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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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
Infant responses to direct gaze and associations to autism: A live eye-tracking study
Part of Autism, p. 1677-1689, 2024
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A deconstruction of expertise and performance through arcade games
Part of IEEE Transactions on Games, 2024
Directed causal effect with PCMCI in hyperscanning EEG time series
Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024
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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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Infant responses to direct gaze and associations to autism: A live eye-tracking study
Part of Autism, p. 1677-1689, 2024
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A deconstruction of expertise and performance through arcade games
Part of IEEE Transactions on Games, 2024
Directed causal effect with PCMCI in hyperscanning EEG time series
Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024
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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
Global motion processing in infants’ visual cortex and the emergence of autism
Part of Communications Biology, 2023
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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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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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Larger pupil dilation to nonsocial sounds in infants with subsequent autism diagnosis
Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 793-801, 2022
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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 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 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 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
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
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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
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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 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
Part of Developmental Psychology, p. 4-12, 2017
Part of Medical Hypotheses, p. 64-66, 2017
How social is the chaser?: Neural correlates of chasing perception in 9-month-old infants
Part of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, p. 270-278, 2016
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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
Social perception: How do 6-month-old infants look at pointing gestures?
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 152-156, 2016
Altered gaze following during live interaction in infants at risk for autism: An eye tracking study
Part of Molecular Autism, 2016
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Infants' preference for individual agents within chasing interactions
Part of Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), p. 53-70, 2016
Hypersensitive pupillary light reflex in infants at risk for autism
Part of Molecular Autism, 2015
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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
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
Reorganization of Global Form and Motion Processing during Human Visual Development
Part of Current Biology, p. 411-415, 2010
Form and Motion VERPs in Adults and Infants
Part of Current Biology, p. 411-415, 2010
The infant mirror neuron system studied with high density EEG
Part of Social Neuroscience, p. 334-347, 2008
Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
Cortical processing of visual motion in young infants
Part of Vision Research, p. 1614-1623, 2007
Part of Medical Hypotheses
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
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
Part of 18Th Annual Conference Of The International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2017), Vols 1-6, p. 309-313, 2017
2015
Gaze Following in Infants at Risk for Autism: the Role of Eye Information and Head Turns
2015