Phil McAleer

TL;DR: A comprehensive and critical review of the phenomenological, empirical, neuroscientific and theoretical literature pertaining to visual processing in ASD is presented, along with a brief justification of a new theory which may help to explain some of the data and link it with other current hypotheses about the genetic and neural aetiologies of this enigmatic condition.

TL;DR: It is shown that personality judgements of brief utterances from unfamiliar speakers are consistent across listeners, and empirical bases for predicting personality impressions from acoustical analyses of short utterances and for generating desired personality impressions in artificial voices are provided.

TL;DR: Despite comparable behavioural performance both inside and outside the scanner, the group with ASDs shows a different pattern of BOLD activation from the TD group in response to the same stimulus levels, and it is proposed that these differences may occur due to early dysfunctional connectivity in the brains of people with AsDs, which to some extent is compensated for by rewiring in high functioning adults.

TL;DR: Brain functions in action-sound representation areas are modulated by multimodal action expertise, and drummers' brain activation was reduced in motor and action representation brain regions when sound matched the observed movements, and was similar to that of novices when sound was mismatched.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that functional brain network connectivity measured before exposure to a perceptual decision task covaries with individual objective (type-I performance) and subjective ( type-II performance) accuracy.