Pauline Duret, M. Sc.

Current program

PhD in Neuroscience
Université de Montréal, 2015-2020 

Thesis Project

Understanding diversity across the autism spectrum though brain plasticity and predictive learning 
Supervised by Laurent Mottron, Université de Montréal
Co-supervised by Christina Schmitz, Université Lyon 1 

Awards and recognitions

Training awards

2015-2018 Contrat doctoral spécifique normalien – Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche de France

Publications

Scientific articles

Mottron, L., Duret, P., Mueller, S., Moore, R. D., d’Arc, B. F., Jacquemont, S. et Xiong, L. (2015). Sex differences in brain plasticity: a new hypothesis for sex ratio bias in autism. Molecular autism, 6(1), 33.

Duret, P., Samson, F., Pinsard, B., Barbeau, E. B., Boré, A., Soulières, I. et Mottron, L. (2018). Gyrification changes are related to cognitive strengths in autism. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 415-423.


Oral presentations 

Duret, P. (2020, février). The Bayesian brain : basics and applications to autism [communication orale]. Séminaire pour la Journée d’étude du dispositif TED, Hôpital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, Lyon, France.

Duret, P. (2016). Altered connectivity between brain regions involved in social body motion perception in adults with autism : a fcMRI study [communication orale]. NeuroSymposium 2016, Montréal, QC, Canada.


Poster presentations

Lacroix, A., Cumin, J., Tsaag-Valren, A., Duret, P., Mottron, L. et Cazalis, F. (2019, septembre). What can we learn by including autistic people in the scientific process? [communication par affiche]. XIIe Congrès international Autisme-Europe, Nice, France.

Lacroix, A., Cumin, J., Duret, P., Tsaag-Valren, A., Rynkiewicz, A., Mottron, L. et Cazalis, F. (2019, septembre). Exploration of the French version of the Q-ASC: a tool for investigating the female autistic profile [communication par affiche]. XIIe Congrès international Autisme-Europe, Nice, France.

Duret, P., Kujala, M., Riot, G., Sonié, S., Meunier, D., Hénaff M.-A., Georgieff, N., Mottron, L., Fonlupt, P. et Schmitz, C. (2016, mai). Altered connectivity between brain regions involved in social body motion perception in adults with autism : a fcMRI studyPoster [communication par affiche]. International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR), Baltimore, MD, États-Unis.

Duret, P., Pinsard, B., Boré, A., Samson, F., Barbeau, E. Soulières, I. et Mottron, L. (2015, mai). Influence of speech onset delay on cortical gyrification in adolescent with autism [communication par affiche]. International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR), Salt Lake City, UT, États-Unis.

Mottron, L. Duret, P., Collignon, O., Xiong, L. et Samson, F. (2015, mai). How genetically induced synaptic plasticity and regional cortical rededications account for autistic superior performances: The Trigger-Threshold-Target-Neglect model for autism [communication par affiche]. International Meeting For Autism Research (IMFAR), Salt Lake City, UT, États-Unis.