Professor Dermot Bowler

Information:
Specialism:	Developmental neuropsychology of autism spectrum disorder
Teaching:	PS3007 Approaches to Autism
Location:	Social Sciences Building, Room DG04
Tel:	020 7040 0153
Fax:	020 7040 8580
Email:	d.m.bowler@city.ac.uk
Office hours:	Tues: 14:00-15:00, Weds: 13:00-14:00, Thurs: 13:00-14:00
Administration:	Postgraduate tutor for research; course director MSc in social research methods and psychology

I graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1976 and gained my PhD from the University of London in 1986. After working at teh Thomas Coram Research Unit and the Medical Research Council, I joined City University as a lecturer in 1990. I have also held honorary positions at the Universite de Montreal and am currently an adjunct professor at McGill University, Montreal. My current research interests are focused 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.

Selected Publications:

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.

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.

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., 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.

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.

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.

Bowler, D.M., Limoges, E. & Mottron, L. (2009). Serial learning by adults with Asperger’s syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 910-915.

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.

Books

Bowler, D. M. Autistm Spectrum Disorders: Psychological Theory and Research. Chichester: Wiley. 2007.

Boucher, J. & Bowler, D. M. (Eds.) Memory in Autism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.