Laurent Mottron, Université de Montréal

Research

Autism Cognitive Neuroscience Complexity Fmri Perception

Latest papers

Distinct neural alterations in schizophrenia and autism: a task-based functional neuroimaging meta-analysis of social cognition and emotion processing.
Scientific reports · 2026
Autism-ness Does Not Exist, but Autism Does, Part 2: The Perception-Language Chimera Model Accounts for the Nature, Chronology, and Interrelation of Autistic Signs.
Autism & developmental language impairments · 2026 · first author
Autistic Children With Speech Onset Delay Show Reversed Bias in Spectral Versus Temporal Auditory Processing.
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026 · senior author

All 75 publications

Latest funding

Un atlas vidéo des signes autistiques pour diagnostiquer plus tôt et plus spécifiquement l'autisme des jeunes enfants
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
SCALE - Social Cognition in Autism across LEvels
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$765,000
Precision neuroimaging of atypical brain network hierarchy in autism
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$883,575

All 18 grants and awards

75 publications.

01

Distinct neural alterations in schizophrenia and autism: a task-based functional neuroimaging meta-analysis of social cognition and emotion processing.

Boisvert M, Pilon F, Mottron L, Potvin S

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-59244-w PMID: 42457783

02

Autism-ness Does Not Exist, but Autism Does, Part 2: The Perception-Language Chimera Model Accounts for the Nature, Chronology, and Interrelation of Autistic Signs.

Mottron L, Desrosiers J, Lafrance Mcguire O, Lestage G, Krikorian AL, Ostrolenk A, Gagnon D

Autism & developmental language impairments2026First author

DOI: 10.1177/23969415261454212 PMID: 42291294

03

Autistic Children With Speech Onset Delay Show Reversed Bias in Spectral Versus Temporal Auditory Processing.

Yu L, Xie S, Wang L, Mottron L

Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/aur.70248 PMID: 41944023

04

Early manifestations of unexpected bilingualism in minimally verbal autism.

Gagnon D, Ostrolenk A, Mottron L

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.70032 PMID: 40801086

05

Autism-ness Does Not Exist, but Autism Does. Part 1: A Critic of the "Spectrum" Position Used to Describe, Diagnose, and Research Autism, and Its Alternative.

Mottron L, McGuire OL, Gagnon D

Autism & developmental language impairments2025First author

DOI: 10.1177/23969415251404764 PMID: 41356733

06

Autism in schizophrenia and its original link to self-disorder: returning a borrowed concept.

Henriksen MG, Nielsen KM, Mottron L, Nordgaard J

The lancet. Psychiatry2025

DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00132-4 PMID: 40480245

07

What do autistic children who are interested in letters and numbers do with them? A qualitative study.

Ostrolenk A, Boisvert M, Mottron L

International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/17482631.2025.2500851 PMID: 40320659

08

Calendar calculation: A systematic review of 100 years of research.

Desrosiers J, Gagnon D, Ostrolenk A, Boutros A, Bernhardt BC, Courchesne V, Mottron L

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106376 PMID: 40972904

09

A fMRI meta-analysis of emotion processing in the psychosis spectrum reveals no significant alterations in at-risk individuals.

Pilon F, Boisvert M, Mottron L, Potvin S

Psychiatry research2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116565 PMID: 40482576

10

A systematic review and meta-analysis of empathy in autism: The influence of measures.

Cusson NM, Meilleur AJ, Bernhardt BC, Soulières I, Mottron L

Clinical psychology review2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2025.102623 PMID: 40743600

Un atlas vidéo des signes autistiques pour diagnostiquer plus tôt et plus spécifiquement l'autisme des jeunes enfants

SupervisorCIHR2025DRA : Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGRS D)

Principal investigators: Bonenfant, Anh

Keywords: Atlas Vidéos; Autisme; Certitude Clinique; Cliniciens Expérimentés; Comportements; Diagnostic Précoce; Disparités Diagnostiques; Enfants Préscolaires; Formation

$120,000

SCALE - Social Cognition in Autism across LEvels

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Dumas, Guillaume

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorders; Clinical Alliance; Electroencephalography; Hyperscanning; Inter-Brain Synchronization; Precision Psychiatry; Predictive Modeling; Social Interaction; Togetherness; Virtual Avatars

$765,000

Precision neuroimaging of atypical brain network hierarchy in autism

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bernhardt, Boris

Keywords: 7 Tesla; Autism; Connectomics; Mri; Neuroimaging

$883,575

Parsing heterogeneity in the autism spectrum through a developmental cognitive and brain perspective

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Soulières, Isabelle

Keywords: Autism; Cognitive Development; Fmri; Functional Connectivity; Intelligence; Neuropsychology; Reasoning

$527,850

Et Si On Privilégiait Des Contextes Stimulants Pour Les Enfants Autistes?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jacques, Claudine C.J.

Keywords: autisme; enfance; petite enfance; comportements répétitifs; intérêts intenses; émotions; observation

$156,411

Et Si On Privilégiait Des Contextes Stimulants Pour Les Enfants Autistes?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jacques, Claudine C.J.

Keywords: autisme; enfance; petite enfance; comportements répétitifs; intérêts intenses; émotions; observation

$62,131

Estimating the effect size of rare genomic variants on cognitive and behavioral traits underlying neurodevelopmental disorders

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Jacquemont, Sebastien

Keywords: Copy Number Variants; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Psychiatric Disorders; Single Nucleotide Variants

$1,021,275

Reasoning differences and trajectories in children on the autism spectrum

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Soulières, Isabelle

Keywords: Autism; Fmri; Intelligence; Neuropsychology; Reasoning

$100,000

The predictive brain: a sensitive biomarker of neurodevelopment

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Lippé, Sarah

Keywords: Children; Eeg; Neurodevelopment; Ultrasound

$332,401

Assessing the development of elementary and social perception in autism using behavioral and electrophysiological approaches

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Bertone, Armando

Keywords: Autism; Cognition; Development; Developmental Trajectories; Electrophysiology; Eye-Tracking; Psychophysics; Social Perception

$528,022

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Ridha Joober and Ridha Joober: 246 shared papers
Danilo Bzdok and Danilo Bzdok: 129 shared papers
Michel Boivin and Michel Boivin: 62 shared papers
Sebastien Jacquemont and Sebastien Jacquemont: 35 shared papers
Philip Awadalla and Philip Awadalla: 22 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Armando Bertone: 11 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Laurent Mottron: 7 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Ridha Joober: 7 shared papers
Liam Crapper and Carl Ernst: 7 shared papers
Pierre Drapeau and Laurent Mottron: 6 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Pierre Drapeau: 5 shared papers
Pierre Drapeau and Ridha Joober: 5 shared papers
Armando Bertone and Franco Lepore: 5 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Danilo Bzdok: 4 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Danilo Bzdok: 4 shared papers
Sebastien Jacquemont and Guillaume Dumas: 4 shared papers
Guillaume Dumas and Sebastien Jacquemont: 4 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and Laurent Mottron: 3 shared papers
Michel Boivin and Franco Lepore: 3 shared papers
Pierre Drapeau and Patrick Cossette: 3 shared papers
Michel Boivin and Franco Lepore: 3 shared papers
Boris Bernhardt and Danilo Bzdok: 3 shared papers
Boris Bernhardt and Danilo Bzdok: 3 shared papers
Ridha Joober and Patrick Cossette: 2 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Sebastien Jacquemont: 2 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Patrick Cossette: 2 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Franco Lepore: 2 shared papers
Laurent Mottron and Sebastien Jacquemont: 2 shared papers
Sebastien Jacquemont and Carl Ernst: 2 shared papers
Boris Bernhardt and Guillaume Dumas: 2 shared papers
Carl Ernst and Sebastien Jacquemont: 2 shared papers
Jean-Eric Tarride and Nancy Presse: 1 shared paper
Ridha Joober and Michel Boivin: 1 shared paper
Ridha Joober and Philip Awadalla: 1 shared paper
Ridha Joober and Michel Boivin: 1 shared paper
Ridha Joober and Philip Awadalla: 1 shared paper
Michel Boivin and Laurent Mottron: 1 shared paper
Pierre Drapeau and Philip Awadalla: 1 shared paper
Pierre Drapeau and Philip Awadalla: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Philip Awadalla: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Liam Crapper: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Michel Boivin: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Isabelle Soulières: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Boris Bernhardt: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Carl Ernst: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Nancy Presse: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Philip Awadalla: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Guillaume Dumas: 1 shared paper
Laurent Mottron and Dave Saint-Amour: 1 shared paper
Franco Lepore and Dave Saint-Amour: 1 shared paper

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Armando Bertone

Faculty

11 shared papers, latest 2020

Ridha Joober

Faculty

7 shared papers, latest 2023

Ridha Joober

Psychiatry

7 shared papers, latest 2023

Pierre Drapeau

Neurosciences

6 shared papers, latest 2011

Danilo Bzdok

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2023

Danilo Bzdok

Faculty

4 shared papers, latest 2023

Jean-Eric Tarride

Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

3 shared papers, latest 2019

Patrick Cossette

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2009

Sebastien Jacquemont

Pediatrics

2 shared papers, latest 2023

Sebastien Jacquemont

Faculty

2 shared papers, latest 2023

Franco Lepore

Otolaryngology

2 shared papers, latest 2020

Guillaume Dumas

Pediatrics

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Philip Awadalla

Pediatrics/Human Genetics

1 shared papers, latest 2010

Dave Saint-Amour

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2010

Liam Crapper

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Michel Boivin

Psychologie

1 shared papers, latest 2010

Isabelle Soulières

Psychologie

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Boris Bernhardt

Neurology and Neurosurgery

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Carl Ernst

Neurology and Neurosurgery

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Nancy Presse

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Philip Awadalla

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2010

Michel Boivin

Psycho-éducation

1 shared papers, latest 2010

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