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Julia Parish-Morris
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Director, Social Attention and Language (SoAL) Lab, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, CHOP
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Senior Principal Scientist, Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Co-Lead, Autism Bio-Scientists of the Future , Lurie Autism Institute of UPenn and CHOP
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Center for Autism Research
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24 92 Autism Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Autism Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2014-2016.
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Description of Research Expertise
5a7 Julia Parish-Morris, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Scientist at the Center for Autism Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Using techniques such as computational linguistics, immersive virtual reality, and infrared eye tracking, Dr. Parish-Morris' research program employs advanced technologies to explore the intersection of language and social cognition in children with neurodevelopmental conditions like autism, with a special focus on sex differences. Her long-term research goals are to identify the mechanisms that underlie real-world conversation challenges across the lifespan, chart relationships between these challenges and functional outcomes, inform individualized supports, and contribute to early identification efforts. Dr. Parish-Morris' research program has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Autism Science Foundation, MindCORE, the National Science Foundation, the Eagles Charitable Trust, and industry sponsors. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Presidential Fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Autism Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Psychological Association Dissertation Award, Alavi Dabiri Award, and an Award of Excellence from the Center for Autism Research.e 29
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141 Baer, M., Cola, M., Knox, A., Lyons, M., Schillinger, S., Lee, A., Worth, B., Parish-Morris, J., & Grossman, R. : In the Eye of the Beholder: Social First Impressions and Perceived Gender in Autistic and Neurotypical Youth. Scientific Reports 2025.
146 Zampella, C., Parish-Morris, J., Foy, J., Cola, M., Schultz, R.T., & Herrington, J.: “You should smile more”: Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice 2024.
17f Cho, S., Cola, M., Knox, A., Pelella, M.R., Russell, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Cieri, C., Liberman, M., Schultz, R., Parish-Morris, J.: Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of natural conversations with autistic children. Molecular Autism 14(1): 13, April 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-023-00545-6.
1d3 Dillon, E., Kanne, S., Landa, R., Annett, R., Bernier, R., Bradley, C.C., Carpenter, L.A., Kim, S., Parish-Morris, J. & Wodka, E.: Sex differences in autism: Examining intrinsic and extrinsic factors in children and adolescents enrolled in a national ASD cohort. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 53(4): 1305-1318, April 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05385-y. Epub 2021 Dec 2.
12a Harrop, C., Jones, D., Zheng, S., Nowell, S., Schultz, R.T., Parish-Morris, J.: Visual Attention to Faces: Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Molecular Autism 10: 28, June 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-019-0276-2.
153 Boorse, J., Cola, M., Plate, S., Yankowitz, L., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T., Parish-Morris, J.: Linguistic Markers of Autism in Girls: Evidence of a “Blended Phenotype” During Storytelling. Molecular Autism 10: 14, March 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-019-0268-2.
162 Parish-Morris, J., Liberman, M.Y., Cieri, C., Herrington, J., Yerys, B.E., Donaher, J., Bateman, L., Ferguson, E., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T.: Linguistic camouflage in girls with autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism 8: 48, September 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-017-0164-6.
18f Cola, M., Yankowitz, L.D., Tena, K., Russell, A., Bateman, L., Knox, A., Plate, S., Cubit, L.S., Zampella, C.J., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T., Parish-Morris, J.: Friend matters: Sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews. Molecular Autism 13(1): 5, January 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-021-00483-1.
180 Waller, R., Flum, M., Paz, Y., Perkins, E.R., Rodriguez, Y., Knox A., Pelella, M.R., Jones, C., Sun, S., Denham, S.A., Herrington J., Parish-Morris, J.: Objective Linguistic Markers Associated with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Page: 1-12, 2024.
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c8 Parish-Morris, J.: Viewing early diagnosis through a developmental lens – Autistic, yet still a girl. JAMA Network Open 2025.141 Baer, M., Cola, M., Knox, A., Lyons, M., Schillinger, S., Lee, A., Worth, B., Parish-Morris, J., & Grossman, R. : In the Eye of the Beholder: Social First Impressions and Perceived Gender in Autistic and Neurotypical Youth. Scientific Reports 2025.
146 Zampella, C., Parish-Morris, J., Foy, J., Cola, M., Schultz, R.T., & Herrington, J.: “You should smile more”: Population-level sex differences in smiling also exist in autistic people. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice 2024.
17f Cho, S., Cola, M., Knox, A., Pelella, M.R., Russell, A., Hauptmann, A., Covello, M., Cieri, C., Liberman, M., Schultz, R., Parish-Morris, J.: Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of natural conversations with autistic children. Molecular Autism 14(1): 13, April 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-023-00545-6.
1d3 Dillon, E., Kanne, S., Landa, R., Annett, R., Bernier, R., Bradley, C.C., Carpenter, L.A., Kim, S., Parish-Morris, J. & Wodka, E.: Sex differences in autism: Examining intrinsic and extrinsic factors in children and adolescents enrolled in a national ASD cohort. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 53(4): 1305-1318, April 2023 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-05385-y. Epub 2021 Dec 2.
12a Harrop, C., Jones, D., Zheng, S., Nowell, S., Schultz, R.T., Parish-Morris, J.: Visual Attention to Faces: Sex Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Molecular Autism 10: 28, June 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-019-0276-2.
153 Boorse, J., Cola, M., Plate, S., Yankowitz, L., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T., Parish-Morris, J.: Linguistic Markers of Autism in Girls: Evidence of a “Blended Phenotype” During Storytelling. Molecular Autism 10: 14, March 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-019-0268-2.
162 Parish-Morris, J., Liberman, M.Y., Cieri, C., Herrington, J., Yerys, B.E., Donaher, J., Bateman, L., Ferguson, E., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T.: Linguistic camouflage in girls with autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism 8: 48, September 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-017-0164-6.
18f Cola, M., Yankowitz, L.D., Tena, K., Russell, A., Bateman, L., Knox, A., Plate, S., Cubit, L.S., Zampella, C.J., Pandey, J., Schultz, R.T., Parish-Morris, J.: Friend matters: Sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews. Molecular Autism 13(1): 5, January 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13229-021-00483-1.
180 Waller, R., Flum, M., Paz, Y., Perkins, E.R., Rodriguez, Y., Knox A., Pelella, M.R., Jones, C., Sun, S., Denham, S.A., Herrington J., Parish-Morris, J.: Objective Linguistic Markers Associated with Callous-Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Page: 1-12, 2024.
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