Julia Yurkovic-Harding

PhD Student studying Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Science
@IUPsych | @MarcusAutism & @UoR_BrainCogSci alumna

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

We have a new paper out in @CurrentBiology where we found that children with ASD engage in joint attention at typical rates during naturalistic toy play! They use hand-following rather than gaze-following pathways to get there, similar to their TD peers.

https://t.co/hVoWxAuAnG

[Dan Kennedy @DanKennedyIU]

A beautiful writeup by Karen Adolph and Kelsey West highlighting our recent work on joint attention in autism during toy play (spoiler: hands matter more than eye contact). @YurkovicHarding @Chen_Yu_CY @BeccaCShaffer @DrKelliD
https://t.co/R0MjJNduIm

[@IAmSciComm - On a Break! @iamscicomm]

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[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

@isaStallworthy @BerryLabUMN @UMN_ICD @AcademicChatter Congratulations! Success well earned! 🥳

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

Shout-outs to my advisors @DanKennedyIU and @Chen_Yu_CY for writing this paper with me, Grace Lisandrelli for starting this work, and our collaborators at Cincinnati (@BeccaCShaffer, Kelli Dominick, Craig Erickson, Ernie Pedapati) for their clinical perspective and resources!

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

We have a new paper out in @CurrentBiology where we found that children with ASD engage in joint attention at typical rates during naturalistic toy play! They use hand-following rather than gaze-following pathways to get there, similar to their TD peers.

https://t.co/hVoWxAuAnG

[Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew]

Children With Autism Exhibit Typical Joint Attention During Toy Play With a Parent

Young children on the autism spectrum achieved joined attention similar to that of a neurotypical child when playing with their parents.

#autism #neuroscience #science

https://t.co/knT1pChXkT

[Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis]

Note: "This work raises questions about the meaning of joint attention deficits in autism..."

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

Excited to see our work covered in the @Spectrum "Null & Noteworthy" newsletter! And equally excited to see science media focusing on non-significant results - an important component of the scientific process.

https://t.co/p7EuFbuAwJ

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

And, this is the first study (to our knowledge) to use head-mounted eye trackers to study the moment-by-moment gaze dynamics of children during a social interaction.

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

Our work on exploration in children with and without ASD is out today! We found no differences in the way that children in both groups attend to and act on toys when they're playing with a parent!

@DanKennedyIU @Chen_Yu_CY

https://t.co/BBJNfINyFx

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

Studying children in natural, embodied contexts reveals disparate results from more constrained task - context matters!

[Dan Kennedy @DanKennedyIU]

If you haven’t already done so, please ramp up your amygdala activity and keep your distance from others. https://t.co/NlFUSum5ox

[Ye He @heyebrain]

Our work is just on preprint @DanKennedyIU @ Lisa Byrge: Non-replication of functional connectivity differences in ASD: a multi-site study
https://t.co/j5joZLx4Ti
Thanks to @LindenParkes sharing his codes for fMRI preprocessing.

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

Had fun presenting this data at #ICIS2018! https://t.co/PYa5zMakuD

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Julia Yurkovic: Children with ASD show sensitivity to the shared attention of a social partner during a play session, despite findings of less social attention during screen-based eyetracking tasks. #ICIS18 #icis2018

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

Excited about the great work happening in one of my graduate research labs! https://t.co/18iD0ldJIj

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

https://t.co/9g516mTFUh

[Julia Yurkovic-Harding @YurkovicHarding]

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