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Mark Brosnan is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily concentrates on autism spectrum disorder, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology, with significant contributions in related social sciences fields. The scope of their work includes developmental and educational psychology, psychiatry, and mental health, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding autism and associated behavioral and psychological phenomena.

The scientist's main topics of research cover:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Mark Brosnan has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Autism
  • Autism in Adulthood
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Exploring an e-learning community's response to the language and terminology use in autism from two massive open online courses on autism education and technology use, 2021, Autism
  • A framework of evidence-based practice for digital support, co-developed with and for the autism community, 2020, Autism
  • An examination of active inference in autistic adults using immersive virtual reality, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Autistic adults' experience of restricted repetitive behaviours, 2021, Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • A Pilot Randomised Control Trial of Digitally-Mediated Social Stories for Children on the Autism Spectrum, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Mark Brosnan has collaborated frequently with researchers including Katie Maras, Ailsa Russell, Louis John Camilleri, Jeff Gavin, and Chris Ashwin. These partnerships reflect a consistent pattern of multidisciplinary teamwork in the study of autism and related psychological and cognitive subjects.

Best Publications

  • Technophobia: The Psychological Impact of Information Technology

    Mark J. Brosnan

  • The impact of computer anxiety and self-efficacy upon performance

    Mark J. Brosnan

  • Executive functioning in adults and children with developmental dyslexia.

    Mark Brosnan;James Demetre;Stephen Hamill;Kate Robson

  • Gender, Internet Identification, and Internet Anxiety : Correlates of Internet Use

    Richard W. Joiner;Jeff Gavin;Jill Duffield;Mark J. Brosnan

  • Gestalt processing in autism: failure to process perceptual relationships and the implications for contextual understanding

    Mark J. Brosnan;Fiona J. Scott;Simone Fox;Jackie Pye

  • A cross-cultural comparison of gender differences in computer attitudes and anxieties : the united kingdom and Hong Kong

    Mark Brosnan;Wanbill Lee

  • Gender, internet experience, Internet identification, and internet anxiety: a ten-year followup.

    Richard W. Joiner;Jeff Gavin;Mark J. Brosnan;John Cromby

  • Developing IDEAS: supporting children with autism within a participatory design team

    Laura Benton;Hilary Johnson;Emma Ashwin;Mark Brosnan

  • Modeling technophobia: a case for word processing

    Mark Brosnan

  • The impact of psychological gender, gender-related perceptions, significant others and the introducer of technology upon computer anxiety in students

    Mark J. Brosnan

  • Sex differences in facial emotion recognition across varying expression intensity levels from videos

    Tanja S. H. Wingenbach;Chris Ashwin;Mark Brosnan

  • The Development and Validation of the Empathy Components Questionnaire (ECQ).

    Laurie Batchelder;Mark Brosnan;Christopher Ashwin

  • The relationship between Internet identification, Internet anxiety and Internet use

    Richard Joiner;Mark Brosnan;Jill Duffield;Jeff Gavin

  • Reasoning on the Autism Spectrum: A Dual Process Theory Account

    Mark Brosnan;Marcus Lewton;Chris Ashwin

  • Validation of the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set – Bath Intensity Variations (ADFES-BIV): A Set of Videos Expressing Low, Intermediate, and High Intensity Emotions

    Tanja S. H. Wingenbach;Chris Ashwin;Mark Brosnan

  • SPATIAL ABILITY IN CHILDREN'S PLAY WITH LEGO BLOCKS

    Mark J. Brosnan

  • Comparing first and second generation digital natives' Internet use, Internet anxiety, and Internet identification.

    Richard W. Joiner;Jeff Gavin;Mark J. Brosnan;John Cromby

  • Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Show a Circumspect Reasoning Bias Rather than ‘Jumping-to-Conclusions’

    Mark Brosnan;Emma Chapman;Chris Ashwin

  • Computerphobia: Is it a particularly female phenomenon?

    Mark Brosnan;M Davidson

  • The role of psychological gender in the computer-related attitudes and attainments of primary school children (aged 6-11)

    Mark J. Brosnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Ashwin
Chris Ashwin University of Bath
Ailsa Russell
Ailsa Russell University of Bath
Nicola Yuill
Nicola Yuill University of Sussex
Howard Ring
Howard Ring University of Cambridge
Samuel J. Vine
Samuel J. Vine University of Exeter
Edmund Keogh
Edmund Keogh University of Bath
Michael M. Plichta
Michael M. Plichta Goethe University Frankfurt
Mark R. Wilson
Mark R. Wilson University of Wollongong
Robert D. Rogers
Robert D. Rogers Bangor University
Sue Fletcher-Watson
Sue Fletcher-Watson University of Edinburgh

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