Below are a list of our publications in the area of reading and autism. Most are freely available – you can click on them to access a full copy. If you have trouble accessing any for free, please get in touch and we will send you a version.

Howard, P. L., & Pagán, A. (2023). No evidence for high inflexible precision of prediction errors in autism during lexical processing. Autism Research, 16(9), 1775-1785.

Howard, P. L., & Sedgewick, F. (2021). ‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community. Autism, 25(8), 2265-2278.

Howard, P. L., Zhang, L., & Benson, V. (2019). What Can Eye Movements Tell Us about Subtle Cognitive Processing Differences in Autism? Vision, 3(2), 22.

Au Yeung, Sheena, Kaakinen, J.K., Liversedge, Simon Paul and Benson, Valerie (2018) Would adults with autism be less likely to bury the survivors? An eye movement study of anomalous text reading. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (1). pp. 280-290. ISSN 1747-0218

Howard, P. L., Liversedge, S. P., & Benson, V. (2017). Processing of Co-Reference in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. DOI: 10.1002/aur.1845.

Howard, P. L., Liversedge, S. P., & Benson, V. (2017). Investigating the Use of World Knowledge During On-line Comprehension in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(7), 2039–2053. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3129

Howard, P. L., Liversedge, S. P., & Benson, V. (2016). Benchmark Eye Movement Effects During Natural Reading in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 43(1), 109-127. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000289

Au Yeung, Sheena, Kaakinen, J.K., Liversedge, Simon Paul and Benson, Valerie (2015) Processing of written irony in Autism Spectrum Disorder: an eye-movement study. Autism Research, 8 (6). pp. 749-760. ISSN 1939-3792

Benson, Valerie and Fletcher-Watson, S. (2011) Eye movements in autism spectrum disorder. In: The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements. Oxford University Press (OUP).