23 février 2010
Laurent Mottron présentera "Où s'en va le modèle du surfonctionnement perceptif (EPF)
dans l'autisme ?
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- Intervenant : Laurent Mottron
- Laboratoire : Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives des Troubles Envahissants du Développement, Université de Montréal
- Date prévue : 23 février 2010 à 13h00
- Lieu : Salle D28 - BSHM - Domaine Universitaire
- Titre : Où s'en va le modèle du surfonctionnement perceptif (EPF)
dans l'autisme ?
- Abstract : The Enhanced Perceptual Functioning model (EPF; Mottron et al. 2001, 2006, 2009) is a description of autistic perceptual phenotype. According to EPF, autistic perception is characterized by enhanced low-level operations; locally-oriented processing as a default setting; greater activation of perceptual areas during a range of visuo-spatial, language, working memory, or reasoning tasks; enhanced role in guiding exploratory behaviours, autonomy towards higher processes; and superior involvement in intelligence. Descriptive principles have been preferred to explanatory deficits because autism is a form of life in itself. Therefore, deficit-oriented comparisons with neuro-typicals cannot account for what is a distributed, multi-level difference between autistic and non autistic humans. This talk will expose the updated state of knowledge on elementary mechanisms for which a distinction between autistic and non autistic perceptual processing can be evident. It also moves one step forward toward a systematization of these principles.
