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Jacob A. Burack

Jacob A. Burack

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
11519
World Ranking
6586
National Ranking
443

Overview

Jacob A. Burack is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with additional focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, health, and developmental neuroscience.

Their research covers several major topics, including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Williams Syndrome Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Jacob A. Burack's recent publications feature studies on developmental perspectives, emotion processing, trauma-informed approaches, and youth mental health. Notable papers include:

  • Changes in Youth Mental Health, Psychological Wellbeing, and Substance Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Review (2022), Adolescent Research Review
  • Developmental Perspectives on the Study of Persons with Intellectual Disability (2021), Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Emotion processing and autism spectrum disorder: A review of the relative contributions of alexithymia and verbal IQ (2020), Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Trauma-informed Approaches to Substance Use Interventions with Indigenous Peoples: A Scoping Review (2021), Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
  • Choices, challenges, and constraints: a pragmatic examination of the limits of mental age matching in empirical research (2021), Development and Psychopathology

The researcher's frequent co-authors include David W. Evans, Dennis C. Wendt, Natalie Russo, Jenilee-Sarah Napoleon, and Grace Iarocci.

Their work has been published in multiple scholarly venues, with recurring contributions in:

  • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • McGill Journal of Medicine
  • Transcultural Psychiatry
  • Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Jacob A. Burack's scholarly output reflects an integration of psychological and neuroscientific approaches addressing developmental and clinical populations, with emphasis on intellectual disability, autism, trauma, and resilience. Their research provides insights relevant to public health and neurodevelopmental disorders within diverse populations.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced Perceptual Functioning in Autism: An Update, and Eight Principles of Autistic Perception

    Laurent Mottron;Michelle Dawson;Isabelle Soulières;Benedicte Hubert;Benedicte Hubert

  • Enhanced perceptual functioning in the development of autism.

    Laurent Mottron;Jacob A. Burack

  • Locally oriented perception with intact global processing among adolescents with high‐functioning autism: evidence from multiple paradigms

    Laurent Mottron;Jacob A. Burack;Grace Iarocci;Sylvie Belleville

  • Developmental psychopathology : perspectives on adjustment, risk, and disorder

    S S Luthar;Dante Cicchetti;J Burack;D Cicchetti

  • Eyes are special but not for everyone: The case of autism

    Jelena Ristic;Laurent Mottron;Chris Kelland Friesen;Grace Iarocci

  • Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome.

    Anna Bonnel;Stephen McAdams;Bennett Smith;Claude Berthiaume

  • The development of autism : perspectives from theory and research

    Jacob A. Burack;Tony Charman;Nurit Yirmiya;Philip R. Zelazo

  • The relation between theory of mind and rule use: evidence from persons with autism‐spectrum disorders

    Philip David Zelazo;Sophie Jacques;Jacob A. Burack;Douglas Frye

  • Deconstructing executive deficits among persons with autism: implications for cognitive neuroscience.

    Natalie Russo;Tara Flanagan;Grace Iarocci;Darlene Berringer

  • Veridical mapping in the development of exceptional autistic abilities

    Laurent Mottron;Lucie Bouvet;Anna Bonnel;Anna Bonnel;Fabienne Samson

  • Perceptual Processing among High-functioning Persons with Autism

    Laurent Mottron;Jacob A. Burack;Johannes E. A. Stauder;Philippe Robaey

  • Selective Attention Deficits in Persons With Autism: Preliminary Evidence of an Inefficient Attentional Lens

    Jacob A. Burack

  • Developmental Changes of Autistic Symptoms

    Shirley Fecteau;Laurent Mottron;Claude Berthiaume;Jacob A. Burack

  • Theory of Mind and Rule Use in Individuals With Down's Syndrome: A Test of the Uniqueness and Specificity Claims

    Philip David Zelazo;Jacob A. Burack;Elizabeth Benedetto;Douglas Frye

  • Handbook of Mental Retardation and Development

    Jacob A. Burack;Robert M. Hodapp;Edward Zigler

  • Cognitive Complexity and Control: I. Theory of Mind in Typical and Atypical Development

    Douglas Frye;Philip David Zelazo;Jacob A. Burack

  • Social perspective-taking skills in maltreated children and adolescents

    Jacob A. Burack;Tara Flanagan;Terry Peled;Hazel M. Sutton

  • Issues in the Developmental Approach to Mental Retardation

    Robert M. Hodapp;Jacob A. Burack;Edward Zigler

  • On mosaics and melting pots: conceptual considerations of comparison and matching strategies.

    Jacob A. Burack;Grace Iarocci;Tara D. Flanagan;Dermot M. Bowler

  • Attention, Development, and Psychopathology

    Jacob A. Burack;James T. Enns

Frequent Co-Authors

Grace Iarocci
Grace Iarocci Simon Fraser University
James T. Enns
James T. Enns University of British Columbia
Laurent Mottron
Laurent Mottron University of Montreal
David I. Shore
David I. Shore McMaster University
Edward Zigler
Edward Zigler Yale University
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
Louis A. Schmidt
Louis A. Schmidt McMaster University
Robert M. Hodapp
Robert M. Hodapp Vanderbilt University
Suniya S. Luthar
Suniya S. Luthar Columbia University
Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London

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