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Atypical visual orienting to gaze- and arrow-cues in adults with high functioning autismPetra H J M Vlamings
Biological Developmental Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology, Universiteit Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
J Autism Dev Disord 35:267-77. 2005..These findings suggest that, instead of a specific Eye Direction Detector persons with autism might have a general 'Symbol Direction Detector'...- Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: an update, and eight principles of autistic perceptionLaurent Mottron
Pervasive Developmental Disorders Specialized Clinic, Riviere des Prairies Hospital, and Fernand Seguin Research Center, University of Montreal, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 36:27-43. 2006..The overfunctioning of brain regions typically involved in primary perceptual functions may explain the autistic perceptual endophenotype... - Perceptual processing among high-functioning persons with autismL Mottron
Clinique Spécialisée de lAutisme et Service de recherche, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, and Université de Montréal, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 40:203-11. 1999..The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to apparently discrepant evidence from other studies... - Lateral glances toward moving stimuli among young children with autism: Early regulation of locally oriented perception?Laurent Mottron
University of Montreal
Dev Psychopathol 19:23-36. 2007..These findings are initial evidence for the need to consider the neural bases and development of atypical behaviors and their implications for intervention strategies... 
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...- Matching strategies in cognitive research with individuals with high-functioning autism: current practices, instrument biases, and recommendationsLaurent Mottron
Centre de Recherche Fernand Seguin and Département de Psychiatrie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 34:19-27. 2004..Accordingly, the former instruments are a potential source of type-1 (for cognitive deficits) or type-2 (for cognitive hyperfunctioning) errors... - Locally oriented perception with intact global processing among adolescents with high-functioning autism: evidence from multiple paradigmsLaurent Mottron
Clinique spécialisée des Troubles Envahissants du Développement, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 44:904-13. 2003.... - Enhanced pitch sensitivity in individuals with autism: a signal detection analysisAnna Bonnel
University of Montréal Rivière des Prairies Hospital, Montreal, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 15:226-35. 2003..Thus, and as predicted by the enhanced perceptual functioning model for peaks of ability in autism (Mottron & Burack, 2001), autistic individuals outperform typically developing population in a variety of low-level perceptual tasks... - Local and global processing of music in high-functioning persons with autism: beyond central coherence?L Mottron
Hôpital Rivière des Prairies and Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 41:1057-65. 2000..The present study suggests that enhanced processing of elementary physical properties of incoming stimuli, as found previously in the visual modality, may also exist in the auditory modality... - A study of memory functioning in individuals with autismL Mottron
Clinique spécialisée des Troubles Envahissants du Développement, H pital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42:253-60. 2001..This interpretation is consistent with other findings of enhanced processing of low-level perceptual information in the visual and auditory modality in autism... - Atypical memory performance in an autistic savantL Mottron
Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Memory 6:593-607. 1998..The findings suggest that the outstanding episodic memory presented by some savant persons with autism might be related to an abnormally high resistance to interference... - Face perception in high-functioning autistic adults: evidence for superior processing of face parts, not for a configural face-processing deficitA Lahaie
, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Neuropsychology 20:30-41. 2006..The face-processing peculiarities known to characterize autism are discussed on the basis of these results and past congruent results with nonsocial stimuli... - Do high functioning persons with autism present superior spatial abilities?M J Caron
Clinique spécialisée des Troubles Envahissants du Développement, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, 7070 Boul Perras, Montreal PQ, Canada H1E 1A4
Neuropsychologia 42:467-81. 2004..At a neuro-anatomical level, these findings suggest an intact dorso-lateral pathway, and enhanced performance in non social tasks relying on the infero-temporal pathway... - Local bias in autistic subjects as evidenced by graphic tasks: perceptual hierarchization or working memory deficit?L Mottron
Université de Montréal and Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, QC, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 40:743-55. 1999..Alternatively, the executive function hypothesis suggests that autism brings about limitations in the complexity of information that can be manipulated in short-term visual memory during graphic planning... - Autism spectrum disorders associated with X chromosome markers in French-Canadian malesJ Gauthier
Centre Hospitalier de l Universite de Montreal, Research Centre, Notre Dame Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
Mol Psychiatry 11:206-13. 2006..00001). These results provide support for the existence of a locus on the X chromosome that predisposes the FC to autism spectrum disorders... - Motion perception in autism: a "complex" issueArmando Bertone
Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Cogn Neurosci 15:218-25. 2003..The contribution of this finding with regards to abnormal perceptual integration in autism, its effect on cognitive operations, and possible behavioral implications are discussed... - Global-local visual processing in high functioning children with autism: structural vs. implicit task biasesGrace Iarocci
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 36:117-29. 2006..This suggests that autism is associated with differences in the executive control processes used to guide attention to either the global or local level, and strategies may be more "data driven"... - 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... - Local bias and local-to-global interference without global deficit: a robust finding in autism under various conditions of attention, exposure time, and visual angleLixin Wang
School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Cogn Neuropsychol 24:550-74. 2007.... - Impaired face processing in autism: fact or artifact?Boutheina Jemel
Research Laboratory in Neuroscience and Cognitive Electrophysiology, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 36:91-106. 2006..The present paper reviews this bulk of empirical evidence, and concludes that the versatility and abilities of face processing in persons with autism have been underestimated... - 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... - [Elements of a clinical differential diagnosis between Asperger syndrome and the schizoid/paranoid personality]Laurent Mottron
Clinique spécialisée de l autisme, hôpital Rivières des Prairies, et département de psychiatrie de l Université de Montréal
Sante Ment Que 32:367-75. 2007..Consequences for case management are also reported... - Dream content analysis in persons with an autism spectrum disorderAnne Marie Daoust
Centre de Recherche Fernand Seguin, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Program, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 38:634-43. 2008..It is concluded that these characteristics of dreaming in ASD may reflect neurocognitive dimensions specific to this condition... - Temporal context memory in high-functioning autismAgnès Gras-Vincendon
Service psychothérapique pour enfants et adolescents, Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Autism 11:523-34. 2007..We suggest that individuals with autism are as efficient on this task as typically developing subjects because contextual memory performance here involves more automatic than organizational processing... - EEG correlates of emotions in dream narratives from typical young adults and individuals with autistic spectrum disordersAnne Marie Daoust
Centre de Recherche Fernand Seguin, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Program, Hôpital Rivière des Prairies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Psychophysiology 45:299-308. 2008..Distinctive Alpha EEG patterns and asymmetries suggest that dream generation implies different brain connectivity in ASD... - Can spectro-temporal complexity explain the autistic pattern of performance on auditory tasks?Fabienne Samson
Pervasive Developmental Disorders Specialized Clinic, Riviere des Prairies Hospital, and Fernand Seguin Research Center, University of Montreal, QC, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 36:65-76. 2006..Neural complexity required to perform auditory tasks may therefore explain pattern of performance and activation of autistic individuals during auditory tasks... - Mutation screening of FOXP2 in individuals diagnosed with autistic disorderJulie Gauthier
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center, 1650 Cedar Ave, Montreal, Canada
Am J Med Genet A 118:172-5. 2003..Using an intra-family association design, we identified no transmission disequilibrium in any of the four identified alleles, suggesting that the FOXP2 gene does not play a significant role in AD... - Benefits and pitfalls in the merging of disciplines: the example of developmental psychopathology and the study of persons with autismJacob A Burack
Department of Educational Psychology, McGill University, , , Canada
Dev Psychopathol 14:225-37. 2002..This will lead to scientifically compelling work and an increasingly heuristic approach to the study of persons with autism... - Developmental changes of autistic symptomsShirley Fecteau
, , Canada
Autism 7:255-68. 2003..The finding that improvement was not linked to level of functioning and was found in individuals still positive for a diagnosis of autism suggests that improvement belongs to the 'natural history' of the handicap... - EEG spectral analysis of wakefulness and REM sleep in high functioning autistic spectrum disordersAnne-Marie Daoust
Neurodevelopmental Disorders Program, Laboratoire du Sommeil, Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin, , 7070 Boulevard Perras, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H1E 1A4
Clin Neurophysiol 115:1368-73. 2004..Altogether, these results point toward atypical thalamo-cortical mechanisms subserving the neural processing of information in ASD... - NLGN3/NLGN4 gene mutations are not responsible for autism in the Quebec populationJulie Gauthier
Research Institute of the McGill University, Health Center, Cedar Ave, Montreal, H3G 1A4, Canada
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 132:74-5. 2005.... - Quantification judgement in high functioning autism: superior or different?Louise Gagnon
Departement de Psychologie, Universite de Montreal, Canada
J Autism Dev Disord 34:679-89. 2004..Possible explanations for these results are discussed with reference to models of locally-oriented information processing in autism... - Atypical sleep architecture and the autism phenotypeElyse Limoges
Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Program, , , , Canada
Brain 128:1049-61. 2005..Moreover, the results are consistent with an atypical organization of neural networks subserving the macro- and microstructure of sleep in ASD. We are furthering this research with quantified analysis of sleep EEG... - Eyes are special but not for everyone: the case of autismJelena Ristic
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 24:715-8. 2005.... - Enhanced and diminished visuo-spatial information processing in autism depends on stimulus complexityArmando Bertone
Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory, Ecole d Optometrie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Brain 128:2430-41. 2005..We suggest that atypical neural connectivity, resulting in enhanced lateral inhibition, may account for both enhanced and decreased low-level information processing in autism...