Headshot of Mirko Uljarević.

Mirko Uljarević

Senior Research Fellow
School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia

Mirko Uljarević is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University in California.

From this contributor

A person stands in front of a neatly organized dresser drawer.
Spectrum

Teasing apart insistence on sameness with Mirko Uljarević

By Lauren Schenkman
30 October 2023 | 6 min read
Illustration shows scientist is observing social behavior in a large group of children
Spectrum

In search of ‘social’ subtypes of autism

By Thomas Frazier, Mirko Uljarević
21 July 2020 | 5 min read

Explore more from The Transmitter

Illustration of pipa frog showing nerves in fingertips.
Neuro’s ark

How the pipa frog hunts prey by touch

Each of the frog’s eight fingers branches into 16 ultra-sensitive tips, which together function as a fovea—potentially the first demonstration of this type of sensory structure outside of mammals.

By Calli McMurray
30 September 2026 | 7 min read
scaled
Letters to the editor

Response to ‘Finally, a new route for the magnetic-sense field’

Magnetoreception in Drosophila has much to offer those with an interest in neuroscience.

By Denis Henshaw
30 September 2026 | 3 min read
Research image of perineuronal nets.
Spectrum

Organoids missing the TSC2 gene form rogue astrocytes; and more

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 28 September.

By Jill Adams
29 September 2026 | 2 min read