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McGill Youth Study Team
Journal Articles
Gordon Green, C., Szekely, E., Babineau, V., Jolicoeur-Martineau, A., Bouvette-Turcot, A., Minde, K., Sassi, R., Atkinson, L., Kennedy, J. L., Steiner, M., Lydon, J., Gaudreau, H., Burack, J. A., Herba, C, M., Pennestri, M., Levitan, R., Meaney, M. J., & Wazana, A. (in press). Negative emotionality as a candidate mediating mechanism linking prenatal maternal mood problems and offspring internalizing behaviour. Development and Psychopathology (Impact Factor: 4.151).
Weva, V., Napoleon, J. S., Malkus, E., Hoover, M., Krabbendam, L., Burack, J. A., & Huizinga, M. (in press). School adaptation among immigrant youth from a Dutch integration program: The influence of acculturative stress and bicultural identity integration on academic motivation. Current Psychology (Impact factor: 4.297).
Owais S., Savoy C. D., Hill T., Lai J., Burack J. A., & Van Lieshout R. J. (2022). Mental health challenges among First Nations adolescents living off-reserve in Ontario, Canada. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, (Impact Factor: 2.35).
Zolopa, C., Burack, J. A., O'Connor, R. M., Corran, C., Lai, J., Bomfim, E., DeGrace, S., Dumont, J., Larney, S., & Wendt, D. C. (2022). Changes in youth mental health, psychological wellbeing, and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid review. Adolescent Research Review, 26, 1-17. (Impact Factor: 3.48).
Burack, J. A., Evans, D. W., Napoleon, J. S., Weva, V. K., Russo, N., & Iarocci, G. (2021). The science of humanity and the humanity of science: Perspectives on Ed Zigler ’s contributions to developmental psychopathology and the study of all children. Development and Psychopathology, 33, 441-452. (Impact Factor: 4.151)
Burack, J. A., Evans, D. W, Russo, N., Napoleon, J. S., Goldman, K. J., & Iarocci, G. (in press). Developmental perspectives on the study of persons with intellectual disability. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology.
Owais, S, Faltyn M, Zou H, Hill T, Kates N, Burack JA, Van Lieshout RJ (in press). Psychopathology in the Offspring of Indigenous Parents with Mental Health Challenges: A Systematic Review. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
Russo, N., Kaplan, E., Wilson, J., Criss, A., & Burack. J. A. (in press). Choices, challenges, and constraints: A pragmatic examination of the limits of mental age matching in empirical research. Development and Psychopathology.
Sivathasan, S., Palma Fernandes, T., Burack, J. A., & Quintin, E.M., (in press). Re-examining emotion recognition in children with ASD: Considerations from developmental, multimodal, and behavioural variability perspectives. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Burack, J. A., Evans, D. W., Lai, J., Russo, N., Landry, O., Kovshoff, H., Goldman, K. J., & Iarocci, G. (2020). Edward Zigler’s legacy in the study of persons with intellectual disability: The developmental approach and the advent of a more rigorous and compassionate science. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 64, 1-6.
Burack, J. A., & Luthar, S. S. (2020). Edward Zigler. American Psychologist. 75, 410-411.
Blacklock, A., Schmidt, L. A, Fryberg, S., Klassen, G. H., Querengesser, J., Stewart, J., Campbell, C.A., Flores, H., Reynolds, A., Tootoosis, C., & Burack, J.A. (2020). Identification with mainstream, but not ancestral, culture is associated with increased problem behaviors among First Nations youth. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57, 321-331. doi: 10.1177/1363461519847299
Burack, J.A., Gurr, E., Weva, V. & Stubbert, E. (2019). Personality development among Indigenous youth in Canada: Weaving together universal and community-specific perspectives. New Ideas in Psychology, 53, 67-74.
Hadad, B., Russo, N,. Kimchi, R., Babineau, V., & Burack, J. A. (2019). Typical utilisation of Gestalt grouping cues in shape perception by persons with autism spectrum disorder. Perception, 48, 1175-1196. doi: 10.1177/0301006619874681.
Wendt, D. C., Hartmann, W. E., Allen, J. A., Burack, J. A., Charles, B., D’Amico, E., Dell, C. A., Dickerson, D. L., Donovan, D. M., Gone, J. P., O’Connor, R. M., Radin, S. M., Rasmus, S. R., Venner, K. L., & Walls, M. L. (2019). Substance use research with Indigenous communities: Exploring and extending foundational principles of community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 64, 146-158. doi:10.1002/ajcp.12363
Brodeur, D., Stewart, J., Dawkins, T., & Burack, J. A. (2018). Utilitarian attention by children with autism spectrum disorder on a visual filtering task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48, 4019-4027.
Goldman, K. J., Shulman, C., & Burack, J. A. (2018). Inference from facial expressions among adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 123, 344-358.
Huizinga, M., Baeyens, D., & Burack, J. A. (2018). Editorial: Executive function and education. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental, 9.
Campbell, C. A., Russo, N., Landry, O., Jankowska, A. M., Stubbert, E., Jacques, S., & Burack, J. A. (2017). Nonverbal, rather than verbal, functioning may predict cognitive flexibility among persons with autism spectrum disorder: A preliminary study. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 38, 19-25. doi: 10.1016/j.rasd.2017.03.005
Goldman, K J., Burack, J. A., & Shulman, C. (2017). Learning from facial expressions in individuals with Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 60, 982-992. doi: 10.1111/jir.12316
Goldman, K J., Shulman, C., Bar-Haim, Y., Abend, R., & Burack, J. A. (2017). Attention allocation to facial expressions of emotion among persons with Williams and Down syndromes. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1189-1197. doi: 10.1017/S0954579416001231
Gordon Green, C., Babineau, V., Jolicoeur-Martineau, A., Bouvette-Turcot, A.A., Minde, K., Sassi, R., St- Andre, M., Carrey, N., Atkinson, L., Kennedy, J., Steiner, M., Lydon, J., Gaudreau, H., Burack, J. A., Levitan, R., Meaney, M., & Wazana, A. (2017). Prenatal maternal depression and child serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) and dopamine receptor (DRD4) genotype predict negative emotionality from 3 to 36 months. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 901-917. doi: 10.1017/S0954579416000560
Burack, J. A., Russo, N., Kovshoff, H., Fernandes, T.P., Ringo, J., Landry, O., & Iarocci, G. (2016). How I attend - not how well do I attend: Rethinking developmental frameworks of attention and cognition in autism spectrum disorder and typical development. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17, 553-567.
Jaswal, V. K., Akhtar, N., and Burack, J. A. (2016). Building bridges: Cognitive development in typical and atypical populations. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17, 549-552.
Schmidt, L. A., Burack, J. A., & van Lieshout, R. J. (2016). Themed issue on developmental origins of adult mental health and illness. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 7, 564.
Flanagan, T., Brodeur, D., & Burack, J. A. (2015). A point of departure in the comparison of social and nonsocial visual orienting among persons with autism spectrum disorders. Autism Research, 8, 575-582. doi: 10.1002/aur.1472
Kovshoff, H., Shore, D. I., Iarocci, G., & Burack, J. A. (2015). Developmental trajectories of form perception: A story of attention. Developmental Psychology, 51, 1544-1552. doi: 10.1037/a0039643
Brodeur, D., Gordon Green, C., Flores, H., & Burack, J. A. (2014). Time estimation among low-functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders: Evidence of poor sensitivity to variability of short durations. Autism Research, 7, 237-244. doi: 10.1002/aur.1364
Kéïta L., Bedoin N., Burack J. A., & Lepore F. (2014). Switching between global and local levels: the level repetition effect and its hemispheric asymmetry. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 252. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00252
Lane, K., Stewart, J., Fernandes, T., Russo, N., Enns, J. T., Burack, J. A. (2014). Complexities in understanding attentional functioning among children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 119. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00119.
Stanutz, S., Wapnick, J., & Burack, J. A. (2014). Pitch discrimination and melodic memory in children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 18, 137-147. doi: 10.1017/S095457941200123X
Brodeur, D. A., Trick, L., Flores, H., Marr, C., & Burack, J. A. (2013). Multiple-object tracking in individuals with Down syndrome and typically developing children. Development and Psychopathology, 25, 545-553. doi:10.1017/S095457941200123X
Burack, J. A., D’Arrisso, A., Ponizovsky, V., Troop-Gordon, W., Mandour, T., Tootoosis, C., Robinson, S., Iarocci, G., & Fryberg, S. (2013). Friends and grades: Peer preference and attachment predict academic success among Naskapi youth. School Psychology International, 13, 371-386. doi:10.1177/0143034312446888
Campbell, C. A., Landry, O., Russo, N., Flores, H., Jacques, S., & Burack, J. (2013). Cognitive flexibility among individuals with Down syndrome: Assessing the influence of verbal and non-verbal abilities. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 118, 193-200. doi: 10.1352/1944-7558-118.3.193
Fryberg, S. A., Covarrubias, R., & Burack, J. A. (2013). Cultural models of education and academic performance for Native American and European American students. School Psychology International, 34, 439-452.
Fryberg, S., Troop-Gordon, W., D’Arrisso, A., Flores, H., Ponizovskiy, V., Ranney, J. D., Mandour, T., Tootoosis, C., Robinson, S., Russo, N., & Burack, J. A. (2013). Cultural mismatch and the education of Aboriginal youth: The interplay of cultural identities and teacher ratings. Developmental Psychology. 49, 72-79. doi: 10.1037/a0029056
Mottron, L., Bouvet, L., Bonnel, A., Samson, F., Burack, J. A., Dawson, M., Heaton, P. (2013). Veridical mapping in the development of exceptional autistic abilities. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 37, 209-228. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.11.016
Burack, J. A., Dawkins, T., Stewart, J., Flores, H., Iarocci, G., & Russo, N. (2012). “The mysterious myth of attention”… revisited: A discussion of how the developmental approach is transforming the understanding of persons with intellectual disability. International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, 42, 147-177.
Hayward, D. A., Shore, D. I., Ristic, J., Kovshoff, H., Iarocci, G., Mottron, L., & Burack, J. A. (2012). Flexible visual processing in young adults with autism: The effects of implicit leraning on a global-local task. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 2383-2392. doi: 10.1007/s10803-012-1485-0
Landry, O., Russo, N., Dawkins, T., Zelazo, P.D., & Burack, J. A. (2012). The impact of verbal and nonverbal development on executive function in Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 18, 24-33.
Russo, N, Mottron, L., Burack, J. A., & Jemel, B. (2012). Parameters of semantic multisensory integration depend on timing and modality order among people on the autism spectrum: evidence from event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia, 50, 2131-2141.
Flanagan, T. D, Iarocci, G., D’Arrisso, A., Mandour, T., Tootoosis, C., Robinson, S., & Burack, J. A. (2011). Reduced ratings of physical and relational aggression for youths with a strong cultural identity: Evidence from the Naskapi People. Journal of Adolescent Health, 49, 155-159.
Lleras, A., Porporino, M., Burack, J. A., & Enns, J. T. (2011). Rapid resumption of interrupted search is independent of age-related improvements in visual search. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 58-72.
Bonnel, A., McAdams, S., Smith, B., Berthiaume, C., Bertone, A., Ciocca, V., Burack, J. A., & Mottron, L. (2010). Enhanced pure-tone pitch discrimination among persons with autism but not Asperger syndrome. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2465-2475.
Huizinga, M., Burack, J.A., & van der Molen, M. W. (2010). Age-related change in shifting attention between global and local levels of hierarchical stimuli. Journal of Cognition and Development, 11, 408-436.
Bertone, A., Bonnel, A., & Burack, J. A. (2009). Complexities in interpreting perceptual profiles among persons with autism spectrum disorders: Examples from research on auditory and visual processing. McGill Journal of Medicine, 12, 82-86.
Burack, J. A., Joseph, S., Russo, N., Shore, D. I., Porporino, M., & Enns, J. T. (2009). Change detection in naturalistic pictures among children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 471-479.
Iarocci, G., Enns, J. T., Randolph, B., & Burack, J. A. (2009). The modulation of visual orienting reflexes across the lifespan. Developmental Science, 12, 715-724.
Landry, O., & Burack, J. A. (2009). Visual orienting among persons with autism spectrum disorders. McGill Journal of Medicine 12, 112-115.
Landry, O., Mitchell, P., & Burack, J. A. (2009). Orienting of visual attention among persons with autism spectrum disorders: Reading versus responding to symbolic cues. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 862-870.
Stewart, M. E., Russo, N., Banks, J., Miller, L., & Burack, J. A. (2009). Sensory characteristics in ASD. McGill Journal of Medicine, 12, 108-111.
Burack, J. A., & Russo, N. (2008). On why joint attention might look atypical in autism: A case for a strong policy statement but a more nuanced empirical story. Child Development Perspectives, 2, 46-48.
Flanagan, T., Russo, N., Flores, H., & Burack, J. A. (2008). The developmental approach to the study of Down syndrome: Contemporary issues in historical perspective. Down Syndrome: Research and Practice.
Burack, J. A., Blidner, A., Flores, H. V., & Fitch, T. A. (2007). Constructions and deconstructions of risk, resilience and well-being: A model for understanding the development of Aboriginal adolescents. Australasian Psychiatry, 15, S18-S23.
Burack, J. A., & Weeks, D. J. (2007). Research trends and innovations in the study of persons with Down syndrome and their families. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 923-924.
Conrad, N. J., Schmidt, L. A., Niccols, A., Polak, C. P., Riniolo, T. C., & Burack, J. A. (2007). Frontal electroencephalogram asymmetry during affective processing in children with Down syndrome: A pilot study. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 988-995.
Flanagan, T., Enns, J. T., Murphy, M. M., Russo, N., Randolph, B., Abbeduto, L., & Burack, J. A. (2007). Differences in visual orienting between persons with Down or fragile X syndromes. Brain and Cognition, 65, 128-134.
Russo, N., Flanagan, T., Berringer, D., Iarocci, G., Zelazo, P. D. & Burack, J. A. (2007). Deconstructing the executive function deficit in autism: Implications for cognitive neuroscience. Brain and Cognition, 65, 77-86.
Burack, J. A., Flanagan, T., Peled, T., Sutton, M., Zygmuntowicz, C., and Manly, J. T. (2006). Social perspective-taking skills in maltreated children and adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 42, 207-217.
Iarocci, G., Burack, J. A., Shore, D. I., Mottron, L., & Enns, J. T. (2006). Global-local visual processing in high functioning children with autism: Structural versus implicit task biases. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 117-129.
Mottron, L., & Burack, J. A. (2006). Editorial preface. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 1-3.
Mottron, L., Dawson, M., Hubert, B., Soulieres, I., & Burack, J. A. (2006). The enhanced perceptual functioning model of autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 27-43.
Shore, D. I., Burack, J. A., Miller, D., Joseph, S., & Enns, J. T. (2006). The development of change detection. Developmental Science, 9, 490-497.
Burack, J. A., Russo, N., Matejka-Grivas, A., Bonnel, A., & Iarocci, G. (2005). Science in motion: The quest for coherence in emerging research on autism. Current Psychology of Cognition, 23, 84-93.
Cornish, K., Burack, J. A., Rahman, A., & Russo, N. (2005). Theory of mind deficits in fragile X syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 49, 372-378.
Goldman, K., Flanagan, T., Shulman, C., Enns, J. T., & Burack, J. A. (2005). Voluntary orienting among children and adolescents with Down syndrome and MA-matched typically developing children. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 110, 157-163.
Ristic, J., Mottron, L., Friesen, C. K., Iarocci, G., Burack, J. A., & Kingstone, A. (2005). Eyes are special but not for everyone: The case of autism. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 715-718.
Burack, J. A. (2004). Editorial preface. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 3-5.
Burack, J. A., Iarocci, G., Flanagan, T., & Bowler, D. M. (2004). On melting pots and mosaics: Conceptual considerations for matching strategies. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 65-73.
Iarocci, G., & Burack, J. A. (2004). Intact covert orienting to peripheral cues among children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34, 257-264.
Porporino, M., Shore, D. I., Iarocci, G., & Burack, J. A. (2004). A developmental change in selective attention and global form perception. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 358-364.
Fecteau, S., Mottron, L., Berthiaume, C., & Burack, J. A. (2003). Developmental changes of autistic symptoms. Autism, 7, 255-268.
Mottron, L, Burack, J. A., Iarocci, G. Belleville, S., & Enns, J. T. (2003). Locally oriented perception with intact global processing among adolescents with high-functioning autism: Evidence from multiple paradigms. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 904-913.
Pastò, L., & Burack, J. A. (2002). Visual filtering and focusing among persons with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and no psychiatric history. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 34,239-249.
Burack, J. A., Iarocci, G., Bowler, D. M., & Mottron, L. (2002). Benefits and pitfalls in the merging of disciplines: The example of developmental psychopathology and the study of persons with autism. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 225-237.
Zelazo, P. D., Jacques, S., Burack, J. A., & Frye, D. (2002). The relation between theory of mind and rule-use: Evidence from persons with autism spectrum disorders. Infant and Child Development, 11,171-195
Burack, J. A., Evans, D. W., Klaiman, C., & Iarocci, G. (2001). The mysterious myth of attentional deficit and other defect stories: Contemporary issues in the developmental approach to mental retardation. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation, 24, 300-321.
Burack, J. A., Enns, J. T., Iarocci, G., & Randolph, B. (2000). Age differences in visual search for compound patterns: Long versus short range grouping. Developmental Psychology, 36, 721-730.
Enns, J. T., Burack, J. A., Iarocci, G., & Randolph, B. (2000). Issues of microgenesis, ontogenesis, and psychopathology in global-local processing: A Wernerian story of development. Journal of Adult Development, 7, 41-48.
Mottron, L., & Burack, J. A. (2000). Why simulated developmental disorders don’t predict real ones: A reply to Oliver, Johnson, Karmiloff-Smith, & Pennington. Developmental Science, 3, 29-31.
Randolph, B., & Burack, J. A. (2000). Visual filtering and covert orienting in persons with Down syndrome. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 24, 167-172.
Burack, J. A., Shulman, C., Katzir, E., Schaap, T., Brennan, J., Iarocci, G., Wilansky, P., & Amir, N. (1999). Cognitive and behavioral development of males with fragile X and Down syndrome. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 23, 519-531.
Frye, D., Zelazo, P. D., & Burack, J. A. (1999). Cognitive complexity and control: Implications for theory of mind in typical and atypical populations. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 7, 116-121.
Mottron, L., Burack, J. A., Stauder, J. E. A., & Robaey, P. (1999). Perceptual processing among high-functioning adolescents with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40, 203-211.
Pastò, L., & Burack, J. A. (1997). A developmental study of visual filtering: Can windows facilitate filtering efficiency? Cognitive Development, 12, 427-439.
Burack, J. A., Root, R., & Shulman, C. (1996). The developmental approach to mental retardation. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 5, 781-796.
Zelazo, P. D., Burack, J. A., Benedetto, E., & Frye, D. (1996). Theory of mind and rule use in individuals with Down syndrome: A test of the uniqueness and specificity claims. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 37, 479-484.
Burack, J. A. (1994). Selective attention deficits in persons with autism: Preliminary evidence for an inefficient attentional lens. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103, 535-543.
Burack, J. A. (1992). Debate and argument: Clarifying developmental issues in the study of autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 617-622.
Burack, J. A., Kurtz, L., & Derevensky, J. (1992). Services for persons with mental retardation: A debate for all seasons. McGill Journal of Education, 27, 275-278.
Burack, J. A., & Volkmar, F. R. (1992). Development in high and low functioning autistic children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 33, 607-616.
Burack, J. A., Hodapp, R. M., & Zigler, E. (1990). Technical note: Toward a more precise understanding of mental retardation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 31, 471-475.
Burack, J. A., & Zigler, E. (1990). Intentional and incidental memory in organically mentally retarded, familial retarded, and nonretarded children. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 94, 532-540.
Hodapp, R. M., & Burack, J. A. (1990). What mental retardation teaches us about typical development: The examples of sequences, rates, and cross domain relations. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 213-225.
Burack, J. A., & Zigler, E. (1989). Age of first hospitalization and premorbid competence in various forms of schizophrenia and affective disorder. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 59, 188-196.
Zigler, E., & Burack, J. A. (1989). Personality development and the dually diagnosed person. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 10, 225 240. Abstracted in Clinician's Research Digest, 1990, 8, 6.
Burack, J. A., Hodapp, R. M., & Zigler, E. (1988). Issues in the classification of mental retardation: Differentiating among organic etiologies. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 29, 765-779.
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