Dr Elizabeth Milne
Address
The University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TP, UK
Tel: (+44) 0114 22 26558
Fax: (+44) 0114 27 66515
Email E.Milne@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 2-8
Qualifications
BA Experimental Psychology (Oxford), PhD Psychology (UCL)
Research Interests
I am interested in perceptual processes in people who have developmental disorders.
Low-level visual perception
Specifically I work to discover more about low-level visual perception in individuals who have autistic spectrum disorders. My recent research has focussed on: motion perception; contrast sensitivity; visual evoked responses to simple visual stimuli (high and low spatial frequency); and how atypical perception may relate to the locally dominated perceptual style which is often said to characterise vision in autism.
Perceptions atypical in autism
The overarching goal of my research is to ascertain which aspects of perception are atypical in autism and which are spared, and to investigate the impact that atypical perception may have on the development of the cognitive profile and behavioural symptoms of people with developmental disorders such as autistic spectrum disorder.
Grants
ESRC research grant "Measuring the visual field in children with autistic spectrum disorder" E.Milne, D. Buckley and H. Griffiths (2006) £89,531
Medical School Devolved Fund University of Sheffield "Developmental trajectories of visual perception in children" E.Milne and D. Buckley (2006) £4,250
University project studentship "Electrophysiological Investigation of vision in developmental disorders" E.Milne (2006) approximately £45,000 to pay for a PhD studentship over 3 years
ESRC research grant "The perception of Biological Motion in Autism" J Swettenham, E. Milne and R. Campbell (2005) £168,082.51
Social Sciences Devolved Fund, University of Sheffield "The correlates of visual cognition. Is a global / local distinction in human vision valid?" E Milne and M Szczerbinski (2005) £4,000
Bial Foundation research grant "A combined psychophysical and electrophysiological approach to investigate low-level visual perception in autism" O Pascalis, E Milne and D Buckley (2004) €45,300
ESRC postdoctoral fellowship."Low-level visual processing in children with autism" E.Milne (2003 – 2004) £26,000
Activities and Distinctions
- Part of ESRC focus group on bringing in FEC (2004).
- Reviewer for: British Journal of Developmental Psychology; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Cognitive Brain Research; Developmental Science, Dyslexia; Neuropsychologia.
- Fellowship to attend Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth, NH, USA (2002).
- September 2005. “Abnormal N1 / P1 responses in children with autism elicited by both low and high spatial frequency gratings". Slide presentation given at the Methods in Mind conference, Aston.
- May 2004. “Degree of Global / Local processing is related to coherent motion detection”. Slide presentation given at the 3rd International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). Sacramento CA.
Key Publications
E. MILNE, S. WHITE, R. CAMPBELL, J. SWETTENHAM, P. HANSEN AND F. RAMUS (2006)
Motion and form coherence in autistic spectrum disorder: Relationship to motor control and 2:4 digit ratio.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 36, 225 - 237
S.WHITE, U.FRITH, E.MILNE, S.ROSEN, J.SWETTENHAM & F.RAMUS (2006)
A double dissociation between sensorimotor impairments and reading disability: A comparison of autistic and dyslexic children.
Cognitive Neuropsychology 23, 748 - 761
E.MILNE, J.SWETTENHAM AND R. CAMPBELL (2005)
Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder. A review.
Current Psychology of Cognition. 23, 3 – 34.
E. MILNE, J. SWETTENHAM, P. HANSEN, R. CAMPBELL, H. JEFFRIES & K. PLAISTED. (2002)
High Motion Coherence Thresholds in Children with Autism
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 43, 255 – 264.
E. MILNE AND J. GRAFMAN. (2001)
Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions in Humans Eliminate Implicit Gender Stereotyping.
Journal of Neuroscience 21:RC150 (1-6).
View a full list of Elizabeth Milne's publications.
Research Associates
- Angela Nyhout
- Dr Alison Scope - Measuring the visual field in children with autistic spectrum disorder.
PhD students
- Abeer Aljuhanay
- Tom Bullock
- Hwan Cui Koh - Electrophysiological investigation of vision in developmental disorders.
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