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Biological, psychological and social signatures of mental health
University affiliation
- Assistant professor (Dec. 2011)
- Psychology department
- University of Quebec in Montreal
- Researcher - Center of excellence in pervasive developmental disorders of University of Montreal
Profile
Isabelle Soulières is a neuropsychologist and researcher at Riviere-des-Prairies Hospital. Her work focusses on the cognitive and cerebral underpinnings of autistic reasoning and learning. Her objective is to develop targeted and efficient teaching, learning and work methods for autistic children and adults, optimising their cognitive strengths and specificities.
Research interests
- Measure of reasoning capacities and intelligence in autistic individuals
- Cerebral mechanisms of reasoning in typical individuals, and in autistic individuals
- Role of perception in reasoning and cognition in general in autistic individuals
- Learning processes and categorization in autistic individuals
Recent publications
1. Soulières, I., Dawson, M., Gernsbacher, M. A., & Mottron, L. (2011). The level and nature of autistic intelligence II: What about Asperger syndrome? PLoS One.
2. Soulières, I., Zeffiro, T. A., Girard, M. L., & Mottron, L. (2011). Enhanced mental image mapping in autism. Neuropsychologia, 49, 848-857.
3. Soulières, I., Mottron, L., Giguère, G., & Larochelle, S. (2011). Category induction in autism: Slower, perhaps different but certainly possible. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 311-327.
4. Samson, F., Mottron, L., Soulières, I., & Zeffiro, T. A. (2011). Enhanced visual function in autism: an ALE meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping. Epub ahead of print.
5. Samson, F., Bertone, A., Hyde, K. L., Soulières, I., Mendrek, A., Ahad, P., Mottron, L., & Zeffiro, T. A. (2011). Atypical cortical resource allocation during processing of complex sounds in autistics. Neuropsychologia, 49, 546-555.
6. Soulières, I., Hubert, B., Rouleau, N., Gagnon, L., Tremblay, P., Seron, X., & Mottron, L. (2010). First empirical report of superior estimation abilities in two children with pervasive developmental disorders. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 261-276.
7. Sahyoun, C. P., Belliveau, J. W., Soulières, I., Schwartz, S., & Mody, M. (2010). Functional and structural networks of pictorial reasoning in high-functioning autism. Neuropsychologia, 48, 86-95.
8. Mitchell, P., Mottron, L., Soulières, I., & Ropar, D. (2010). Susceptibility to the Shepard Illusion in participants with autism: Reduced top-down influences within perception? Autism Research, 3, 113-119.
9. Soulières, I., Dawson, M., Samson, F., Barbeau, E. B., Sahyoun, C., Strangman, G. E., Zeffiro, T., & Mottron, L. (2009). Enhanced visual processing contributes to matrix reasoning in autism. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 4082-4107.
10. Mottron, L., Dawson, M., & Soulières, I. (2009). Enhanced perception in savant syndrome: Patterns, structure and creativity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, Biological sciences, 364, 1385-1391.
11. Sahyoun, C., Soulières, I., Belliveau, J. W., Mottron, L., & Mody, M. (2009). Cognitive differences in pictorial reasoning in autism and Asperger’s syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1014-1023.0