Professor Dermot Bowler

Chair, Departmental Research Committee; Associate Dean for Research Students; Director PhD Programme in Psychology

Overview

Professor Dermot Bowler graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1976 and gained his PhD from the University of London in 1986. After working at the Thomas Coram Research Unit and the Medical Research Council, he joined City University London as a lecturer in 1990.

He has also held honorary positions at the Universite de Montreal and is currently an adjunct professor at McGill University, Montreal.

Research interests

Professor Bowler's research interests focus on memory in people from the high functioning end of the autism spectrum, and have been generously supported by the Medical Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Nuffield foundation and Autism Speaks.

Publications

Articles

Gaigg, S. B. & Bowler, D. M. (in press). Relational memory difficulties in autism spectrum disorder: Implications for education. British Journal of Educational Psychology.
Massand, E., Jemel, B. Mottron, L. & Bowler, D. M. (2013). ERP correlates of recognition memory in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Online First.
Crane, L., Lind, S. & Bowler, D.M. (2012) Future thinking in ASD, Memory.
Maras, K. & Bowler, D. M. (2012). Eyewitness testimony in autism spectrum disorder: A review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, online first.
Maras, K., Gaigg, S. B. & Bowler, D. M. (2012). Memory for emotionally arousing events over time in autism spectrum disorder. Emotion.
Maras, K. & Bowler, D. M. (2012). Brief Report: Suggestibility, compliance and psychological traits in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6, 1168-1175.
Williams, D. M., Bowler, D. M. & Jarrold, C. (2012). Inner speech is used for short-term memory, but not planning, among intellectually high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 225-239.
Constable, P. A., Solomon, J., Gaigg, S. & Bowler, D. (2011). Visual search and crowding in adults with high functioning autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Optometry, 2, 93-103.
Maras, K. & Bowler, D. M. (2011). Brief Report: Schema consistent misinformation effects in eyewitnesses with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 815-820.
Maras, K. & Bowler, D. M. (2011). Context reinstatement effects on eyewitness memory in autism spectrum disorder. British Journal of Psychology, 103, 330-342.
Mukaetova-Ladinska, E. B., Perry, E., Baron, M., Povey, C. and the Autism Ageing Writing Group (2011). Ageing in people with autistic spectrum disorder. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 27, 109-118.
Poirier, M., Martin, J. S., Gaigg, S. B. & Bowler, D. M. (2011). Short-term memory in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 247-252.
Bowler, D. M., Gaigg, S. B. & Lind, S. E. (2010). Characteristics of memory in autism spectrum disorder. In I. Roth & P. Rezaie (Eds.), Researching the Autism Spectrum: Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lind, S. E. & Bowler, D. M. (2010) Episodic memory and episodic future thinking in adults with autism. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 896-905.
Lind, S. E. & Bowler, D. M. (2010). Impaired Performance on See-Know Tasks Amongst Children with Autism: Evidence of Specific Difficulties with Theory of Mind or Domain-General Task Factors? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 479-484.
Maras, K. & Bowler, D. M. (2010). The cognitive interview for witnesses with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 1350-1360.
Martin, J. S., Poirier, M. & Bowler, D. M. (2010). Brief report: impaired temporal reproduction of performance in adults with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 640-646.
Bowler, D.M., Limoges, E. & Mottron, L. (2009). Different verbal learning strategies in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 910-915.
Bowler, D. M., Gaigg, S. B. & Gardiner, J. M. (2009). Free recall learning of hierarchically organised lists by adults with Asperger's syndrome: Additional evidence for diminished relational processing. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 589-595.
Gaigg, S. B. & Bowler, D. M. (2009). Brief report: attenuated emotional suppression of the attentional blink in autism spectrum disorder: another non-social abnormality? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1211-1217.
Gaigg, S.B. & Bowler, D.M. (2009). Illusory memory for emotional lures in people with Asperger's syndrome: evidence for an emotion-perception deficit? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1031-1038.
Gaigg, S. B. & Bowler, D. M. (2009). Attenuated suppression of the attentional blink in autism spectrum disorder: Another non-social abnormality? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1211-1217.
Lind, S. E. & Bowler, D. M. (2009). Delayed self-recognition in autism spectrum disorder: Evidence for impaired temporally extended self-awareness? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 643-650.
Lind, S. E. & Bowler, D. M. (2009). Language and theory of mind in autism spectrum disorder: The relationship between complement syntax and false belief task performance. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 929-937.
Lind, S. E. & Bowler, D. M. (2009). Recognition memory, self-other source memory and theory-of-mind in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1231-1239.
Bowler, D. M., Gaigg, S. B. &, Gardiner, J. M. (2008) Subjective organisation in the free recall of adults with Asperger's syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 104-113.
Bowler, D. M., Gaigg, S. B. & Gardiner, J. M. (2008). Effects of related and unrelated context on recall and recognition by adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia, 46, 993-999.
Gaigg, S. B., Bowler, D. M. & Gardiner, J. M. (2008) Free recall in autism spectrum disorder: The role of relational and item-specific encoding. Neuropsychologia, 46, 986-992.
Gaigg, S. M., & Bowler, D. M. (2008) Free recall and forgetting of emotionally arousing words in autism spectrum disorders, Neuropsychologia, 46, 2336-2343.
Lind. S. E. & Bowler, D. M. (2008). Episodic memory, mental time travel and self-awareness in autism. In J. Boucher and D. M. Bowler (Eds.), Memory in Autism: Theory and Evidence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Molesworth, C. J., Bowler, D. M. & Hampton, J. A. (2008). When prototypes aren't best and category membership is restricted: Judgments made by children with in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1721-1730.
Saavalianen, P. M., Luoma, L., Laukkanen, E., Bowler, D. M., Maatta, S., Kiviniemi, V & Herrgard, E. (2008). School performance of adolescents born pre-term: Neuropsychological background correlates. European Journal of Pediatric Neurology, 12, 246-252.
Bowler, D. M., Gardiner, J. M. & Gaigg, S. B. (2007). Factors affecting conscious awareness in the recollective experience of adults with Asperger's syndrome. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 124-143.
Gaigg, S. B. & Bowler, D. M. (2007). Fear conditioning in Asperger's syndrome: Implications for an amygdala theory of autism. Neuropsychologia, 45, 2125-2134.
Bowler, D. M., Briskman, J.A. Gurvidi, N. & Fornells-Ambrojo, M (2005). Autistic and non-autistic children's performance on a non-social analogue of the false belief task. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 259-283.
Molesworth, C. A., Bowler, D. M. & Hampton, J. A. (2005). Memory for modal prototypes in high-functioning children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46, 661-672.

Teaching

PS1002 Specialist Background in Psychology
PS3007 Psychological Approaches to Autism
PS3001 Psychology Project