Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg
Dr. Robert Joseph
Autism Studies at Boston University School of Medicine
Laboratory of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Researchers in our lab have published extensively in the areas of face processing in autism, language in autism, theory of mind, and social perception in Williams syndrome. Below is a sample of some of our most recent publications.

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Tager-Flusberg, H., & Joseph, R.M. (2003). Identifying neurocognitive phenotypes in autism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 358, 303-314.
Joseph, R.M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2004). The relationship of executive functions and theory of mind to symptom type and severity in children with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 16, 137-155.
Kjelgaard, M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2001). An investigation of language impairment in autism: Implications for genetic subgroups. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 287-308.
Herbert, M., Harris, G., Adrien, K., Ziegler, D., Makris, N., Kennedy, D., Lange, N., Chabris, C., Bakardjiev, A., Hodgson, J., Takeoka, M., Tager-Flusberg, H., & Caviness, V. (2002). Abnormal asymmetry in language association cortex in autism. Annals of Neurology and Brain, 52:5, 589-596.
Hale, C.M., & Tager-Flusberg, H. (2003). The influence of language on theory of mind: A training study. Developmental Science, 6.
Tager-Flusberg, H., & Sullivan, K. (2000). A componential view of theory of mind: Evidence from Williams syndrome. Cognition,76, 59-89.
Tager-Flusberg, H., Plesa-Skwerer, D., Faja, S., & Joseph, R.M. (2003). People with Williams syndrome process faces holistically. Cognition, 89, 11-24.
Joseph, R.M., & Tanaka, J. (2003). Holistic and part-based face recognition in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44:4, 529-542.
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