Terje Falck-Ytter
Professor at Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 25 22
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 458 14 75
- E-mail:
- Terje.Falck-Ytter@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
More information is available to staff who log in.
Short presentation
After finishing my clinical training in psychology, I did my PhD in developmental psychology (awarded in 2010). Currently, my main clinical research project aims to characterize and understand the development of infants who are later diagnosed with neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. autism). In addition, I lead twin studies of children and young infants, aiming to establish the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to various developmentally informative measures early in life.
Publications
Selection of publications
- The sensory-first account of autism (2023)
- Social attention (2023)
- Infants' looking preferences for social versus non-social objects reflect genetic variation (2023)
- Joint attention in infancy and the emergence of autism (2019)
- Enhanced pupillary light reflex in infancy is associated with autism diagnosis in toddlerhood (2018)
- Genetic Influence on Eye Movements to Complex Scenes at Short Timescales (2017)
- Infants predict other people's action goals. (2006)
Recent publications
- Genetic and environmental contributions to gaze lateralization across social and non-social stimuli in human infants (2024)
- Sustained looking at faces at 5 months of age is associated with socio-communicative skills in the second year of life (2024)
- Manipulation of phasic arousal by auditory cues is associated with subsequent changes in visual orienting to faces in infancy (2023)
- The latent structure of emerging cognitive abilities (2023)
- The sensory-first account of autism (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Genetic and environmental contributions to gaze lateralization across social and non-social stimuli in human infants (2024)
- Sustained looking at faces at 5 months of age is associated with socio-communicative skills in the second year of life (2024)
- Manipulation of phasic arousal by auditory cues is associated with subsequent changes in visual orienting to faces in infancy (2023)
- The latent structure of emerging cognitive abilities (2023)
- The sensory-first account of autism (2023)
- Social attention (2023)
- Global motion processing in infants’ visual cortex and the emergence of autism (2023)
- Visual Global Processing and Subsequent Verbal and Non-Verbal Development (2023)
- Autistic children quickly orient away from both eyes and mouths during face observation (2023)
- Using the Infant Sibling-Design to Explore Associations Between Autism and ADHD Traits in Probands and Temperament in the Younger Siblings (2023)
- Infants' looking preferences for social versus non-social objects reflect genetic variation (2023)
- Infant responses to direct gaze and associations to autism (2023)
- Pre-pragmatic language use in toddlerhood (2023)
- Remote, tablet-based assessment of gaze following (2023)
- A field test of computer-vision-based gaze estimation in psychology (2023)
- How 18-month-olds with Later Autism Look at Other Children Interacting (2023)
- Infants’ sense of approximate numerosity (2023)
- Preferential looking to eyes versus mouth in early infancy (2023)
- Stable eye versus mouth preference in a live speech-processing task (2023)
- Early-life differences in the gut microbiota composition and functionality of infants at elevated likelihood of developing autism spectrum disorder (2023)
- How Does Temperament in Toddlers at Elevated Likelihood for Autism Relate to Symptoms of Autism and ADHD at Three Years of Age? (2022)
- Pupil size and pupillary light reflex in early infancy (2022)
- Visual search (2022)
- Larger pupil dilation to nonsocial sounds in infants with subsequent autism diagnosis (2022)
- What are you looking at? (2022)
- Updating Expectations about Unexpected Object Motion in Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2021)
- T1-Weighted/T2-Weighted Ratio Mapping at 5 Months Captures Individual Differences in Behavioral Development and Differentiates Infants at Familial Risk for Autism from Controls (2021)
- The Babytwins Study Sweden (BATSS) (2021)
- Development of the pupillary light reflex from 9 to 24 months (2021)
- Determining Zygosity in Infant Twins – Revisiting the Questionnaire Approach (2021)
- Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD (2021)
- Atypical Topographical Organization of Global Form and Motion Processing in 5-Month-Old Infants at Risk for Autism (2021)
- Parent-child interaction during the first year of life in infants at elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder (2021)
- Visual disengagement in young infants in relation to age, sex, SES, developmental level and adaptive functioning (2021)
- Eye tracking in human interaction (2021)
- Parents' experiences from participating in an infant sibling study of autism spectrum disorder (2020)
- Motor atypicalities in infancy are associated with general developmental level at 2 years, but not autistic symptoms (2020)
- Difficulties maintaining prolonged fixation and attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms share genetic influences in childhood (2020)
- Atypical Development of Attentional Control Associates with Later Adaptive Functioning, Autism and ADHD Traits (2020)
- Volitional eye movement control and ADHD traits (2020)
- Visual Disengagement (2020)
- The Developmental Origins of Gaze-Following in Human Infants (2019)
- Eurosibs (2019)
- How Infants Arousal Influences their Visual Search (2019)
- Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism (2019)
- Visual Search Performance Does Not Relate to Autistic Traits in the General Population (2019)
- Preschool Staff Spot Social Communication Difficulties, But Not Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Young Autistic Children (2019)
- Spotting Signs of Autism in 3-Year-Olds (2019)
- Joint attention in infancy and the emergence of autism (2019)
- Challenges and Inequalities of Opportunities in European Psychiatry Research The Example of Psychodiagnostic Tool Availability in Research on Early Autism Identification (2018)
- Watch and listen – A cross-cultural study of audio-visual-matching behavior in 4.5-month-old infants in German and Swedish talking faces (2018)
- Reduced Orienting to Audiovisual Synchrony in Infancy Predicts Autism Diagnosis at 3 Years of Age (2018)
- Author Correction (2018)
- Local and Global Visual Processing in 3-year olds With and Without Autism (2018)
- Enhanced pupillary light reflex in infancy is associated with autism diagnosis in toddlerhood (2018)
- Reduced alternating gaze during social interaction in infancy is associated with elevated symptoms of autism in toddlerhood (2018)
- Human eyes with dilated pupils induce pupillary contagion in infants (2017)
- Genetic Influence on Eye Movements to Complex Scenes at Short Timescales (2017)
- Visual orienting in children with autism (2017)
- Autistic traits and symptoms of social anxiety are differentially related to attention to others' eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder (2017)
- Reduced visual disengagement but intact phasic alerting in young children with autism (2017)
- Responding to Other People's Direct Gaze (2017)
- Gaze Following in Children with Autism (2017)
- How can clinicians detect and treat autism early? Methodological trends of technology use in research (2016)
- Reduced Prospective Motor Control in 10-month-olds at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder (2016)
- The Relation between Reading Skills and Eye Movement Patterns in Adolescent Readers (2016)
- The TimeStudio Project (2016)
- Altered gaze following during live interaction in infants at risk for autism (2016)
- Gaze performance during face-to-face communication (2015)
- Eye Contact Modulates Cognitive Processing Differently in Children With Autism (2015)
- Brief Report (2015)
- Eye Movements During Action Observation (2015)
- Hypersensitive pupillary light reflex in infants at risk for autism (2015)
- Face-Viewing Patterns in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014)
- Human Infants Detect Other People's Interactions Based on Complex Patterns of Kinematic Information. (2014)
- Practical Guidelines for Studying Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Psychophysiological Experiments (2014)
- Eye Tracking in Basic Research and Clinical Practice (2013)
- Infants at risk for autism (2013)
- The motor cortex is causally related to predictive eye movements during action observation (2013)
- Eye tracking in early autism research (2013)
- Lack of Visual Orienting to Biological Motion and Audiovisual Synchrony in 3-Year-Olds with Autism (2013)
- Visualization and Analysis of Eye Movement Data from Children with Typical and Atypical Development (2013)
- Humans anticipate the goal of other people’s point-light actions (2012)
- Predicting other people's action goals with low-level motor information (2012)
- Gaze performance in children with autism spectrum disorder when observing communicative actions (2012)
- Human infants orient to biological motion rather than audiovisual synchrony (2011)
- How special is social looking in ASD (2011)
- Young children with autism spectrum disorder use predictive eye movements in action observation (2010)
- Face scanning distinguishes social from communication impairments in autism (2010)
- Action Type and Goal Type Modulate Goal-Directed Gaze Shifts in 14-Month-Old Infants (2009)
- Young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder look differently at positive versus negative emotional faces (2008)
- Face inversion effects in autism (2008)
- Infants predict other people's action goals. (2006)
- The relation between reading skills and eye movement patterns in typically developing German-speaking (Austrian) adolescents: evidence from word reading, text reading and pseudoword reading
- Infants’ Orienting to Faces, Eyes, and Single Colors is Influenced by Phasic Arousal
Chapters
Conferences
- Eye Tracking in Human Interaction (2020)
- Pupillary Correlates of Emotion and Cognition (2019)
- Earlier Identification of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (2017)
- The earliest signs of ADHD – how do we get there? (2016)
- The Swedish study of infants at risk for autism (EASE) (2016)
- Tidiga tecken på autism (2016)
- Hypersensitive Pupillary Light Reflex in Infants at Risk for Autism (2015)
- Mirror Neurons in Parent Infant Interaction (2015)
- Gaze Following in Infants at Risk for Autism: the Role of Eye Information and Head Turns (2015)
- ESSEA COST Action Looking Forward (2014)
- Developmental pathways to autism in infants at risk (2014)
- Limited Influence by Others’ Gaze Direction on Initial Object Processing in Three-year-olds with Autism (2014)
- Processing of biological motion and audiovisual synchrony in children with typical development and in children with Autism (2012)
- Action prediction in children with autism spectrum disorder (2012)
- Tidiga tecken på autism (2012)
Other
