Publications

For stimuli and scripts, see GitHub. For data, preprints, and preregistrations, see OSF.

For those who are interested in the role of colour on causing and alleviating discomfort, check out this webinar.

2024

• Thomas J Hostler, Giulia L. Poerio, Clau Nader, Safiyya Mank, Andrew C. Lin, Mario Villena-González, Lemera ASMR, Sharon Shares ASMR, Yoloma ASMR, Moongem ASMR, Nate Plutzik, Nitin K. Ahuja, Daniel H. Baker, Scott Bannister, Emma L Barratt, Stacey A. Bedwell, Pierre-Edouard Billot, Emma Blakey, Flavia Cardini, Daniella K. Cash, Nick J. Davis, Bleiz M. Del Sette, Mercede Erfanian, Josephine R. Flockton, Beverley Fredborg, Helge Gillmeister, Emma Gray, Sarah M. Haigh, Laura L. Heisick, Agnieszka Janik McErlean, Helle Breth Klausen, Hirohito M. Kondo, Franzisca Maas, L. Taylor Maurand, Lawrie S. McKay, Marco Mozzoni, Gabriele Navyte, Jessica A. Ortega-Balderas, Emma C. Palmer-Cooper, Craig A. H. Richard, Natalie Roberts, Vincenzo Romei, Felix Schoeller, Steven D. Shaw, Julia Simner, Stephen D. Smith, Eva Specker, Angelica Succi, Niilo V. Valtakari, Jennie Weinheimer, Jasper Zehetgruber (2024). Research Priorities for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response: An Interdisciplinary Delphi Study. Multisensory Research. (Available online here.)

• Caitlin A Laycox, Rory Thompson, Jasmine A Haggerty, Arnold J Wilkins & Sarah M Haigh (2024). Flicker Slows Reading Speed: Effects on Individuals with Visually Sensitivity. Perception. 53(8), 512-528. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066241252066. Early access here.

• Wendy A Torrens, Jenna N Pablo, Marian E Berryhill, & Sarah M Haigh (2024). Pattern glare sensitivity distinguishes subclinical autism and schizotypy. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 29(3), 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2024.2335103. Early access here.

2023

• Sarah M Haigh, Anna M Haugland, Lourdes M Mendoza, & Mackenzie Montero (2023). Auditory discomfort in visually sensitive individuals. Frontiers in Psychology. 14, 1126481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1126481. Preprint available: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/uydfm

• Olivier Penacchio, Xavier Otazu, Arnold J Wilkins, & Sarah M Haigh (2023). A mechanistic account of visual discomfort. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Perception Science, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200661

• Sarah Haigh†, Marian Berryhill†, Alexandrea Kilgore-Gomez, & Michael Dodd (2023).Working Memory and Sensory Memory in Subclinical High Schizotypy: An Avenue for Understanding Schizophrenia? († co-first authors). European Journal of Neuroscience, 57, 1577-1596. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15961 Preprint: 10.22541/au.166618485.56676057/v1

2022

• Wendy A Torrens†, Jenna N Pablo†, Jorja Shires, Sarah M Haigh & Marian E Berryhill (2022). People with High Schizotypy Experience More Illusions in the Pattern Glare Test: Consistent with the Hyperexcitability Hypothesis († co-first authors). European Journal of Neuroscience, 1–12 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15886 Preprint (10.22541/au.166817986.63141633/v1)

• Sarah M Haigh, Laura Van Key, Pat Brosseau, Shaun M Eack, David I Leitman, Dean F Salisbury & Marlene Behrmann (2022). Assessing Trial-to-Trial Variability inAuditory ERPs in Autism and Schizophrenia. S.I.: Developmental Approach andTargeted Treatment of Sensory Alterations. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05771-0

• Sarah M Haigh, Pat Brosseau, Shaun M Eack, David I Leitman, Dean F Salisbury, & Marlene Behrmann (2022). Hyper-sensitivity to pitch and poorer prosodyprocessing in adults with autism: an ERP study. Frontiers in Psychiatry: Autism. 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.844830

2021

• Olivier Penacchio, Sarah M Haigh, Xortia Ross, Rebecca Ferguson, & Arnold JWilkins (2021). Local differences in chromaticity and visual discomfort from natural scenes and worked of art. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Perception Science. 15, 1706. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.711064

• Sarah M Haigh, Tabatha P Walford, & Patricia Brosseau (2021). Heart rate variability in schizophrenia and autism. Frontiers in Psychiatry: Schizophrenia. 12, 2129. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.760396

• Marena S Manierka, Rachel Rezaei, Samantha Palacios, Sarah M Haigh, Jeffrey J Hutsler (2021). In the mood to be social: affective state influences facial emotionrecognition in healthy adults. Emotion. 21(7), 1576-1581. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000999

• Arnold J Wilkins, Sarah M Haigh, Omar A Mahroo & Gordon T Plant (2021).Photophobia in migraine: a symptom cluster? Cephalalgia.41(11-12), 1240-1248. https://doi.org/10.1177/03331024211014633

• Alireza Charmanzar†, Sarah M Haigh†, Pulkit Grover & Marlene Behrmann (2021). Abnormalities in cortical pattern of coherence in interictal migraine using ultrahigh-density EEG (†Joint first authors). Brain Communications. 3(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab061

• Lisa C Lindquist, Gregory R McIntire & Sarah M Haigh (2021). The effects of visualdiscomfort and chromaticity separation on neural processing during a visual task. Vision Research. 182, 27-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.01.007

2020

• Sarah M Haigh, Yaara Endevelt-Shapira & Marlene Behrmann (2020). Trial-to-trial variability in electrodermal activity to odor in autism. Autism Research. 13(12), 2083-2093. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2377

• Timothy K Murphy, Sarah M Haigh, Brian A Coffman, & Dean F. Salisbury (2020). Mismatch Negativity and Impaired Social Functioning in First EpisodeSchizophrenia Spectrum Psychosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11, 544. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00544

• Dean F Salisbury, Brian A Coffman & Sarah M Haigh (2020). Reductions in Complex Mismatch Negativity to Extra Tone Gestalt Pattern Deviance in First-Episode Schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11, 505. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00505

• Sarah M Haigh, Timothy A Keller, Nancy J Minshew & Shaun M Eack (2020). Reduced white matter integrity and deficits in neuropsychological functioning inadults with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research. 13(5), 702-714. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2271

• Dean F Salisbury, Anna R Shafer, Timothy K Murphy, Sarah M Haigh, & Brian A Coffman (2020). Pitch and duration mismatch negativity and Heschel’s gyrus volume in first-episode schizophrenia-spectrum individuals. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience. 51(6), 359-364. https://doi.org/10.1177/1550059420914214

2019

• Sarah M Haigh, Shaun M Eack, Timothy Keller, Nancy J Minshew & Marlene Behrmann (2019). White Matter Integrity in Schizophrenia and Autism: Abnormal Diffusion Across the Brain in Schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia. 135, 107233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107233

• Sarah M Haigh, Alireza Chamanzar, Pulkit Grover & Marlene Behrmann (2019). Cortical Hyper-Excitability in Migraine in Response to Chromatic Patterns. Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 59, 1773-1787. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.13620

• Sarah M Haigh, Rebecca M Laher, Timothy K Murphy, Brian A Coffman, Kayla L Ward, Justin R Leiter-McBeth, Lori L Holt & Dean F Salisbury (2019). Normal categorical perception to syllable-like stimuli in long-term and in first episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 208, 124-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2019.03.028

• Dorothy Sit & Sarah M Haigh (2019). Use of “Lights” for Bipolar Depression. Current Psychiatry Reports. 21, 45-61. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-019-1025-0

• Sarah M Haigh, Brian A Coffman, Timothy K Murphy, Christiana D Butera, Justin Leiter-McBeth & Dean F Salisbury (2019). Reduced late mismatch negativity and auditory sustained potential to rule-based patterns in schizophrenia. European Journal of Neuroscience. 49, 249-289. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14274

2018

• Sarah M Haigh†, Amanda K Robinson†, Pulkit Grover & Marlene Behrmann (2018). Differentiation of types of visual agnosia using EEG (†Joint first authors). Special Issue of Vision: Visual Perception and Its Neural Mechanisms. 2(4), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision2040044

• Sarah M Haigh, Jennifer A Walsh, Carla Mazefsky, Nancy J Minshew & Shaun M Eack (2018). Processing speed is impaired in adults with autism spectrum disorder, and relates to social communication abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 48(8), 2653-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3515-z

• Sarah M Haigh, Nicholas R Cooper, Arnold J Wilkins (2018). Chromaticity separation and the alpha response. Neuropsychologia. 108, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.020

• Dean F Salisbury, Alexis G McCathern, Brian A Coffman, Timothy K Murphy, Kayla L Ward & Sarah M Haigh (2018). Complex mismatch negativity to tone pair deviants in long-term schizophrenia and in the first-episode schizophrenia spectrum. Invited paper for Schizophrenia Research: Mismatch Negativity in Schizophrenia Special Issue. 191, 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.04.044

• Sarah M Haigh (2018). Special issue: the neurological bases of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Variable sensory perception in autism. European Journal ofNeuroscience. 47(6), 602-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13601

• Brian A Coffman, Sarah M Haigh, Timothy K Murphy, Justin Leiter-McBeth, & Dean F Salisbury (2018). Reduced auditory segmentation potentials in first-episode schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 195, 421-427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.10.011

2017

• Sarah M Haigh, Mario DeMatties, Brian A Coffman, Timothy K Murphy, Christiana D Butera, Kayla L Ward, Justin R Leiter-McBeth & Dean F Salisbury (2017). Mismatch negativity to pitch pattern deviants in schizophrenia. European Journal of Neuroscience, 46(6), 2229-2239. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13660

• Brian A Coffman, Sarah M Haigh, Timothy K Murphy, Dean F Salisbury (2017).Impairment in mismatch negativity but not repetition suppression in schizophrenia. Brain Topography. 30, 521-539. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-017-0571-1

• Dean F Salisbury, Nicola R Polizzotto, Paul G Nestor, Sarah M Haigh, Justine Koehler, & Robert W McCarley. (2017). Pitch and duration MMN are not reduced inhigh functioning first hospitalized schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 43(2), 407-416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.04.044

• Sarah M Haigh, Brian A Coffman. & Dean F Salisbury (2017). Mismatch negativityin first-episode schizophrenia: a meta-analysis. Clinical EEG and Neuroscience. 48(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-017-0571-1

2016

• Sarah M Haigh, Brian A Coffman, Timothy K Murphy, Christiana D Butera & Dean F Salisbury (2016). Abnormal auditory pattern perception in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 176, 473-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.07.007

• Sarah M Haigh, Akshat Gupta, Shaun M Eack, Scott M Barb, Summer A F Glass, Nancy J Minshew, Ilan Dinstein, David J Heeger & Marlene Behrmann (2016). Differential sensory fMRI signatures in autism and schizophrenia: analysis ofamplitude and trial-to-trial variability. Schizophrenia Research. 175, 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.03.036

• Brian A Coffman, Sarah M Haigh, Timothy K Murphy & Dean F Salisbury (2016).Event-related potentials demonstrate deficits in acoustic segmentation in schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research. 173, 109-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2016.03.012

• Sarah M Haigh, David J Heeger, Laurie M Heller, Akshat Gupta, Nancy J Minshew,& Marlene Behrmann (2016). No difference in attention-switching or sensory discrimination thresholds in autism and matched controls. Vision Research. 121, 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2016.02.001

2015

• Sarah M Haigh, Nancy J Minshew, David J Heeger, Ilan Dinstein & MarleneBehrmann (2015). Over responsiveness and greater variability in roughness perception in autism. Autism Research. 9, 393-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1505

• Sarah M Haigh, Nicholas R Cooper & Arnold J Wilkins (2015). Cortical excitability and the shape of the haemodynamic response. Neuroimage, 111, 379-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.034

2014

• Sarah M Haigh, David J Heeger, Ilan Dinstein, Nancy J Minshew, & MarleneBehrmann (2014). Cortical variability in the sensory-evoked response in Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 45(5), 1176-1190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2276-6

2013

• Sarah M Haigh, Laura Barningham, Monica Berntsen, Louise V Coutts, Emily S T Hobbs, Jennifer Irabor, Eleanor M Lever, Peter Tang, & Arnold J Wilkins. (2013).Discomfort and the cortical haemodynamic response to coloured gratings. Vision Research, 89(30), 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2013.07.003

• Sarah M Haigh, Wolfgang Jaschinski, Peter M Allen, & Arnold J Wilkins (2013).Accommodation to uncomfortable patterns. Perception, 42(2), 208-222. https://doi.org/10.1068/p7397

2012

Sarah M Haigh, Olivera Karanovic, Frances Wilkinson & Arnold J Wilkins (2012).Cortical hyperexcitability in migraine and aversion to patterns. Cephalalgia, 32(3),236-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102411433301

2011

• Sarah M Haigh (2011). Haigh on Purves: Brains: How they seem to work. Perception, 40 (4), 507-508. doi:10.1068/p4004rvw

Book Chapter

• David I Leitman & Sarah M Haigh (2018). Impairments in the Decoding Vocal Emotion in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder. In P. Belin and S. Fruehholz (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception. Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743187.013.37

Special Thanks to Our Funders

National Institute of Mental Health (R15 MH122935)

Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research to Jenna Pablo and Wendy Torrens (MH122935-01S1; MH122935-01S2).

Pilot grant through National Institute of General Medical Sciences - COBRE (PG20 GM103650)

NSF EPSCoR (1632849)

Brain and Behavior Research Foundation - NARSAD Young Investigator Award (26282)