Professor Elizabeth Milne
School of Psychology
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
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School of Psychology
Cathedral Court
1 Vicar Lane
Sheffield
S1 2LT
- Profile
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Professor Milne joined the University of Sheffield as a post-doctoral Fellow in 2004. She took on a lectureship in 2005 and became Head of the Psychology Department in 2020.
- Qualifications
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- BA Experimental Psychology (Oxford)
- PhD Psychology (UCL)
- Research interests
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I am interested in how perception and attention are altered in individuals who are neurodiverse. My work on this topic is broad and varied and ranges from EEG studies that investigate neural dynamics associated with neurodivergence to qualitative studies that shed light on lived experiences associated with neurodivergence.
Working in this area over the last twenty years has introduced me to some incredible people who have shared their ideas and insights and opened up new research avenues. Invariably this has involved work in mental health and some of my more recent work – led primarily by fantastic research students - addresses societal issues in neurodivergence such as loneliness, wellbeing, self-compassion and criticism.
I'm currently enjoying working as a mentor to Dr Dan Poole who has an ESRC New Investigator Award to study distraction in autism, and with collaborators in UCL, Oxford and Surrey as a co-investigator of an ESRC-funded study to investigate perceptual capacity in autism.
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- ‘Conflict versus Congruence’: A qualitative study exploring the experience of gender dysphoria for adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. View this article in WRRO
- Atypical EEG in autism spectrum disorder: Comparing a dimensional and a categorical approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(5), 442-452. View this article in WRRO
- Superior orientation discrimination and increased peak gamma frequency in autism spectrum conditions.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(3), 412-422. View this article in WRRO
- Increased peak gamma frequency in individuals with higher levels of autistic traits. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1095-1101. View this article in WRRO
- Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-14.
- Visual search performance is predicted by the degree to which selective attention to features modulates the ERP between 350 and 600ms.. Neuropsychologia, 51(6), 1109-1118.
- Brief report: preliminary evidence of reduced sensitivity in the peripheral visual field of adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.. J Autism Dev Disord, 43(8), 1976-1982.
- Evidence for a cultural influence on field-independence in autism spectrum disorder.. J Autism Dev Disord, 42(2), 181-190.
- Increased intra-participant variability in children with autistic spectrum disorders: evidence from single-trial analysis of evoked EEG. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. View this article in WRRO
- Spatial contrast sensitivity in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.. J Autism Dev Disord, 40(8), 978-987. View this article in WRRO
- Vision in children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder: evidence for reduced convergence.. J Autism Dev Disord, 39(7), 965-975.
- Reduced change blindness suggests enhanced attention to detail in individuals with autism.. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 50(3), 300-306.
- Global and local perceptual style, field-independence, and central coherence: An attempt at concept validation.. Adv Cogn Psychol, 5, 1-26. View this article in WRRO
- Independent component analysis reveals atypical electroencephalographic activity during visual perception in individuals with autism.. Biol Psychiatry, 65(1), 22-30.
- High motion coherence thresholds in children with autism.. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 43(2), 255-263.
- Stronger Neural Modulation by Visual Motion Intensity in Autism Spectrum Disorders. PLOS ONE, 10(7), e0132531-e0132531. View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. Journal of Cognition, 7(1).
- ‘A storm of post-it notes’: experiences of perceptual capacity in autism and ADHD. Neurodiversity, 2. View this article in WRRO
- Loneliness in Autism and Its Association with Anxiety and Depression: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-36.
- Experiences of criticism in adults with ADHD : a qualitative study. PLoS ONE, 17(2). View this article in WRRO
- No effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on visual evoked potential and peak gamma frequency.. Cogn Process.
- Investigating neural dynamics in autism spectrum conditions outside of the laboratory using mobile electroencephalography. Psychophysiology.
- Electrophysiological signatures of brain aging in autism spectrum disorder. Cortex.
- Reduced visual cortical plasticity in autism spectrum disorder. Brain Research Bulletin, 170, 11-21.
- Spontaneous neural activity relates to psychiatric traits in 16p11.2 CNV carriers: An analysis of EEG spectral power and multiscale entropy. Journal of Psychiatric Research.
- Investigating the effects of tDCS on visual orientation discrimination task performance: “the possible influence of placebo”. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 4, 235-249. View this article in WRRO
- Self-compassion and perceived criticism in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Mindfulness.
- ‘Conflict versus Congruence’: A qualitative study exploring the experience of gender dysphoria for adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. View this article in WRRO
- Atypical EEG in autism spectrum disorder: Comparing a dimensional and a categorical approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(5), 442-452. View this article in WRRO
- Atypical neural variability in carriers of 16p11.2 copy number variants. Autism Research. View this article in WRRO
- The cognitive profile of Sotos syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychology, 13(2), 240-252. View this article in WRRO
- Altered neural dynamics in people who report spontaneous out of body experiences.. Cortex, 111, 87-99. View this article in WRRO
- A diffusion model decomposition of orientation discrimination in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- Autistic Traits in the Neurotypical Population do not Predict Increased Response Conservativeness in Perceptual Decision Making. Perception, 47(10-11), 1081-1096.
- Novel PLS3 variants in X‐linked osteoporosis : exploring bone material properties. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 176(7), 1578-1586. View this article in WRRO
- Autism and heritable bone fragility: A true association?. Bone Reports, 8, 156-162. View this article in WRRO
- Lateral inhibition in the autism spectrum: An SSVEP study of visual cortical lateral interactions. Neuropsychologia, 111, 369-376. View this article in WRRO
- Frontal theta band oscillations predict error correction and posterror slowing in typing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(1), 69-88. View this article in WRRO
- Dual Coding of object relations: An alternative framework for understanding perceptual processing in autism?. Visual Cognition, 25(1-3), 122-132.
- Adults with autism spectrum conditions experience increased levels of anomalous perception. PLoS ONE, 12(5). View this article in WRRO
- The neurogenesis of P1 and N1: A concurrent EEG/LFP study. NeuroImage, 146, 575-588. View this article in WRRO
- The role of cortical sensorimotor oscillations in action anticipation.. NeuroImage, 146, 1102-1114. View this article in WRRO
- Resources available for autism research in the big data era: a systematic review. PeerJ, 5, e2880-e2880. View this article in WRRO
- Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Sotos Syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(1), 135-143. View this article in WRRO
- Variability of cortical oscillation patterns: A possible endophenotype in autism spectrum disorders?. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 71, 590-600.
- Understanding Perceptual Judgment in Autism Spectrum Disorder Using the Drift Diffusion Model.. Neuropsychology. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring neural excitation and inhibition in autism: different approaches, different findings and different interpretations.. Brain Research. View this article in WRRO
- Electrophysiological Evidence of Atypical Spatial Attention in Those with a High Level of Self-reported Autistic Traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(6), 2199-2210. View this article in WRRO
- Superior orientation discrimination and increased peak gamma frequency in autism spectrum conditions.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(3), 412-422. View this article in WRRO
- Contingent negative variation (CNV) associated with sensorimotor timing error correction. NeuroImage, 127, 58-66. View this article in WRRO
- Cognition and Behaviour in Sotos Syndrome: A Systematic Review. PLoS ONE, 11(2). View this article in WRRO
- Increased peak gamma frequency in individuals with higher levels of autistic traits. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1095-1101. View this article in WRRO
- Response to Davis and Plaisted-Grant: Low or high endogenous neural noise in autism spectrum disorder?. Autism, 19(3), 363-364.
- Oblique orientation discrimination thresholds are superior in those with a high level of autistic traits.. J Autism Dev Disord, 44(11), 2844-2850. View this article in WRRO
- Enhanced and impaired sensory discrimination in autism. Journal of Neurophysiology, 112(6), 1599-1599.
- Right Temporoparietal Gray Matter Predicts Accuracy of Social Perception in the Autism Spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-14.
- Abstracts of Presentations at the International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging (BaCI), a Joint Conference of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP), the International Society for Functional Source Imaging (ISFSI), the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism (ISBEM), the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS), in Geneva, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2013. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 44(4), E1-E121.
- A cross-cultural comparison of autistic traits in the UK, India and Malaysia.. J Autism Dev Disord, 43(11), 2569-2583.
- Visual search performance is predicted by the degree to which selective attention to features modulates the ERP between 350 and 600ms.. Neuropsychologia, 51(6), 1109-1118.
- Multidimensional EEG analysis reveals a transient cortical network in early visual processing. PERCEPTION, 42, 60-60.
- Brief report: preliminary evidence of reduced sensitivity in the peripheral visual field of adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.. J Autism Dev Disord, 43(8), 1976-1982.
- The distribution of and relationship between autistic traits and social anxiety in a UK student population.. Autism, 17(5), 571-581.
- Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially attend to biological motion.. J Autism Dev Disord, 42(3), 401-408.
- Evidence for a cultural influence on field-independence in autism spectrum disorder.. J Autism Dev Disord, 42(2), 181-190.
- Increased intra-participant variability in children with autistic spectrum disorders: evidence from single-trial analysis of evoked EEG. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. View this article in WRRO
- Corrigendum to "Contrast sensitivity for motion detection and direction discrimination in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and their siblings" [Neuropsychologia 48 (14) (2010) 4046-4056]. Neuropsychologia, 49(7), 2142.
- Contrast sensitivity for motion detection and direction discrimination in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and their siblings.. Neuropsychologia, 48(14), 4046-4056. View this article in WRRO
- Development of motion processing in children with autism.. Dev Sci, 13(6), 826-838.
- Spatial contrast sensitivity in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.. J Autism Dev Disord, 40(8), 978-987. View this article in WRRO
- A comparison of the development of audiovisual integration in children with autism spectrum disorders and typically developing children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40(11), 1403-1411. View this article in WRRO
- Asymmetry in face processing during childhood measured with chimeric faces.. Laterality, 15(4), 439-450.
- Vision in children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder: evidence for reduced convergence.. J Autism Dev Disord, 39(7), 965-975.
- Reduced change blindness suggests enhanced attention to detail in individuals with autism.. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 50(3), 300-306.
- Global and local perceptual style, field-independence, and central coherence: An attempt at concept validation.. Adv Cogn Psychol, 5, 1-26. View this article in WRRO
- Independent component analysis reveals atypical electroencephalographic activity during visual perception in individuals with autism.. Biol Psychiatry, 65(1), 22-30.
- Are children with autistic spectrum disorders susceptible to contour illusions?. BRIT J DEV PSYCHOL, 26, 91-102.
- The Social Communication Assessment for Toddlers with Autism (SCATA): An instrument to measure the frequency, form and function of communication in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. J AUTISM DEV DISORD, 37(4), 648-666.
- View this article in WRRO Visual perception and visual dysfunction in autism spectrum disorder: a literature review. British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, 15-20.
- A double dissociation between sensorimotor impairments and reading disability: A comparison of autistic and dyslexic children. COGN NEUROPSYCHOL, 23(5), 748-761.
- The role of sensorimotor impairments in dyslexia: a multiple case study of dyslexic children. DEVELOPMENTAL SCI, 9(3), 237-255.
- Motion and form coherence detection in autistic spectrum disorder: Relationship to motor control and 2:4 digit ratio.. J Autism Dev Disord, 36(2), 225-237.
- Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder: A review. CAH PSYCHOL COGN, 23(1-2), 3-33.
- Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder: A reply to the commentaries. CAH PSYCHOL COGN, 23(1-2), 213-226.
- Speechreading skill and visual movement sensitivity are related in deaf speechreaders. PERCEPTION, 34(2), 205-216.
- Inhibitory attentional control in patients with frontal lobe damage. BRAIN COGNITION, 52(2), 258-270.
- Does the perception of moving eyes trigger reflexive visual orienting in autism?. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 358(1430), 325-334.
- High motion coherence thresholds in children with autism.. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 43(2), 255-263.
- Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions in humans eliminate implicit gender stereotyping. J NEUROSCI, 21(12), art. no.-RC150.
- The role of self‐compassion in the mental health of adults with ADHD. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
- The relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety in autism: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Autism, 136236132093243-136236132093243.
- Stronger Neural Modulation by Visual Motion Intensity in Autism Spectrum Disorders. PLOS ONE, 10(7), e0132531-e0132531. View this article in WRRO
- Contrast sensitivity thresholds in children with autistic spectrum disorder. British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, 7(0), 62-62. View this article in WRRO
- Robust association between autistic traits and psychotic-like experiences in the adult general population: epidemiological study from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey and replication with the 2014 APMS. Psychological Medicine, 1-7.
- Working memory guidance of visual attention to threat in offenders. PLoS ONE.
Chapters
- Source analysis in motor imagery EEG BCI applications, EEG Signal Processing: Feature extraction, selection and classification methods (pp. 117-140). Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Source Localization for Brain-Computer Interfaces In Hassanien A & Azar A (Ed.), Brain-Computer Interfaces (pp. 125-153). Cham: Springer.
- Advanced fMRI and the Brain Computer Interface In Hassanien A & Azar A (Ed.), Brain-Computer Interfaces (pp. 185-213).
- Autism Across Cultures: Perspectives From Non-Western Cultures and Implications for Research John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Conference proceedings papers
- Feature extraction for BCIs based on electromagnetic source localization and multiclass Filter Bank Common Spatial Patterns. 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015, Vol. 2015-November (pp 1773-1776), 25 August 2015 - 29 August 2015.
- Feature extraction for BCIs based on electromagnetic source localization and Common Spatial Patterns. 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2015
- ERP evidence of reduced spatial selectivity in those with high levels of self-reported autistic traits. PERCEPTION, Vol. 44 (pp 294-295)
- Application of compressive sensing for EEG source localization in Brain Computer Interfaces. 2014 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 10 November 2014 - 11 November 2014.
- Abnormal N1/PA responses in children with autism elicited by both low and high spatial frequency gratings. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL, Vol. 20(4) (pp 328-328)
Datasets
- Data for paper 'Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions Experience Increased Levels of Anomalous Perception'.
Preprints
- Lack of univariate, clinically-relevant biomarkers of autism in resting state EEG: a study of 776 participants, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Putting the spotlight back onto the flanker task in autism: autistic adults show increased interference from foils compared with non-autistic adults., Center for Open Science.
- Electrophysiological signatures of brain aging in autism spectrum disorder, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Research group
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Neuroscience and Cognition
Current PhD students
- Abigail Dickinson
- Ben Dornan
- Stephanie Dunn
- Jen Gallagher (DClin Psy)
- Holly Johnson (DClin Psy)
- Luisa Rosas
- Saima Eman (secondary supervisor)
- Aleksandr Zaitcev (secondary supervisor)
Previous PhD students
- Tom Bullock
- Hwan-Cui Koh
- Natalie Taylor (DClin Psy)
- Abeer Aljuhanay (secondary supervisor)
- Grants
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- BBSRC research grant “Understanding neural excitation and inhibition: implications for the interpretation of extracellular field potentials and neurovascular coupling” Y. Zheng, M. Jones, E. Milne, D. Coca, S.A. Billings & P. Redgrave (2013 – 2016).
- World University Network grant to support a sabbatical visit to the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (2007)
- ESRC research grant "Measuring the visual field in children with autistic spectrum disorder" E.Milne, D. Buckley and H. Griffiths
- ESRC research grant "The perception of Biological Motion in Autism" J. Swettenham, E. Milne and R. Campbell (2005)
- 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)
- Teaching activities
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I currently teach cognitive neuroscience at level 3 (PSY323).
- PhD Opportunities
We advertise PhD opportunities (Funded or Self-Funded) on FindAPhD.com
For further information, please see the department PhD Opportunities page.