NONFICTION

• ESSAYS
  1. Matthew Belmonte. Human, but More So: What the Autistic Brain Tells Us about the Process of Narrative. In: Autism and Representation (Mark Osteen, ed.), pp 166-179. New York: Routledge, 23 November 2007.

  2. Matthew Belmonte. The Yellow Raincoat. In: Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Sherry Turkle, ed.), pp 70-75. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 30 June 2007.

• RESEARCH REPORTS
  1. Matthew Belmonte, Marie Gomot, Simon Baron-Cohen. Visual Attention in Autism: ‘Unaffected’ Sibs Share Delayed and Prolonged Fronto-Cerebellar Activation but not Decreased Functional Connectivity. Submitted.

  2. Marie Gomot, Matthew Belmonte, Ed Bullmore, Frédéric Bernard, Simon Baron-Cohen. Brain Hyper-Reactivity to Auditory Novel Targe ts in Children with High-Functioning Autism. Brain, in press.

  3. Yoram Bonneh, Matthew Belmonte, Francesca Pei, Portia Iversen, Tal Kenet, Natacha Akshoomoff, Yael Adini, Helen Simon, Chris Moore, John Houde, Mike Merzenich. Cross-Modal Extinction in a Boy with Severely Autistic Behaviour and High Verbal Intelligence. Cognitive Neuropsychology, in press.

  4. Jonathan Butler, Iain MacCallum, Michael Kleber, Ilya Shlyakhter, Matthew Belmonte, Eric Lander, Chad Nusbaum, David Jaffe. ALLPATHS: de novo Assembly of Whole-Genome Shotgun Microreads. Genome Research 18(5):810-820 (May 2008).

  5. Matthew Belmonte, Ruth Carper. Monozygotic Twins with Asperger Syndrome: Differences in Behaviour Reflect Variations in Brain Structure and Function. Brain and Cognition 61(1):110-121 (June 2006).

  6. Marie Gomot, Frédéric Bernard, Matt Davis, Matthew Belmonte, Chris Ashwin, Ed Bullmore. Change Detection in Children with Autism: An Auditory Event-Related fMRI Study. NeuroImage 29(2):475-484 (January 2006).

  7. Geoff Schmidt, Matthew Belmonte. Scalable, Content-Based Audio Identification by Multiple Independent Psychoacoustic Matching. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 52(4):366-377 (April 2004).

  8. Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd. Functional Anatomy of Impaired Selective Attention and Compensatory Processing in Autism. Cognitive Brain Research 17(3):651-664 (October 2003).

  9. Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd. Anatomic Dissociation of Selective and Suppressive Processes in Visual Attention. NeuroImage 19(1):180-189 (May 2003).

  10. Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd. Permutation Testing Made Practical for Functional Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 20(3):243-248 (March 2001).

  11. Matthew Belmonte. Abnormal Attention in Autism Shown by Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials. Autism 4(3):269-285 (September 2000).

  12. Matthew Belmonte. Shifts of Visual Spatial Attention Modulate a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential. Cognitive Brain Research 6(4):295-307 (April 1998).

  13. Matthew Belmonte, Brian Egaas, Jeanne Townsend, Eric Courchesne. NMR Intensity of Corpus Callosum Differs with Age but not with Diagnosis of Autism. NeuroReport 6(9):1253-1256 (19 June 1995).

• RESEARCH REVIEWS

  1. Matthew Belmonte. Neurobiology of Narrative. In: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (P Hogan, ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008).

  2. Simon Baron-Cohen, Ofer Golan, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Matthew Belmonte. Social Cognition and Autism Spectrum Conditions. In: Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology (C Sharp, P Fonagy, I Goodyer, eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press (August 2008).

  3. Matthew Belmonte. The ‘Mechanism’ of Human Cognitive Variation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31(3):263-264 (June 2008).

  4. Matthew Belmonte. Does the Experimental Scientist Have a ‘Theory of Mind’? Review of General Psychology 12(2):192-204 (June 2008).

  5. Matthew Belmonte, John Mazziotta, Nancy Minshew, Alan Evans, Eric Courchesne, Steve Dager, Susan Bookheimer, Elizabeth Aylward, David Amaral, Rita Cantor, Diane Chugani, Anders Dale, Christos Davatzikos, Guido Gerig, Martha Herbert, Janet Lainhart, Declan Murphy, Joe Piven, Allan Reiss, Bob Schultz, Tom Zeffiro, Susan Levi-Pearl, Clara Lajonchere, Sophia Colamarino. Offering to Share: How to Put Heads Together in Autism Neuroimaging. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 38(1):2-13 (January 2008).

  6. Matthew Belmonte, Thomas Bourgeron. Fragile X Syndrome and Autism at the Intersection of Genetic and Neural Networks. Nature Neuroscience 9(10):1221-1225 (October 2006).

  7. Matthew Belmonte. Abnormal Visual Motion Processing as a Neural Endophenotype of Autism. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive / Current Psychology of Cognition 23(1-2):65-74 (2005).

  8. Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Knickmeyer, Matthew Belmonte. Sex Differences in the Brain: Implications for Explaining Autism. Science 310(5749):819-823 (4 November 2005).
     Comment in Science 311(5763):952 (17 February 2006).

  9. Simon Baron-Cohen, Matthew Belmonte. Autism: A Window onto the Development of the Social and the Analytic Brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience 28:109-126 (2005).

  10. Matthew Belmonte, Greg Allen, Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, Lisa Boulanger, Ruth Carper, Sara Webb. Autism and Abnormal Development of Brain Connectivity. Journal of Neuroscience 24(42):9228-9231 (20 October 2004).

  11. Matthew Belmonte, Ed Cook, George Anderson, John Rubenstein, William Greenough, Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, Eric Courchesne, Lisa Boulanger, Susan Powell, Pat Levitt, Elaine Perry, Yong-hui Jiang, Timothy DeLorey, Elaine Tierney. Autism as a Disorder of Neural Information Processing: Directions for Research and Targets for Therapy, Molecular Psychiatry 9(7):646-663 (July 2004).

  12. Matthew Belmonte, Ruth Carper. Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Clues to the Nature of Autism. In: Neuroimaging in Child Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Bernard Garreau, ed.). Paris: Springer-Verlag, 1998.

• TECHNICAL REPORTS
  • Matthew Belmonte. Prediction of Attention in Autism from Single-Trial EEG Using Artificial Neural Networks. Association for Computing Machinery SIGBIO Newsletter 17(2):2-15 (August 1997).

  • Matthew Belmonte. A Software System for Analysis of Steady-State Evoked Potentials. Association for Computing Machinery SIGBIO Newsletter 17(1):9-14 (April 1997).

  • Matthew Belmonte. A Practical Attribute Grammar Circularity Test. Cornell University Department of Computer Science Technical Report 88-920 (June 1988).

• BOOKS
  • Computer Science, and Why: Science, Language, and Literature (1989). Unionville, New York: Trillium Press, 1993. An introduction to basic theoretical computer science, along with discussions of the underlying philosophical notions and their appearances in history and literature. The thesis that science and literature are two facets of the same fascination: creation within the system of a language, a culture, a formal specification; the game of symbols and encodings.

• ABSTRACTS
  • Matthew Belmonte, `A New Way to Study and to Treat Autism Spectrum Conditions: Video Games for Ecologically Valid Measurement and Therapy', International Meeting for Autism Research, London, 15-17 May 2008.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Marie Gomot, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Visual Attention in Autism Families: "Unaffected" Sibs Share Atypical Frontal Activation but not Atypical Functional Connectivity', Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, 3-7 November 2007.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Marie Gomot, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Who in a Susceptible Family Develops Autism? A Question of Functional Connectivity', International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, 3-5 May 2007.

  • Matthew Belmonte, `Does the Experimental Scientist Have a "Theory of Mind"?', From the Brain to Human Culture, Bucknell University, 20-22 April 2007.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Marie Gomot, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Hypoactivation and Hypoconnectivity of Integrative Brain Regions in a Non-Social Attention Task in Autism-Spectrum Boys and their Normal Brothers', International Meeting for Autism Research, Montréal, 1-3 June 2006.

  • Marie Gomot, Frederic Bernard, Matthew Belmonte, Ed Bullmore, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Brain Activation Associated with Novelty Detection in Autism: An fMRI Study', Organization for Human Brain Mapping 12^th annual meeting, Firenze, 11-15 June 2006.

  • Marie Gomot, Frederic Bernard, Matt Davis, Matthew Belmonte, Chris Ashwin, Edward Bullmore, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Automatic Auditory Change Detection in Children with Autism: An Event-Related fMRI Study', 4^th Conference on Mismatch Negativity and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Cambridge, 22-26 April 2006.

  • Matthew Belmonte, `Autism and the Narrative Organisation of Perceptual and Cognitive Experience', Literature and the Cognitive Sciences, Storrs, Connecticut, 6-9 April 2006.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Human, but More So: What the Autistic Brain Tells Us about the Process of Narrative', Autism and Representation: Writing, Cognition, Disability (Society for Critical Exchange), Cleveland, 28-30 October 2005.

  • Matthew Belmonte, `Brain Connectivity and Narrative Coherence in Autism', Autism Cymru (Cardiff), 17-21 October 2005.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Normal Sibs of Children with Autism Share Negative Frontal but not Positive Sensory Abnormalities: Preliminary Evidence from fMRI during Processing of Visual Distractors', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 30 (2004).

  • Matthew Belmonte [chair], Greg Allen, Sara Jane Webb, Ruth Carper, Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, Lisa Boulanger, `Autism and Abnormal Development of Brain Connectivity: Functional Consequences and Possible Neural Antecedents', Society for Neuroscience mini-symposium, San Diego, October 2004.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Small-world Network Properties and the Emergence of Social Cognition: Evidence from Functional Studies of Autism', 3rd International Conference on Development and Learning: Developing Social Brains, San Diego, October 2004.

  • Marie Gomot, Matthew Belmonte, Simon Baron-Cohen, `Auditory Change Detection in Autism: an fMRI Study', International Meeting for Autism Research, Sacramento, May 2004.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Simon Baron-Cohen, `fMRI of Event-Related Response to Visual Distractors in Autism', International Meeting for Autism Research, Sacramento, May 2004.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, `Functional Anatomy of Compensatory Processing in Autistic Attention: Complementary Roles of Selection and Suppression', International Meeting for Autism Research, Orlando, November 2002.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, `Enhancement and Suppression during Shifting of Visual Spatial Attention: An fMRI Study of Normal and Autistic Responses', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 27 (2001).

  • Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, `fMRI Evidence for Generalised Arousal as a Substitute for Early Selection in Autism during Conditions of Shifting Visual Spatial Attention', International Meeting for Autism Research, San Diego, November 2001.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, `An Optimised Permutation Test for fMRI Analysis', International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Glasgow, April 2001.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, `An Optimised Permutation Test for fMRI Analysis', fMRI Experience III, King's College London, April 2001.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, `Posterior Cortical Activation in Directed Attention: An fMRI Study', Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, 2001.

  • Matthew Belmonte, `Physiological Evidence for Loss of Fine Attentional Control in Autism', Sixth Autism-Europe Congress, Glasgow, May 2000.

  • Matthew Belmonte, Kurt Thoroughman, `Neuroscience for High-Ability Secondary School Students', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23:280 (1997).

  • Matthew Belmonte, `Abnormal Attention in Autism Demonstrated by Lack of Modulation of a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential', Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, 1997.

  • Matthew Belmonte, `Modulation of a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential by Shifts of Visual Spatial Attention in Normal Subjects and in People with Autism', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22:433 (1996).

  • Matthew Belmonte, Eric Courchesne, `Shifts of Visual Spatial Attention Modulate a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential', Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, 1996.

  • Jaime A Pineda, Kathy Shafer, Matthew Belmonte, `Noradrenergic Modulation of Auditory and Visual P300 in Parietal-Temporal Cortex', Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19:1607 (1993).

FICTION

• Full Abstraction (1990). Ithaca, New York: Pathos Press, 1992. A novel of determinism, entropy, and abstraction.
• `Europe by Train', The Risley Revue (Ithaca, New York: Pathos Press), May 1991.
• `Tales of a Modern Knight', Visions (Ithaca, New York: Visions Magazine, Inc.), spring 1990.
• `Upon This Bank and Shoal of Time', Praxis (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University), fall 1989.
• `Life Trip', Visions, spring 1988.

REVIEWS

• Steven Pinker / Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
  The Boston Book Review, November 1999.
• Howard I Kushner / A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome
  The Washington Times, Sunday 13 June 1999, page B8.
• Thomas F Gieryn / Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line
  The Boston Book Review 6(2), March 1999, page 19.
• François Jacob / Of Flies, Mice and Men
  The Boston Book Review 6(1), January-February 1999, page 15.
• Frank R Wilson / The Hand
  The Washington Times, Sunday 20 September 1998, page B7.
• Jonathan Lear / Open Minded
  The Washington Times, Sunday 9 August 1998, page B8.
• Steven Pinker / How the Mind Works
  The Washington Times, Sunday 9 November 1997, page B8.
• Marc Flitter / Judith's Pavilion
  The Washington Times, Sunday 6 April 1997, page B8.
• Oliver Sacks / The Island of the Colorblind
  The Washington Times, Sunday 16 February 1997, page B8.
• Joe LeDoux / The Emotional Brain
  The Washington Times, Sunday 1 December 1996, page B8.
• Temple Grandin / Thinking in Pictures
  The Washington Times, Sunday 26 November 1995, page B7.
• Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Roger Lewin / Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
  David H Freedman / Brainmakers
  Claus Emmeche / The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life
  John McCrone / The Myth of Irrationality: The Science of the Mind from Plato to Star Trek
  John G Taylor / When the Clock Struck Zero: Science's Unfathomable Universe
  The Washington Post Book World, Sunday 23 October 1994, page 10.
• Sheila Tobias / Overcoming Math Anxiety
  Edmund Ferrell / Mathopedia: the Omni guide to math for everyone
  Stanley Kogelman and Barbara R. Heller / The Only Math Book You'll Ever Need
  The Washington Post Education Review, Sunday 7 August 1994, page 24.
• Richard Restak / Receptors
  The Washington Times, Sunday 15 May 1994, page B7.
  Reprinted in Insight on the News 10(24) (13 June 1994), page 29.
• Francis Crick / The Astonishing Hypothesis
  The Washington Times, Sunday 20 February 1994, page B8.