Rhiannon Luyster

Biographic Data

ID796253
NAMERhiannon Luyster
GIVEN NAMESRhiannon
FAMILY NAMELuyster
SIGNATURELUYSTER R
AFFILIATIONSEmerson College
ORCID0000-0001-8311-4772
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Inquiry and innovation: Considering curiosity and creativity in autism

    Open AccessRhiannon Luyster, Kyle Greene-Pendelton et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026

    Curiosity and creativity are faculties that support innovation, achievement and emotional well-being. They are early-appearing and lifelong, serving a critical role in human development. In this paper, we suggest that these essential capabilities have been broadly overlooked in our understanding and description of development in autistic individuals. We critically evaluate two assumptions: that curiosity and creativity are (1) diminished and/or (…

  • Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (Rise): Scalable online replications of key findings in infant cognitive development

    Elena J Tenenbaum, Caitlin Stone et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2025

    The current article describes the Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning, a battery intended to provide robust looking time measures of cognitive development that can be administered remotely to inform our understanding of individual developmental trajectories in typical and atypical populations, particularly infant siblings of autistic children. This battery was developed to inform our understanding of early cognitive and language development i…

  • Consistency and Inconsistency in Caregiver Reporting of Vocabulary

    Sudha Arunachalam, Valeryia Avtushka et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning and Development2022

    Vocabulary checklists completed by caregivers are a common way of measuring children's vocabulary knowledge. We provide evidence from checklist data from 31 children with and without autism spectrum disorder. When asked to report twice about whether or not their child produces a particular word, caregivers are largely consistent in their responses, but where they are inconsistent, these inconsistencies affect verbs more than nouns. This differenc…

  • Moving beyond binaries: Appreciating the complexities of autism and language learning (Response to Kissine)

    Open AccessSudha Arunachalam, Jonet Artis et al.ARTICLELanguage2021

    We discuss three points relevant to Kissine's (2021) target article on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and its implications for theories of language acquisition. First, we argue that individuals with ASD do have social communication abilities and that these are linked to their language abilities; therefore, ASD does not provide evidence that language competence and language use are dissociable. Second, we argue that typically developing children s…

  • Personal pronoun errors in form versus meaning produced by children with and without autism spectrum disorder

    Open AccessEmily Zane, Sudha Arunachalam et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Cognitive…2021References: 82

  • Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs. low risk for autism spectrum disorder

    Open AccessAngela Xiaoxue He, Rhiannon Luyster et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2018

    Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to personal pronoun difficulties. This article investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley and McNally’s corpus of maternal speech to infants (3–19 months; N = 19) who are either at high or low risk for a diagnosis of ASD, the study asked whether mothers used fewer pronouns with high-risk infants.…

  • Greater Pupil Size in Response to Emotional Faces as an Early Marker of Social‐Communicative Difficulties in Infants at High Risk for Autism

    Open AccessJennifer B Wagner, Rhiannon Luyster et al.ARTICLEInfancy2016

    When scanning faces, individuals with autism spectrum disorder ( ASD ) have shown reduced visual attention (e.g., less time on eyes) and atypical autonomic responses (e.g., heightened arousal). To understand how these differences might explain subclinical variability in social functioning, 9‐month‐olds, with or without a family history of ASD , viewed emotionally expressive faces, and gaze and pupil diameter (a measure of autonomic activation) we…

  • Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R)

    Moira Lewis, Courtenay Norbury et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Autism Spectrum…2013

  • Word learning in children with autism spectrum disorders

    Rhiannon Luyster, Catherine LordARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2009Cited by: 2References: 8

    Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have been gaining attention, partly as an example of unusual developmental trajectories related to early neurobiological differences. The present investigation addressed the process of learning new words to explore mechanisms of language delay and impairment. The sample included 21 typically developing toddlers matched on expressive vocabulary with 21 young children with ASD. Two tasks were administered to teach ch…

  • Characterizing communicative development in children referred for Autism Spectrum Disorders using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI)

    Open AccessRhiannon Luyster, Kimberly Lopez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2007

    Characterizing early communicative development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is valuable for understanding profiles of ability in this population. The current investigation was modeled on Charman, Drew, Baird & Baird (2003 b ). Analyses explored parent report of early vocabulary, non-verbal communication, functional object use and play skills on the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) in 93 children with A…