy, Sept. 6 [Epub ahead of print]

Standage, H., Ashwin, C., & Fox, E. (2009). Comparing visual and auditory
presentation for the modification of interpretation bias. Journal of Behavior Therapy
and Experimental Psychiatry, 40(4), 558-570.

Baron-Cohen, S., Ashwin, E., Ashwin, C., Tavassoli, T., Chakrabarti, B. (2009).
Talent in autism: hyper-systemising, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hypersensitivity.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 364(1522),
1377-1383.

Fox, E., Ridgewell, A., & Ashwin, C. (2009). Looking on the bright side: Biased attention
and the human serotonin transporter gene. Proceedings of the Royal Society:
Biological Sciences, 276(1663), 1747-1751.

Ashwin, C., Ricciardelli, P., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2009). The positive and negative
of gaze perception in autism. Social Neuroscience, 4(2), 153-164.

Ashwin, E., Ashwin, C., Rhydderch, D., Howells, J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2009)
Eagle-eye visual acuity in autism: A mechanism underlying enhanced
perception. Biological Psychiatry, 65(1), 17-21.

2007

Ashwin, C., Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., O’Riordan, M., & Bullmore, E. T.
(2007). Differential activation of the amygdala and the ‘social brain’ during fearful
face-processing in adults with and without autism. Neuropsychologia, 45(1), 2-14.

Baron-Cohen, S., Bor, D., Billington, J., Asher, J., Wheelwright, S., & Ashwin, C.
(2007). Savant memory in a man with colour-number synaesthesia and Asperger
Syndrome. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14(9-10), 114-129.

Colle, L., Mate, D., Del Giudice, M., Ashwin, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2007).
Children’s understanding of intentional vs. unintentional action. Journal of Cognitive
Science, 8(1), 1-10.

2006

Ashwin, C., Chapman, E., Colle, L., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006). Impaired
recognition of negative basic emotions in autism: A test of the amygdala theory.
Social Neuroscience, 1(3-4), 349-363.

Ashwin, C. Wheelwright, S. & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006). Attention bias to faces in
Asperger Syndrome: A pictorial emotion Stroop study. Psychological Medicine,
36(6), 835-843.

Ashwin, C., Wheelwright, S. J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006). Finding a face in the crowd:
Testing the anger superiority effect in autism. Brain and Cognition, 61(1), 78-95.

Gomot, M, Bernard, F, Davis, M, H, Belmonte, M, K, Ashwin, C, Bullmore, E,
T, & Baron-Cohen, S, (2006). Change detection in children with autism: an
auditory event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage, 29(2), 475-484.

2005

Ashwin, C. Wheelwright, S. & Baron-Cohen, S. (2005). Laterality biases to chimeric
faces in Asperger Syndrome: What's 'right' about face processing? Journal of Autism
and Developmental Disorders, 35(2), 183-196.

Welchew, D.E., Ashwin, C., Berkouk, K., Salvador, R., Suckling, J., Baron-Cohen, S.,
Bullmore, E. (2005). Functional disconnectivity of the medial temporal lobe in
Asperger's Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry, 57(9), 991-998.

2000

Baron-Cohen, S., Ring, H., Bullmore, E. T., Wheelwright, S., Ashwin, C.,
Williams, S. C. (2000). The amygdala theory of autism. Neuroscience and
Biobehavioural Reviews, 24, 355-364.

Reynolds, D. V., & Ashwin, C. (2000). A large-scale neuroanatomical model of
attention implemented as a computer simulation. Neurocomputing, 32-33, 967-971.

Book chapters and book reviews

Goldenfeld, N, Baron-Cohen, S, Wheelwright, S, Ashwin, C, & Chakrabarti, B.
(2007). Empathizing and systemizing in males and females, and autism: A test of the
neural competition theory. In Farrow, T, and Woodruff, P, (Eds.) Empathy in Mental
Illness (pp. 628-639). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S. J., Lawson, J., Griffin, R., Ashwin, C., Billington, J.,
& Chakrabarti, B. (2005). Empathizing and Systemizing in Autism Spectrum
Conditions. In Volkmar, F. R., Paul, R., Klin, A., and Cohen, D. J. (Eds.) Handbook of
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 3rd Edition (pp. 322-334). Hoboken,
NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Ashwin, C. (2004). Linking the brain and behaviour in autism spectrum disorders.
(Review of Frith & Hill (Eds) Autism: Mind and Brain). Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 2004.) Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18(7), 933-935.

Baron-Cohen, S, Ring, H, Bullmore, E, Wheelwright, S, Ashwin, C, & Williams, S,
(2000) The amygdala theory of autism. Advances in Research on Autism and
Developmental Disorders (2002), Seiwa Shoten, Tokyo. Reprinted from
Neuroscience and Behavioural Reviews, (2000), 24, 355-364.

Conference papers

Ashwin, C. (2008, April). Atypical attention in autism: Evidence from change blindness
paradigms. Talk presented at the annual conference of the British Psychological
Society, Dublin, Ireland.

Ashwin, C., Wicker, B., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006, June). Here’s looking at you: An eye-
tracking study of gaze in autism spectrum conditions. Poster paper presented at the 5th
International Meeting For Autism Research, Montreal, Canada.

Ashwin, C., Ricciardelli, P., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006, March). The positive and
negative of gaze in autism. Poster paper presented at the 2nd International Conference
on The Social Brain, Goteborg, Sweden.

Ashwin, C. (2004, June). Recent findings of face-processing in autism spectrum
conditions and their implications. Talk presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the
Society for Psychotherapy Research, Rome, Italy.

Ashwin, C. (2004, May). Do people with autism find a face in the crowd? Talk presented
at the 3rd International Meeting For Autism Research, Sacramento, Ca.

Ashwin, C., Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Fletcher, P. C. & Bullmore, E. T. (2003,
March). Differences in social brain activation in people with and without autism; an
fMRI study. Poster paper presented at the 1st International Conference on The Social
Brain, Goteborg, Sweden.

Ashwin, C., Baron-Cohen, S., Bullmore, E. T. (2002, November). fMRI study of
differences in neural activation during eye gaze discrimination in autism. Poster paper
presented at the 2nd International Meeting For Autism Research, Orlando, FL.

Ashwin, C., Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., & Bullmore, E. T. (2001, November).
fMRI study of social perception in the normal and autistic brain. Poster paper
presented at the 1st International Meeting For Autism Research, San Diego, Ca.

Ashwin, C., & Reynolds, D. V. (1998, June). A Large-scale simulation of brain
changes in autism using object-oriented and fuzzy logic strategies. Poster
paper presented at the Second International Workshop on Neural Modeling
of Brain and Cognitive Disorders, College Park, MD.

Reynolds, D. V., & Ashwin, C. (1999, July). A Large-scale simulation of brain
changes in autism using object-oriented and fuzzy logic strategies. Poster paper
presented at the annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

Reynolds, D. V., & Ashwin, C. (1997, May). A Computer method based on fuzzy
logic for simulating large-scale brain systems. Poster paper presented at the
annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington D. C.