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8856
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National Ranking
517

Overview

Jill Boucher is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields, notably Neuroscience, Psychology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. These broad areas are further specified through subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Genetics.

Their work primarily addresses core topics such as Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Language Development and Disorders, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. This focus is reflected across their publications and collaborations.

One of their recent scholarly contributions is the paper titled Declarative Memory and Structural Language Impairment in Autistic Children and Adolescents, published in 2020 in the journal Autism Research. This publication contributes to understanding language impairments within the context of autism and has been cited in related research.

  • Declarative Memory and Structural Language Impairment in Autistic Children and Adolescents (2020, Autism Research)

Jill Boucher frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Sophie Anns
  • Sebastian Gaigg
  • James A. Hampton
  • Dermot Bowler

Their publications have appeared in journals such as:

  • Autism Research

Jill Boucher's research contributions connect developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience with the molecular and genetic underpinnings of neurodevelopmental conditions, emphasizing the intersection of genetic factors and language development in autism spectrum disorders.

Best Publications

  • Convergent neuroanatomical and behavioural evidence of an amygdala hypothesis of autism.

    Matthew Howard;P E Cowell;J Boucher;P Broks

  • Unfamiliar face recognition in relatively able autistic children.

    Jill Boucher;Vicky Lewis

  • Research review: structural language in autistic spectrum disorder - characteristics and causes

    Jill Boucher

  • Disordered connectivity in the autistic brain: Challenges for the 'new psychophysiology'

    Gina Rippon;Jon Brock;Caroline C. Brown;Jill Boucher

  • Memory deficits in early infantile autism: some similarities to the amnesic syndrome.

    Jill Boucher;Elizabeth K. Warrington

  • Language in autism and specific language impairment: where are the links?

    David M. Williams;Nicola Botting;Jill Boucher

  • Symbolic Play in Autism: A Review.

    Christopher Jarrold;Jill Boucher;Peter Smith

  • Language and Thought: Interdisciplinary Themes

    Peter Carruthers;Jill Boucher

  • Spontaneous, instructed and elicited play in relatively able autistic children

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  • Generativity deficits in pretend play in autism

    Christopher Jarrold;Jill Boucher;Peter K. Smith

  • Familiar face and voice matching and recognition in children with autism.

    Jill Boucher;Vicky Lewis;Glyn Collis

  • Memory in autistic spectrum disorder.

    Jill Boucher;Andrew Mayes;Sally Bigham

  • Gamma abnormalities during perception of illusory figures in autism.

    Caroline Brown;Thomas Gruber;Jill Boucher;Gina Rippon

  • Relationships between symbolic play, functional play, verbal and non-verbal ability in young children

    Vicky Lewis;Jill Boucher;Laura Lupton;Samantha Watson

  • Language Profiles in Children with Autism Theoretical and Methodological Implications

    Christopher Jarrold;Jill Boucher;James Russell

  • Memory in autism

    Jill Boucher;Dermot M. Bowler

  • Pretend Play: Is It Metarepresentational?

    Chris Jarrold;Peter Carruthers;Peter K. Smith;Jill Boucher

  • Memory in autism: Theory and evidence.

    Jill Boucher;Dermot Bowler

  • Putting theory of mind in its place: psychological explanations of the socio-emotional-communicative impairments in autistic spectrum disorder

    Jill Boucher

  • Voice Processing Abilities in Children with Autism, Children with Specific Language Impairments, and Young Typically Developing Children

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  • Memory for recent events in autistic children.

    Jill Boucher

  • Motor impairments in children with autistic disorder

    Jenny Page;Jill Boucher

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Carruthers
Peter Carruthers University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher Jarrold
Christopher Jarrold University of Bristol
Andrew R. Mayes
Andrew R. Mayes University of Manchester
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Mark Blades
Mark Blades University of Sheffield
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Kathy Sylva
Kathy Sylva University of Oxford
Teresa McCormack
Teresa McCormack Queen's University Belfast

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