| Do both pictures and words function as symbols for 18-and 24-month-old children? M Allen Preissler, S Carey Journal of cognition and development 5 (2), 185-212, 2004 | 245 | 2004 |
| The role of inferences about referential intent in word learning: Evidence from autism MA Preissler, S Carey Cognition 97 (1), B13-B23, 2005 | 204 | 2005 |
| Toddlers’ referential understanding of pictures PA Ganea, ML Allen, L Butler, S Carey, JS DeLoache Journal of experimental child psychology 104 (3), 283-295, 2009 | 154 | 2009 |
| Associative learning of pictures and words by low-functioning children with autism MA Preissler Autism 12 (3), 231-248, 2008 | 124 | 2008 |
| Two-year-olds use artist intention to understand drawings MA Preissler, P Bloom Cognition 106 (1), 512-518, 2008 | 117 | 2008 |
| iPads and the use of “apps” by children with autism spectrum disorder: Do they promote learning? ML Allen, C Hartley, K Cain Frontiers in psychology 7, 209377, 2016 | 108 | 2016 |
| Evidence for syntactic alignment in children with autism ML Allen, S Haywood, G Rajendran, H Branigan Developmental science 14 (3), 540-548, 2011 | 86 | 2011 |
| Brief report: Generalisation of word–picture relations in children with autism and typically developing children C Hartley, ML Allen Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 44, 2064-2071, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| Landscape resistance to movement of the poison frog, Oophaga pumilio, in the lowlands of northeastern Costa Rica AJ Nowakowski, B Otero Jiménez, M Allen, M Diaz‐Escobar, MA Donnelly Animal Conservation 16 (2), 188-197, 2013 | 64 | 2013 |
| Symbolic understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with autism: The effects of iconicity and naming C Hartley, ML Allen Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 45, 15-30, 2015 | 63 | 2015 |
| Two-year-olds appreciate the dual nature of pictures MA Preissler, P Bloom Psychological Science 18 (1), 1, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| The specificity of inhibitory impairments in autism and their relation to ADHD-type symptoms C Sanderson, ML Allen Journal of autism and developmental disorders 43, 1065-1079, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Do iPads promote symbolic understanding and word learning in children with autism? ML Allen, C Hartley, K Cain Frontiers in psychology 6, 125399, 2015 | 51 | 2015 |
| Intentions vs. resemblance: Understanding pictures in typical development and autism C Hartley, ML Allen Cognition 131 (1), 44-59, 2014 | 45 | 2014 |
| Brief report: decoding representations: how children with autism understand drawings ML Allen Journal of autism and developmental disorders 39, 539-543, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| Play and autism: Facilitating symbolic understanding MA Preissler Play= learning: How play motivates and enhances children’s cognitive and …, 2006 | 36 | 2006 |
| Iconicity influences how effectively minimally verbal children with autism and ability-matched typically developing children use pictures as symbols in a search task C Hartley, ML Allen Autism 19 (5), 570-579, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Semantic fields in low-functioning autism K Boser, S Higgins, A Fetherston, MA Preissler, B Gordon Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 32, 563-582, 2002 | 30 | 2002 |
| Implicit and explicit understanding of ambiguous figures by adolescents with autism spectrum disorder ML Allen, A Chambers Autism 15 (4), 457-472, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Children’s picture interpretation: Appearance or intention? E Armitage, ML Allen Developmental psychology 51 (9), 1201, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
