Dr Dagmara Dimitriou
Senior Lecturer
I am interested in sleep disorders and visuo-spatial development, and how these relate to learning and behaviour in children with developmental disorders such as Autism, Williams Syndrome, Down Syndrome and ADHD.
View Dagmara's profile page at the IoE
View Dagmara's profile page at the IoE
Research Fellows:
Dr Frances Knight : Sleep and cognition in ADHD.
Current and recent MPhil/PhD students
Georgia Pavlopoulou (2011 - to date). Sibling relationship with children with Autism.
Luci Rose (2013- to date). Motivation in Autism.
Jessica Hayton (2013 - 2016). Development of motor abilities in visually impaired children
Wasmiah Bin Eid (2015- to date). Evaluation of parental views of Autism in Saudi Arabia.
Dr Anna Sniecinska: Endocrine and neurophysiological examination of sleep disorders in Williams syndrome. 2014. Awarded.
Dr Anna Ashworth: Sleep and cognition in children with Williams syndrome and Down syndrome, 2013. Awarded.
Dr Ai Lim Keow: Cross-cultural Variations in Naive Psychology, A Longitudinal Comparison of Preschool Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. University of Edinburgh, 2011, Awarded.
Dr Jo Van Herwegan: The Development of metaphor and metonyms in typically developing children and children with Williams syndrome. Kings College, 2010 Awarded.
Grant support: The British Academy, Williams Syndrome Foundation UK, Nuffield Foundation, Autour des williams, Waterloo Foundation
Invited Talks
Sleep related learning in developmental disorders at the Sleep Summit 2015:
https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1625253
International workshop on Sleep and Epilepsy in Children in Bologna (March 2015).
Selected publications
Book chapters
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
.
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
.
Grant support: The British Academy, Williams Syndrome Foundation UK, Nuffield Foundation, Autour des williams, Waterloo Foundation
Invited Talks
Sleep related learning in developmental disorders at the Sleep Summit 2015:
https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1625253
International workshop on Sleep and Epilepsy in Children in Bologna (March 2015).
Selected publications
Book chapters
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
.
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
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Grant support: The British Academy, Williams Syndrome Foundation UK, Nuffield Foundation, Autour des williams, Waterloo Foundation
Invited Talks
Sleep related learning in developmental disorders at the Sleep Summit 2015:
https://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1625253
International workshop on Sleep and Epilepsy in Children in Bologna (March 2015).
Selected publications
Book chapters
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
.
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
.
Grant support: The British Academy, Williams Syndrome Foundation UK, Nuffield Foundation, Autour des williams, Waterloo Foundation
Invited Talks
Sleep related learning in developmental disorders at the Sleep Summit 2015:
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International workshop on Sleep and Epilepsy in Children in Bologna (March 2015).
Selected publications
Book chapters
Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
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Annaz, D. & Ashworth, A. (2011). Sleep related learning in Williams syndrome. In Farran & Karmiloff-Smith (Eds.), Developmental Disabilities from Infancy to Adulthood: Lessons from Williams Syndrome.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Thomas, M. S. C. (2008). The importance of tracing developmental trajectories for clinical child neuropsychology. In J. Reed & J. Warner Rogers (Eds.), Child neuropsychology: Concepts, theory and practice, (pp. 7-18). Oxford: : Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
Submitted publications and publications under revision (please do not cite without permission)
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks & Hogan (under review). Developmental maturation of nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation in high altitude natives.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou D. (under review). Cross-Cultural Variations in Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Williams, J. M.,Lim, A. K., Cebula, K. R., & Dimitriou, D. (under review). Cross-cultural Variations in Naïve Psychology: A Longitudinal Comparison of Children in the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Van Herwegen, J.Smith, T. & Dimitriou, D.(under review). Exploring different explanations for performance on a theory of mind task in Williams syndrome and Autism using eye movements.
Dagmara Dimitriou, Romola S. Bucks, Ana Baya, Kate Heathcote, Catherine, M. Hill (in prep). Comparison of sleep and developmental milestones in high and low altitude Bolivian infants.
Catherine Hill , Nicolle Lewis, Matthew Jobson, Elizabeth McCaughey, Patrick Davey, Simone Holley, Dagmara Dimitriou (in prep). Predictors of poor sleep in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Rundblad, G., Dimitriou, D., and Van Herwegen, J. (in prep.). From impairment to cognitive delay – a study of figurative language in Williams syndrome highlighting methodological issues.
Dagmara Dimitriou and Michael Thomas (in prep). Cross-syndrome performance on face recognition.
Recent publications
Sniecinska, A., Iles, R. K., Butler, S. A., Jones, H., Bayford, R., & Dimitriou, D. (2014). Sleep disturbances, elevated cortisol and low melatonin in children with Williams syndrome. Sleep Medicine.
Anna Maria Sniecinska-Coopera, Ajit Jesang Shaha, Dagmara Dimitriou, Stephen Andrew Butler, Ray Iles, Richard Bayforda (2014). Determination of Urinary Cortisol, Cortisone and 6-Sulfatoxymelatonin using dilute and shoot Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography- Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography.
Dimitriou, D., Leonard, H., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M.H., & Thomas, M. S. C (2014). Cross-syndrome comparison of configural face processing: Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12141
Ashworth, A., Hill, C. M., Karmiloff-Smith, A. & Dimitriou, D., (2014). Sleep enhances learning in children. Journal of Sleep Research. Jun;23(3):302-8. doi: 10.1111/jsr.12119
Hill CM, Dimitriou D, Baya A, Heathcote K, Paul A, Gavlak J, L’Esperance V, Bucks RS (2014). Cognitive performance in high altitude Andean residents compared to low altitude populations: from childhood to older age. Neuropsychology, 28(5): 752-760 .
Fabia Franco, Shoji Itakura, Krystyna Pomorska, Anna Abramowski, Kozue Nikaido and Dagmara Dimitriou. Can children with Autism read emotions from eyes? The Eye-Test revisited (2014). Research in Developmental Disabilities.
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2014).The Importance of Sleep: Attentional Problems in School-Aged Children With Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 15:1-17.
Axelsson, E., Hill, C, Sadeh, A., Dimitriou, D. (2013). Sleep problems and language in toddlers with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3988–3996.
Dimitriou, D., Sniecinska, A. & Iles, R. (2013). Abnormal endocrine and behavioural sleep markers in a child with Williams syndrome and siblings. Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy. 2: 108. doi:10.4172/2167-0277.1000108
Anna Ashworth, Catherine M. Hill, Annette Karmiloff-Smith & Dagmara Dimitriou (2013). Cross syndrome comparison of sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities
Dimitriou, D., Hill, C. M., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2013). Impaired sleep related learning in children with Williams syndrome. Pediatrics Research International Journal.
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Development of novel metaphor and metonymy comprehension in typically developing children and Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34(4), pp. 1300-1311. ISSN (print) 0891-4222
Van Herwegen, J. Dimitriou, D. & Rundblad, G. (2013). Performance on verbal and low-verbal theory of mind tasks in children with Williams Syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(5-6), pp. 440-448. ISSN (print) 0021-9924
Published papers under Annaz
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2013). Reduced reliance on optimal facial information for identity recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14(3), 467-479.
Whayte, S., McCaughey, E., Holley, S., Annaz, D., & Hill, C.M. (2012). Sleep problems in children with cerebral palsy and their relationship with maternal sleep and depression. Acta Paediatrica, 101, Issue 6, 618–623.
Annaz, D, Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., & Swettenham, J. (2012). Young children with autism spectrum disorder do not preferentially orient to biological motion. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Van Herwegen, J., Rundblad, G., Davelaar, E. J., & Annaz, D. (2011). Variability and standardised test profiles in typically developing children and children with Williams Syndrome. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Annaz, D., Hill, C. M., Holly, S., Ashworth, A., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2011). Characterisation of sleep problems in children with Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 32(1), 164-169.
Van Herwegen, J., Farran, E., & Annaz, D. (2011). Item and error analysis on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices in Williams Syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32(1), 93-99.
Lim, A. K., Williams, J. M., Cebula, K. R., & Annaz, D. (2011). Cross-cultural variations in naïve psychology among 2-year-olds: A comparison of children in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Leonard, H.C., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M.H. (2010). Typical and atypical development of a mid-band spatial frequency bias in face recognition. Journal of Vision, 10 (7), 586.
Leonard, H., Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Johnson, M. (2010). Brief Report: Developing spatial frequency biases in face recognition in autism and Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(7), 968-973. IF(2.9)
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). The atypical development of metaphor and metonymy in autism. Autism, 14, 29-46.
Rundblad, G. & Annaz, D. (2010). Metaphor and metonymy comprehension: receptive vocabulary and conceptual knowledge. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(3), pp. 547-563.
Annaz, D, Remington, A., Milne, E., Campbell, R., Coleman, M., Thomas, M.S.C, & Swettenham, J. (2010). Atypical development of motion processing trajectories in autism. Developmental Science, 13(6), 826–838.
Annaz, D., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Johnson, M. H., & Thomas, M. S. C. (2009). Development of holistic face recognition in children with Autism, Down syndrome and Williams syndrome. Journal of Child Experimental Psychology, 102, 456-486
Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., Ansari, D., Scerif, G., Jarrold, C., & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2009). Using developmental trajectories to understand genetic disorders. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 52, 336-358.
Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., Fishman, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A., & Rundblad, G. (2009). The comprehension of metaphor and metonymy in children with Williams syndrome and typically developing children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(6) 962-978.
Carter, M., McCaughey, L., Annaz, D., & Hill, C. M. (2008). Sleep problems in a Down syndrome population. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 94(4), 308-311.
Annaz, D. & Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2005). Cross-syndrome, cross-domain comparisons of development trajectories. Commentary on Mile, Swettenham & Campbell. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition
Abreu, A. M., French, R. M., Annaz, D., Thomas, M. S. C., & de Schonen, S. (2005). A "visual conflict" hypothesis for global-local visual deficits in Williams syndrome: simulations and data. Published Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Karmiloff-Smith, A., Thomas, M. S. C., Annaz, D., et al. (2004). Exploring the Williams syndrome face processing debate: The importance of building developmental trajectories. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 45:7, 1258-1274.
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