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Bart Boets

Bart Boets

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
7775
World Ranking
8177
National Ranking
117

Overview

Bart Boets is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Pharmacy, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research focuses on topics such as neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and autism spectrum disorder research. Additional areas of interest in their work include infant health and development, face recognition and perception, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and the neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Bart Boets has co-authored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Jean Steyaert, Stephanie Van der Donck, Kaat Alaerts, Matthijs Moerkerke, and Nicky Daniëls.

The scientist has published papers in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Molecular Autism
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Sciences
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Autism Research

Notable recent papers include:

  • Behavioral effects of multiple-dose oxytocin treatment in autism: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial with long-term follow-up (2020, Molecular Autism)
  • Autism spectrum disorder and pupillometry: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Endogenous Oxytocin Levels in Autism-A Meta-Analysis (2021, Brain Sciences)
  • Effects of multiple-dose intranasal oxytocin administration on social responsiveness in children with autism: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial (2023, Molecular Autism)
  • Rapid neural categorization of angry and fearful faces is specifically impaired in boys with autism spectrum disorder (2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

Best Publications

  • Precise minds in uncertain worlds: Predictive coding in autism.

    Sander Van de Cruys;Kris Evers;Ruth Van der Hallen;Lien Van Eylen

  • Working Memory and Individual Differences in Mathematics Achievement: A Longitudinal Study from First Grade to Second Grade.

    Bert De Smedt;Rianne Janssen;Kelly Bouwens;Lieven Verschaffel

  • Intact but less Accessible Phonetic Representations in Adults with Dyslexia

    Bart Boets;Hans P. Op de Beeck;Maaike Vandermosten;Sophie K. Scott

  • A qualitative and quantitative review of diffusion tensor imaging studies in reading and dyslexia

    Maaike Vandermosten;Bart Boets;Jan Wouters;Pol Ghesquière

  • A tractography study in dyslexia: neuroanatomic correlates of orthographic, phonological and speech processing

    Maaike Vandermosten;Bart Boets;Hanne Poelmans;Stefan Sunaert

  • Auditory processing, speech perception and phonological ability in pre-school children at high-risk for dyslexia: A longitudinal study of the auditory temporal processing theory

    Bart Boets;Jan Wouters;Astrid van Wieringen;Pol Ghesquière

  • Preschool impairments in auditory processing and speech perception uniquely predict future reading problems

    Bart Boets;Maaike Vandermosten;Hanne Poelmans;Heleen Luts

  • Modelling Relations between Sensory Processing, Speech Perception, Orthographic and Phonological Ability, and Literacy Achievement.

    Bart Boets;Jan Wouters;Astrid van Wieringen;Bert De Smedt

  • Cognitive flexibility in autism spectrum disorder: Explaining the inconsistencies?

    Lien Van Eylen;Bart Boets;Jean Steyaert;Kris Evers

  • Phonological processing and arithmetic fact retrieval: evidence from developmental dyslexia.

    Bert De Smedt;Bart Boets

  • A review of behavioural and electrophysiological studies on auditory processing and speech perception in autism spectrum disorders

    Birgitt Haesen;Bart Boets;Johan Wagemans

  • Towards a further characterization of phonological and literacy problems in Dutch-speaking children with dyslexia

    Bart Boets;Bert de Smedt;Leen Cleuren;Ellen Vandewalle

  • Altered functional connectivity of the language network in ASD: Role of classical language areas and cerebellum

    Marjolein Verly;Judith Verhoeven;Inge Zink;Dante Mantini

  • Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and nonspeech sounds on the basis of temporal cues

    Maaike Vandermosten;Bart Boets;Heleen Luts;Hanne Poelmans

  • Executive functioning in autism spectrum disorders: influence of task and sample characteristics and relation to symptom severity

    Lien Van Eylen;Bart Boets;Jean Steyaert;Johan Wagemans

  • Auditory Temporal Information Processing in Preschool Children at Family Risk for Dyslexia: Relations with Phonological Abilities and Developing Literacy Skills.

    Bart Boets;Jan Wouters;Astrid van Wieringen;Pol Ghesquière

  • Impairments in speech and nonspeech sound categorization in children with dyslexia are driven by temporal processing difficulties.

    Maaike Vandermosten;Bart Boets;Heleen Luts;Hanne Poelmans

  • Coherent Motion Sensitivity and Reading Development in the Transition From Prereading to Reading Stage

    Bart Boets;Maaike Vandermosten;Piers Cornelissen;Jan Wouters

  • Speech perception in preschoolers at family risk for dyslexia: relations with low-level auditory processing and phonological ability.

    Bart Boets;Pol Ghesquière;Astrid van Wieringen;Jan Wouters

  • Is There a Common Neuroanatomical Substrate of Language Deficit between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Specific Language Impairment

    Judith S. Verhoeven;Nathalie Rommel;Elena Prodi;Alexander Leemans

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Steyaert
Jean Steyaert KU Leuven
Ilse Noens
Ilse Noens KU Leuven
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine
Bert De Smedt
Bert De Smedt KU Leuven
Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London
Piers L. Cornelissen
Piers L. Cornelissen Northumbria University
Marc Moonen
Marc Moonen KU Leuven

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