Pär Nyström
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 21 39
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 064 64 87
- E-mail:
- par.nystrom@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am an associate professor in psychology with a focus on developmental processes in younger children. I work within Uppsala Barn- och Babylab, and also in a longitudinal project in collaboration with KI: Projekt Småsyskon, with the goal of identifying early markers for autism and ADHD.
In addition to research, I have developed analysis tools to make social science research more transparent and replicable. I have also worked as director of studies and with organisation development.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2026
- DOI for Clinical Heterogeneity Among Preschoolers Recruited as Infants Due to Elevated Likelihood of Autism: A Sibling Study
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Part of Developmental Science, 2026
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Automated Infant Eye Tracking: A Systematic Historical Review
Part of Infancy, 2025
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A deconstruction of expertise and performance through arcade games
Part of IEEE Transactions on Games, p. 249-256, 2025
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Part of Psychological Science, p. 296-307, 2025
- DOI for Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2026
- DOI for Clinical Heterogeneity Among Preschoolers Recruited as Infants Due to Elevated Likelihood of Autism: A Sibling Study
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Part of Developmental Science, 2026
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A deconstruction of expertise and performance through arcade games
Part of IEEE Transactions on Games, p. 249-256, 2025
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Part of Psychological Science, p. 296-307, 2025
- DOI for Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change
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Infant responses to direct gaze and associations to autism: A live eye-tracking study
Part of Autism, p. 1677-1689, 2024
- DOI for Infant responses to direct gaze and associations to autism: A live eye-tracking study
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Directed causal effect with PCMCI in hyperscanning EEG time series
Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024
- DOI for Directed causal effect with PCMCI in hyperscanning EEG time series
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A field test of computer-vision-based gaze estimation in psychology
Part of Behavior Research Methods, p. 1900-1915, 2024
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People overlook subtractive changes differently depending on age, culture, and task
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Context dependent cognitive development in Bhutanese children
Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
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Remote, tablet-based assessment of gaze following: a nationwide infant twin study
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
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Investigating the development of the autonomic nervous system in infancy through pupillometry
Part of Journal of neural transmission, p. 723-734, 2023
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Global motion processing in infants’ visual cortex and the emergence of autism
Part of Communications Biology, 2023
- DOI for Global motion processing in infants’ visual cortex and the emergence of autism
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Part of Child Development, 2022
- DOI for A Pre-registered Sticky Mittens Study: Active Training does not Increase Reaching and Grasping in a Swedish Context
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 995-1006, 2022
- DOI for How Does Temperament in Toddlers at Elevated Likelihood for Autism Relate to Symptoms of Autism and ADHD at Three Years of Age?
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Larger pupil dilation to nonsocial sounds in infants with subsequent autism diagnosis
Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 793-801, 2022
- DOI for Larger pupil dilation to nonsocial sounds in infants with subsequent autism diagnosis
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Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 1068-1077, 2022
- DOI for Pupil size and pupillary light reflex in early infancy: heritability and link to genetic liability to schizophrenia
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Part of Autism, p. 1668-1680, 2022
- DOI for What are you looking at?: Gaze following with and without target objects in ASD and typical development
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Eye tracking in human interaction: Possibilities and limitations
Part of Behavior Research Methods, p. 1592-1608, 2021
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Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 1308-1319, 2021
- DOI for Development of the pupillary light reflex from 9 to 24 months: association with common autism spectrum disorder (ASD) genetic liability and 3-year ASD diagnosis
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Part of Cerebral Cortex, p. 4068-4077, 2021
- DOI for T1-Weighted/T2-Weighted Ratio Mapping at 5 Months Captures Individual Differences in Behavioral Development and Differentiates Infants at Familial Risk for Autism from Controls
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 4186-4198, 2021
- DOI for Updating Expectations about Unexpected Object Motion in Infants Later Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Can the Brain Build Probability Distributions?
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 364-370, 2021
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 4085-4105, 2020
- DOI for Atypical Development of Attentional Control Associates with Later Adaptive Functioning, Autism and ADHD Traits
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Part of Autism, p. 1650-1663, 2020
- DOI for Motor atypicalities in infancy are associated with general developmental level at 2 years, but not autistic symptoms
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Joint attention in infancy and the emergence of autism
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 631-638, 2019
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Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 1342-1351, 2019
- DOI for Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism
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Reduced Orienting to Audiovisual Synchrony in Infancy Predicts Autism Diagnosis at 3 Years of Age
Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 872-880, 2018
- DOI for Reduced Orienting to Audiovisual Synchrony in Infancy Predicts Autism Diagnosis at 3 Years of Age
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Enhanced pupillary light reflex in infancy is associated with autism diagnosis in toddlerhood
Part of Nature Communications, 2018
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Part of Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, p. 1547-1561, 2018
- DOI for Reduced alternating gaze during social interaction in infancy is associated with elevated symptoms of autism in toddlerhood
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Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018
- DOI for The Immersive Virtual Reality Lab: Possibilities for Remote Experimental Manipulations of Autonomic Activity on a Large Scale
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Part of Medical Hypotheses, p. 64-66, 2017
- DOI for Infant acetylcholine, dopamine, and melatonin dysregulation: Neonatal biomarkers and causal factors for ASD and ADHD phenotypes
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 3498-3509, 2017
- DOI for Responding to Other People's Direct Gaze: Alterations in Gaze Behavior in Infants at Risk for Autism Occur on Very Short Timescales
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Part of Best Practice, 2017
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Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 4-12, 2017
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Part of Medical Hypotheses, p. 64-66, 2017
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How social is the chaser?: Neural correlates of chasing perception in 9-month-old infants
Part of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, p. 270-278, 2016
- DOI for How social is the chaser?: Neural correlates of chasing perception in 9-month-old infants
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Part of Behavior Research Methods, p. 542-552, 2016
- DOI for The TimeStudio Project: An open source scientific workflow system for the behavioral and brain sciences
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Visual Attention to Dynamic Spatial Relations in Infants and Adults
Part of Infancy, p. 90-103, 2016
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Social perception: How do 6-month-old infants look at pointing gestures?
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 152-156, 2016
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Altered gaze following during live interaction in infants at risk for autism: An eye tracking study
Part of Molecular Autism, 2016
- DOI for Altered gaze following during live interaction in infants at risk for autism: An eye tracking study
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Infants' preference for individual agents within chasing interactions
Part of Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), p. 53-70, 2016
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Hypersensitive pupillary light reflex in infants at risk for autism
Part of Molecular Autism, 2015
- DOI for Hypersensitive pupillary light reflex in infants at risk for autism
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Sustained attention in infancy as a longitudinal predictor of self-regulatory functions
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 1-11, 2015
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Human Infants Detect Other People's Interactions Based on Complex Patterns of Kinematic Information.
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Using mu rhythm desynchronization to measure mirror neuron activity in infants
Part of Developmental Science, p. 327-335, 2011
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Reorganization of Global Form and Motion Processing during Human Visual Development
Part of Current Biology, p. 411-415, 2010
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Form and Motion VERPs in Adults and Infants
Part of Current Biology, p. 411-415, 2010
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The infant mirror neuron system studied with high density EEG
Part of Social Neuroscience, p. 334-347, 2008
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Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
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Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
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Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
Articles, review/survey
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
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Eye Tracking in Human Interaction: Possibilities and Limitations
Part of Companion Publicaton of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '20 Companion), p. 508-508, 2020
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Part of 18Th Annual Conference Of The International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017), Vols 1-6, p. 309-313, 2017
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2015
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Gaze Following in Infants at Risk for Autism: the Role of Eye Information and Head Turns
2015