Lab Presentations
Gasaway, T., Nguyen, D., Simard, E., Waddell, S., Li, C., Wyman, A., Fox, E., Clements, C.C (2026, April 30). Examining Race- and Sex-Based Biases in Autism Assessments of Youth 5-19 years. Poster Presented at the 2026 Youth Mental Health Summit, South Bend, IN.
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Mayer, A., Kuo, Y.C., Fox, E., McEllin, M., Clements, C.C (2026, April 30). The Reward Positivity in Very Young Children: A Doors Task Investigation. Poster Presented at the 2026 University of Notre Dame College of Science and Engineering Joint Annual Meeting (COSEJAM), Notre Dame, IN.
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Batz, A., McEllin, M., Fox, E., Villano, M., Clements, C.C. (2026, April 28). Measuring Effort in Preschoolers with a Novel Progressive Ratio Task. Poster Presented at the 2026 University of Notre Dame Psychology Honor Thesis Poster Session, Notre Dame, IN.
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McEllin, M., Batz, A., Fox, E., Villano, M., Clements, C.C. (2026, April 25). Measuring Effort in Early Childhood with a Novel Progressive Ratio Task. Poster presented at the 2026 International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Kuo, Y.C., Fox, E., McEllin, M., Clements, C.C (2026, April 25). The Reward Positivity in Early Childhood: Age, Feedback, and Trial-Level Dynamics in an Adapted Doors Task. Poster presented at the 2026 International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.
Wyman, A., Yu, Y., Li, C., Zhang, Z., & Clements, C. (2026, April 25). Sex Bias in the ADOS: A Multi-Module Comparison of Differential Item Functioning Among 23,000 Participants from NDAR, SSC, SPARK, and AIC. Poster presented at the 2026 International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.
Li, C., Wyman, A., Zhang, Z., Clements, C. (2026, April 25). Temporal Trends in ADOS Diagnostic Classifications over Two Decades. Symposium presented at the 2026 International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic.
Fox, E., Hu, Y., McEllin, M., Kuo, Y., Zheng, Z., Clements, C. (2026, April 10). Evaluating ePeekaboo: A Novel Eye Tracking Paradigm for Studying Anticipatory Behavior in Preschool-Aged Children. Poster presented at the 2026 Purdue Autism Research Conference, West Lafayette, IN.
Kuo, Y.C., McEllin, M., Clements, C.C. (2025, September 8). Developmental Differences in Reward Processing: Investigating the Reward Positivity ERP in an Adapted Doors Task. Poster presented at the 2025 FIT'NG Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Batz, A., & Mayer, A., Fox, E., McEllin, M., Kaste, J., Savino, J., Villano, M., Clements, C. (2025, July 23). Preschoolers with Greater Temperamental Surgency Show Larger Increase in Effort when Caregiver Provides Encouragement. Poster presented at the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Notre Dame, IN.
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McEllin, M., Savino, J., Villano, M., Kaste, J., Agurcia, S., Kuo, Y.C., Clements, C.C. (2025, May 3). Measuring Effort with a Progressive Ratio Task to Activate Music and Bubbles in Early Childhood. Poster presented at the technology demonstration at the 2025 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Seattle, WA.
Wyman, A., Yu, Y.Y., Zhang, Z., Herrington, J., Yerys, B.E., Clements, C.C. (2025, May 3). Racial Bias in the ADOS: Comparison of DIF and MNLFA Among More Than 11,000 Participants from NDAR and SSC. Poster presented at the behavioral and intellectual assessment at the 2025 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Seattle, WA.
Yu, Z., McEllin, M., Kong, N., Kuo, Y.C., Zheng, Z., Clements, C.C. (2025, May 2). ePeekaboo: A Novel Eye-Tracking Paradigm to Track the Development of Contingency Learning and Anticipation. Poster presented at the social cognition and behavior at the 2025 International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Seattle WA.
Kuo., Y.C., McEllin, M., Wilkinson, C.L., Enlow, M.B., Tager-Flusberg, H., Nelson, C.A., Clements, C.C. (2025, May 1). Developing an Infant Reward Processing Scale from the Infant Behavior Questionnaire- Revised Short Form. Poster presented at the early development at the 2025 International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR) Annual Meeting, Seattle WA.
Agurcia, S., Mayer, A., Savino, J., Palacios, X., Clements, C.C (2025, February). Why is the prevalance of autism increasing? Poster presentation at the Neuroscience Impact Summit, South Bend, IN, United States.
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Kaste, J., Foster, B., Wade, E., Abeyesundere, N., Clements, C.C (2025, February). Why do people think vaccines cause autism? Poster presentation at the Neuroscience Impact Summit, South Bend, IN, United States.
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Savino, J., McEllin, M., Kaste, J., Clements, C.C (2024, July 24). Pressing Matters: Using the novel paradigm “PressMORE” to evaluate social motivation in preschoolers. Poster presentation at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Notre Dame, IN, United States
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McEllin, M., Obiajulu, D., Holt, G, Clements, C.C. (2024, November 15). A novel progressive ratio task to extend the study of effort to infants and improve autism interventions. Abstract submitted to the Convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Yu, Y., Faulk, C., Fulop, L., Benecke, R., Steinbeck, L., Greenberg, R., Foy, J., Kim, C., Emory, G., Storch, E., Zampella, C., Yerys, B., Schultz, R., Parish-Morris, J., Herrington, J., Clements, C.C., An Item Response Theory Examination of Sex Bias in the ADOS-2 Module 3 Algorithm Items. Poster presented at the 23 rd Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR). Melbourne, Australia.
Yu, Y., Faulk, C., Fulop, L., Benecke, R., Steinbeck, L., Greenberg, R., Foy, J., Kim, C., Emory, G., Storch, E., Zampella, C., Yerys, B., Schultz, R., Parish-Morris, J., Herrington, J., Clements, C.C., Differential Functioning of ADOS-2 Module 3 Items by Race. Poster presented at the 23 rd Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR). Melbourne, Australia.
Clements, C.C., Obiajulu, D., Nimblette, M., Krystkowiak, S., Nelson, C.A. (2023). A new passive experimental paradigm to assess anticipation and response to reward using Event- Related Potentials (ERPs) in infants and toddlers (pre-registered report). Poster presented at the 2 nd Annual Conference of the Fetal, Infant, Toddler Neuroimaging Group (FIT’NG). Santa Rosa, California.
Engelstad, A.M., Clements, C.C., Hyde, C, Said, A.J., Wilkinson, C., Tager-Flusberg, H., Jeste, S., Nelson, C.A. (2023). Characterizing the resting state in toddlers with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. In Clements [chair], Resting State EEG in Autism and Related Genetic Syndromes [Symposium]. 22 nd Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (INSAR).
Stockholm, Sweden.
Clements, CC, Ascunce, K, Nelson, CA. (2023). The Developmental Six-Component Model of Reward Processing: a reconceptualization & literature review of typical and autistic development. Poster presented at the 22 nd Annual Meeting of International Society for Autism Research (INSAR). Stockholm, Sweden