Dr Joe McCleery PhD

 

Lecturer in Developmental Neuroscience

School of Psychology

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 49775

Email j.p.mccleery@bham.ac.uk

University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

Dr McCleery is interested in typical and atypical social-emotional, social-communicative, and language development.

Qualifications

  • BA (Rutgers)
  • MA (University of California San Diego)
  • PhD (University of California San Diego)
  • Postdoctoral training (Harvard Medical School)

Research

Dr McCleery's primary focus of my research is on infants and young children who are at risk for autism and other developmental and psychiatric disorders. He utilizes electroencephalography, event-related potentials, visual psychophysics, eye-tracking, and clinical-behavioural measures in an effort to further our understanding of the neural and behavioural mechanisms that underlie typical and atypical functioning and development.

For more information please see the McCleery Group pages.

Listen to Dr McCleery's podcast 'Laughing babies and ripping paper' (MP3 - 7.1MB).

Publications

Streltsova, A. & McCleery, J. P. (2013). Neural time-course of the observation of human and non-human object touch. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, in press.

Cornew, L., Dobkins, K. R., Akshoomoff, N., McCleery, J. P., & Carver, L. J. (2012). Atypical social referencing in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42 (12), 2611-2621.

Oberman, L. M., McCleery, J. P., Hubbard, E. M., Bernier, R., Wiersema, J. R., Raymaekers, R., & Pineda, J. A. (2012). Developmental changes in mu suppression to observed and executed actions in autism spectrum disorders. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, in press.

McCleery, J. P., Surtees, A., Graham, K. A., Richards, J. E., & Apperly, I. A. (2011). Neural and cognitive time-course of theory of mind. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(36), 12849-12854.

McCleery, J. P., Ceponiene, R., Burner, K. M., Townsend, J., Kinnear, M., & Schreibman, L. (2010). Neural correlates of verbal and nonverbal semantic integration in children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(3), 277-286.

McCleery, J. P., Akshoomoff, N., Dobkins, K. R., & Carver, L. J. (2009). Atypical face vs. object processing and hemispheric asymmetries in 10-month-old infants at risk for autism. Biological Psychiatry, in press.

Dobkins, K. R., Bosworth, R. G., & McCleery, J. P. (2009). Effects of gestational length, gender, postnatal age, and birth order on visual contrast sensitivity in infants. Journal of Vision, in press.

Nelson, C. A., & McCleery, J. P. (2008). Use of event-related potentials in the study of typical and atypical development. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47(11), 1252-1261.

McCleery, J. P., Zhang, L., Ge, L., Wang, Z., Christiansen, E. M., Lee, K., & Cottrell, G. W. (2008). The roles of visual expertise and visual input in the face inversion effect: Behavioral and neurocomputational evidence. Vision Research, 48(5), 703-715.

McCleery, J. P., Allman, E. A., Carver, L. J., & Dobkins, K. R. (2007). Abnormal magnocellular pathway visual processing in infants at risk for autism. Biological Psychiatry, 62(9), 1007-1014.

Oberman, L. M., McCleery, J. P., Ramachandran, V. S., & Pineda, J. A. (2007). EEG evidence for mirror neuron activity during the observation of robot actions: Toward an assessment of the human qualities of interactive robots. Neurocomputing, 70 (13-15), 2194-2203.

McCleery, J. P., Tully, L. M., Slevc, L. R., & Schreibman, L. (2006). Consonant production patterns of young severely language-delayed children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Communication Disorders, 39, 217-231.

Ge, L., Wang, Z., McCleery, J. P., & Lee, K. (2006). Face expertise activation and the inversion effect. Psychological Science, 17(1),12-16.

Oberman, L. M., Hubbard, E. M., McCleery, J. P., Altschuler, E. A., Ramachandran, V. S., & Pineda, J. A. (2005). EEG evidence for mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 190-198. 

Expertise

Infant and child social, emotional, and language development; autism spectrum disorders; language-learning disorders; foster care; effects of the environment on infant and child brain and behavioural development; early assessment, early diagnosis, and early intervention.

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