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Vinod Menon, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Professor and Director of Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Stanford University

Publications

Neural decoding of emotional prosody in voice-sensitive auditory cortex predicts social communication abilities in children.

Cereb. Cortex, January 5, 2023

Leipold S., Abrams D.A., Karraker S., and V. Menon

Mothers adapt their voice during children’s adolescent development.

Sci. Rep., January 17, 2022

Leipold S., Abrams D.A., and V. Menon

mTOR-related synaptic pathology causes autism spectrum disorder-associated functional hyperconnectivity.

Nat. Commun., October 17, 2021

Pagani M., Barsotti N., Bertero A., Trakoshis S., Ulysse L., Locarno A., et al.

Impaired voice processing in reward and salience circuits predicts social communication in children with autism.

Elife, February 25, 2019

Abrams D.A., Padmanabhan A., Chen T., Odriozola P., Baker A.E., Kochalka J., et al.

Projects

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Decoding affective prosody and communication circuits in autism

Awarded 2014

Featuring Vinod Menon

Decoding of Emotional Vocal Cues by the Auditory Cortex Correlates With Social Communication Abilities in Children

Image of Dora Angelaki (New York University) presented her research on multisensory integration in autism

SFARI Fall 2018 Science Meeting Highlighted Recent Findings in Autism Research

Brain image with highlighted vmPFC region, labeled Mesolimbic Reward. Scatter plot shows ADOS Social vs. Mother-Unfamiliar β, with Cohens f = 0.73. Text x = 8 appears below brain graphic.

Impaired Reward Circuitry During Voice Processing Predicts Social Communication Abilities in Autism

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