Chris Ashwin

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Chris Ashwin is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Ashwin has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 27 papers in Clinical Psychology and 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Chris Ashwin's work include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (36 papers), Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (15 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (12 papers). Chris Ashwin is often cited by papers focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (36 papers), Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (15 papers) and Face Recognition and Perception (12 papers). Chris Ashwin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Italy. Chris Ashwin's co-authors include Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Edward T. Bullmore, Mark Brosnan, Steven Williams, Howard Ring, Emma Ashwin, Elaine Fox, Teresa Tavassoli and Emma Chapman and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Chris Ashwin

65 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The amygdala theory of autism

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Chris Ashwin	3.0k	1.1k	706	630	600	69	3.8k
Gregor Kohls	2.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	735 1.0×	509 0.8×	679 1.1×	56	3.5k
Jennifer H. Foss‐Feig	2.7k 0.9×	807 0.7×	483 0.7×	602 1.0×	809 1.3×	72	3.4k
John D. Herrington	3.7k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	503 0.7×	965 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	80	4.7k
Vanessa Troiani	2.7k 0.9×	670 0.6×	737 1.0×	357 0.6×	520 0.9×	62	3.3k
Teodora Gliga	2.8k 0.9×	951 0.8×	1.3k 1.8×	501 0.8×	637 1.1×	89	3.9k
Christine Deruelle	2.7k 0.9×	602 0.5×	922 1.3×	559 0.9×	350 0.6×	94	3.5k
Inge‐Marie Eigsti	3.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	1.8k 2.5×	467 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	105	5.0k
Leslie J. Carver	3.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	1.4k 1.9×	322 0.5×	828 1.4×	59	4.9k
Kate Plaisted	3.6k 1.2×	730 0.6×	1.8k 2.5×	381 0.6×	736 1.2×	27	4.3k
Elizabeth Milne	2.5k 0.8×	532 0.5×	849 1.2×	283 0.4×	422 0.7×	82	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Ashwin

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Rai, Dheeraj, et al.. (2025). Obsessional thinking and autistic traits are each uniquely associated with greater traits of gender dysphoria in clinical and nonclinical adult samples. Molecular Autism. 16(1). 20–20.

Hinvest, Neal, et al.. (2024). Inter‐brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs. British Journal of Psychology. 116(1). 170–182.

Rai, Dheeraj, et al.. (2024). A Systematic Review of Gender Dysphoria Measures in Autistic Samples. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 53(8). 2863–2882. 2 indexed citations

Sun, James J., Bhathika Perera, William Henley, et al.. (2022). Epilepsy related multimorbidity, polypharmacy and risks in adults with intellectual disabilities: a national study. Journal of Neurology. 269(5). 2750–2760. 36 indexed citations

Brosnan, Mark & Chris Ashwin. (2022). Differences in Art Appreciation in Autism: A Measure of Reduced Intuitive Processing. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 53(11). 4382–4389. 8 indexed citations

Taylor, Emily, Lucy A. Livingston, Mitchell J. Callan, Chris Ashwin, & Punit Shah. (2021). Autonomic dysfunction in autism: The roles of anxiety, depression, and stress. Autism. 25(3). 744–752. 20 indexed citations

Taylor, Emily, Rosemary Holt, Teresa Tavassoli, Chris Ashwin, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2020). Revised scored Sensory Perception Quotient reveals sensory hypersensitivity in women with autism. Molecular Autism. 11(1). 18–18. 28 indexed citations

Wingenbach, Tanja S. H., Mark Brosnan, Monique C. Pfaltz, Peter Peyk, & Chris Ashwin. (2020). Perception of Discrete Emotions in Others: Evidence for Distinct Facial Mimicry Patterns. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4692–4692. 25 indexed citations

Knott, Fiona, et al.. (2019). A pilot study of fascia Bowen therapy for 8-11 year-old boys with developmental coordination disorder. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. 23(3). 568–574. 5 indexed citations

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Wingenbach, Tanja S. H., Mark Brosnan, Monique C. Pfaltz, Michael M. Plichta, & Chris Ashwin. (2018). Incongruence Between Observers’ and Observed Facial Muscle Activation Reduces Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions From Video Stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 864–864. 5 indexed citations

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Wingenbach, Tanja S. H., Chris Ashwin, & Mark Brosnan. (2018). Sex differences in facial emotion recognition across varying expression intensity levels from videos. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0190634–e0190634. 92 indexed citations

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Ashwin, Chris, Sally Wheelwright, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2017). Differences in change blindness to real-life scenes in adults with autism spectrum conditions. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0185120–e0185120. 6 indexed citations

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Brosnan, Mark, et al.. (2016). Reasoning on the Autism Spectrum: A Dual Process Theory Account. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 46(6). 2115–2125. 91 indexed citations

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Ashwin, Chris, et al.. (2011). Enhanced anger superiority effect in generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 26(2). 329–336. 15 indexed citations

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Ashwin, Chris, et al.. (2010). Does emotion processing require attention? The effects of fear conditioning and perceptual load.. Emotion. 10(6). 822–830. 53 indexed citations

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Ashwin, Emma, et al.. (2008). Eagle-Eyed Visual Acuity: An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Perception in Autism. Biological Psychiatry. 65(1). 17–21. 99 indexed citations

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Baron‐Cohen, Simon, Daniel Bor, Jac Billington, et al.. (2007). Savant Memory in a Man with Colour Form-Number Synaesthesia and Asperger Syndrome. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 14. 237–251. 40 indexed citations

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Ashwin, Chris, Sally Wheelwright, & Simon Baron‐Cohen. (2006). Attention bias to faces in Asperger Syndrome: a pictorial emotion Stroop study. Psychological Medicine. 36(6). 835–843. 48 indexed citations

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Ashwin, Chris, Simon Baron‐Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, Michelle O’Riordan, & Edward T. Bullmore. (2006). Differential activation of the amygdala and the ‘social brain’ during fearful face-processing in Asperger Syndrome. Neuropsychologia. 45(1). 2–14. 290 indexed citations

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Gomot, Marie, Frédéric Bernard, Matthew H. Davis, et al.. (2005). Change detection in children with autism: An auditory event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage. 29(2). 475–484. 149 indexed citations

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