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| Isabelle SoulieresSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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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 mental image mapping in autismI Soulieres
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:848-57. 2011....
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 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...
Enhanced visual functioning in autism: an ALE meta-analysisFabienne Samson
Centre d Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du Développement de l Université de Montréal CETEDUM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Hum Brain Mapp 33:1553-81. 2012....
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...
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....
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...
The level and nature of autistic intelligence III: Inspection timeElise B Barbeau
Centre d Excellence en Troubles Envahissants du Développement de l Université de Montréal CETEDUM, Montreal, QC, Canada
J Abnorm Psychol 122:295-301. 2013..When autism spectrum abilities are compared to typical abilities, results may be influenced by speech development history as well as by the instrument used for intelligence matching...
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...
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...
