birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name occupation
bléré , france canada cognitive neuroscience university of montreal 13 june 1952 laurent mottron
 laurent mottron psychiatrist
laurent mottron

laurent mottron is a full professor in the department of psychiatry at the university of montreal and `` chercheur national '' with quebec health research fund .
he holds the marcel and rolande gosselin research chair on cognitive neuroscience in autism of the montreal university since 2008 .
as a clinician , he founded the specialized autism spectrum disorder without mental retardation clinic at the rivière-des-prairies hospital , montreal , quebec in 1995 , and the pervasive development disorder centre for excellence of université de montréal -lrb- cetedum -rrb- in 2007 .
since 1997 , his research has been funded by the canadian institutes of health research .
he has signed some hundred scientific articles about the cognitive neuroscience of autism .
his most significant results relate to visual and auditory perception in savant and non savant autism , investigated by brain imaging and cognitive tasks .
the enhanced perceptual functioning model that he developed with the montreal group is now one of the leading theories for interpreting cognitive and fmri data in autism .
he is also interested in re-examining the role of mental retardation and epilepsy in primary autism , and in the inclusion of autistic researchers in science .
