Graduate student
University of Bath
I am a PhD researcher in psychology at the University of Bath, exploring ways we can measure and understand autistic traits.
My work involves using innovative statistical and data science concepts to validate, improve and create autistic trait measures and analyse autistic traits more widely. I also explore how autistic traits relate and interact with other social psychological factors, such as compensation strategies.
Spectrum spoke to the researchers who uncovered an error in autism screening guidelines that have been in use for nearly a decade.
The U.K. clinical guidelines used to screen for autism contain an error, which may have resulted in many delayed or missed diagnoses over the past decade.
The motor cortex is organized into an "intermixed jumble of tiles" to generate meaningful movement.
The motor cortex is organized into an "intermixed jumble of tiles" to generate meaningful movement.
The editor resigned after the publisher’s artificial-intelligence system overrode his selection of referees for a manuscript. His move prompted an internal review of the system.
The editor resigned after the publisher’s artificial-intelligence system overrode his selection of referees for a manuscript. His move prompted an internal review of the system.
Cristopher Moore discusses the nature of computation and whether we should think of neural activity as computing.
Cristopher Moore discusses the nature of computation and whether we should think of neural activity as computing.