James C McPartland PhD

Assistant Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychology; Associate Director, Developmental Electrophysiology Lab; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Yale Child Study Center; Director, Yale Developmental Disabilities Clinic

Research Interests

developmental neuroscience; social perception

Current Projects


    Selected Publications

    • McPartland, J., Reichow, B. & Volkmar, F. (in press). Sensitivity and specificity of proposed DSM-V diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
    • McPartland, J., Coffman, M. & Pelphrey, K. (2011). Recent advances in understanding the neural bases of autism spectrum disorder. Current Opinions in Pediatrics, 23(6), 628-632.
    • McPartland, J., Wu, J., Bailey, C., Mayes, L., Schultz, R. & Klin, A. (2011). Atypical neural specialization for social percepts in autism spectrum disorder. Social Neuroscience, 6(5-6), 436-451.
    • McPartland, J., Crowley, M., Perszyk, D., Naples, A., Mukerji, C., Wu, J., Molfese, P., Bolling, Z., Pelphrey, K., Klin, A. & Mayes, L. (2011). Temporal dynamics reveal atypical brain response to social exclusion in autism. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(3), 271-279.
    • McPartland, J., Webb, S., Keehn, B. & Dawson, G. (2010). Patterns of visual attention to faces and objects in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; epub ahead of print.
    • Cheung, C., Mayes, L., Rutherford, H. & McPartland, J. (2010). Social personality traits are reflected in neural responses to faces. Social Neuroscience, 5, 351-359.
    • McPartland, J. (2009). Face and object perception in Asperger syndrome. Koln, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing
    • McPartland, J., Klin, A., Westphal, A. & Volkmar, F. (2008). The autism spectrum disorders. In A. Tasman, J. Kay, J. Lieberman, M. First & M. Maj (Eds.), Psychiatry (3rd ed., pp. 779-803). New York: Wiley.
    • McPartland, J. & Klin, A. (2006). Asperger's Syndrome. Adolescent Medicine Clinics of North America, 17, 771-788.
    • Dawson, G., Webb, S. & McPartland, J. (2005). Understanding the nature of face processing impairment in autism: Insights from behavioral and electrophysiological studies. Developmental Neuropsychology, 27, 403-424.

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