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| Isabelle SoulieresSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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The level and nature of autistic intelligence II: what about Asperger syndrome?Isabelle Soulieres
Centre d Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du Développement de l Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PLoS ONE 6:e25372. 2011..Autistic spectrum intelligence is atypical, but also genuine, general, and underestimated...- Enhanced mental image mapping in autismI Soulieres
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:848-57. 2011.... - Category induction in autism: slower, perhaps different, but certainly possibleIsabelle Soulieres
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 64:311-27. 2011..Our findings confirm that categorization may be successfully performed by autistics, but may necessitate longer exposure to material, as the top-down use of rules may be only secondary to a guessing strategy in autistics... - Enhanced visual processing contributes to matrix reasoning in autismIsabelle Soulieres
Neural Systems Group, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:4082-107. 2009..Visual processing mechanisms may therefore play a more prominent role in reasoning in autistics... - Atypical processing of auditory temporal complexity in autisticsFabienne Samson
Centre d Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du Développement de l Université de Montréal CETEDUM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Neuropsychologia 49:546-55. 2011.... - The level and nature of autistic intelligenceMichelle Dawson
Pervasive Developmental Disorders Specialized Clinic, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychol Sci 18:657-62. 2007..We conclude that intelligence has been underestimated in autistics... - Neuroimaging of the functional and structural networks underlying visuospatial vs. linguistic reasoning in high-functioning autismChérif P Sahyoun
MGH MIT HMS Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129 2060, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:86-95. 2010..The HFA group's engagement of posterior brain regions along with its weak connections to frontal language areas suggest support for a reliance on visual mediation in autism, even in tasks of higher cognition... - Enhanced perception in savant syndrome: patterns, structure and creativityLaurent Mottron
Clinique spécialisée de l autisme, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies7070 Boulevard Perras, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H1E 1A4
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1385-91. 2009..In the context of autistics' enhanced perception, the nature and extent of these two mechanisms, and their possible contribution to the creativity evident in savant performance, are explored... - Superior estimation abilities in two autistic spectrum childrenIsabelle Soulieres
Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Centre d Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du Développement de l Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Cogn Neuropsychol 27:261-76. 2010..Within this framework, it is proposed that estimation abilities, like absolute pitch, rely on the ability to map a verbal code with a specific magnitude of a psychophysical dimension... - Atypical categorical perception in autism: autonomy of discrimination?Isabelle Soulieres
Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal and Clinique spécialisée des troubles Envahissants du Développement, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 37:481-90. 2007..The absence of influence of categorical knowledge on discrimination suggests an increased autonomy of low-level perceptual processes in autism, in the form of a reduced top-down influence from categories toward discrimination...