My interests are in developmental disorders, with autism as the main focus. Much of my work has been concerned with understanding the causal basis of autism, mainly at the cognitive level, which led me to work on theory of mind, central coherence and executive function. For my PhD, I therefore looked at individual performance within these three areas and related this back to behavioural symptoms. During my current fellowship, I've been extending this sort of approach through an imaging study as well as further behavioural studies.

Before my PhD, I studied social cognition in autism to try to understand what aspects were impaired and intact, which ended up focussing mainly on social stereotypes. I've also worked on dyslexia, studying the role of sensorimotor processing in literacy and phonology impairments. This has also lead to an interest in the occurence of sensorimotor impairments in developmental disorders in general, and literacy and phonology skills in autism.

Bibliography

Papers

1. White S, Hill E, Happé F & Frith U (in prep). Revisiting the Strange Stories: the wider effects of mentalising impairment in autism.

2. White S, O'Reilly H & Frith U (submitted). Big heads, small details and autism.

3. Hirschfeld L, Bartmess E, White S & Frith U (2007). Can autistic children predict behaviour by social stereotypes? Current Biology, 17:R451-452.

4. White S, Hill E, Winston J & Frith U (2006). An islet of social ability in Asperger Syndrome: judging social attributes from faces. Brain and Cognition, 61:69-77.

5. Milne E, White S, Campbell R, Swettenham J, Hansen P & Ramus F (2006). Motion and form coherence detection in autism spectrum disorder: relationship to motor control and 2:4 digit ratio. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36:225-237.

6. White S, Frith U, Milne E, Rosen S, Swettenham J, & Ramus F (2006). A double dissociation between sensorimotor impairments and reading disability: A comparison of dyslexic and autistic children. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23:748-761.

7. White S, Milne E, Rosen S, Hansen P, Swettenham J, Frith U & Ramus F (2006). The role of sensorimotor processing in dyslexia: a multiple case study of dyslexic children. Developmental Science, 9:237-265. Followed by commentaries by Bishop, Goswami, Nicolson & Fawcett, and Tallal.

8. Ramus F, White S & Frith U. Weighing the evidence between competing theories of dyslexia. Developmental Science, 9:265-269.

9. Ramus F, Rosen S, Dakin S, Day B, Castellote J, White S & Frith U (2003). Theories of developmental dyslexia: insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults. Brain, 126:841-865.

Presentations

1. Mini workshop on current autism research at the ICN, 'Subgroups on the autism spectrum' (Apr 07)

2. Experimental Psychology Society Conference, Cardiff, 'Cognitive heterogeneity in the autism spectrum' (Apr 07)

3. British Council seminar for young scientists on cognitive neuroscience and neuro-imaging of development, Paris, France, 'Big heads, small details and autism' (Mar 07)

4. Invited lecture at 7th National Autism Congress, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 'Subtypes in the autism spectrum: from cognition to behaviour' (Mar 07)

5. BPS Developmental Conference, Royal Holloway London, 'Big heads, small details and autism' (Sept 06)

6. International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Montreal, Canada, 'How do cognitive impairments affect intelligence test performance in ASD?' (May 06)

7. Institute of Child Health, Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, 'Subtypes in the autism spectrum: from cognition to behaviour' (Mar 06)

8. Goldsmiths College University of London, Personality and Psychopathology group, 'Subtypes in the autism spectrum: from cognition to behaviour' (Feb 06)

9. Centre for Autism and Related Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, 'An islet of social ability in Asperger Syndrome: judging social attributes from faces' (Nov 05)

10. BPS Developmental Conference, Edinburgh, 'Sensorimotor processing in dyslexic and autistic children: a multiple case study' (Sept 05)

11. Nottingham Childhood Research in Autism, Cognition and Reasoning, 'An islet of social ability in autism: understanding stereotypes' (June 05)

12. British Neuropsychological Society Conference, London, 'Sensorimotor processing in dyslexic and autistic children: a multiple case study' (Nov 03)

13. Nottingham MRC Hearing Research Centre, 'Sensorimotor processing in dyslexic and autistic children: a multiple case study' (Nov 03)

14. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Conference, Reading, 'Similarities and differences on cognitive tasks related to literacy in children with autism and with dyslexia' (Sept 03)

15. Bangor Dyslexia Conference, 'Sensorimotor processing in dyslexic children: a multiple case study' (July 03)

Posters

1. White S, Hill E, & Frith U (2007). Big heads, small details and autism. International Meeting for Autism Research.

2. White S, Hill E, & Frith U (2007). Revisiting the Strange Stories: a test of understanding mental and physical states for children with autism. Experimental Psychology Society Conference.

3. White S, Hill E, & Frith U (2006). What can macrocephaly tell us about autism? Experimental Psychology Society Conference.

4. Bartmess E, White S, Frith U & Hirshfeld L (2005). Non-Theory-of- Mind social reasoning: Autistic children's understanding of social category membership. Society for Research in Child Development Conference.

5. Bird C, Hill E, White S, Angell P & Frith U (2005). Executive processes in high functioning autism: patterns of performance in a multiple case series. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology.

6. White S, Hill E, Winston J, O'Doherty J & Frith U (2005). Social judgements from faces in autism. Experimental Psychology Society Conference.

7. White S, Hill E, Winston J, O'Doherty J & Frith U (2004). Social judgements from faces in autism. British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference (awarded poster prize).

8. White S, Hill E & Frith U (2003). Strange Stories: understanding mental states, physical states and jumbled sentences in children and adults with autism. British Psychological Society Developmental Section Conference.

9. Dace (White) S, Ramus F, Rosen S & Frith U (2002). Temporal auditory processing in dyslexia: cause or co-occurrence. Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, International Speech Communication Association.

10. Ramus F, Dace (White) S, Rosen S & Frith U (2002). Temporal processing deficits in dyslexic children with and without comorbid disorders. Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, International Speech Communication Association.

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