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- Philippe Rochat, Full Professor of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
- Karen Pierce, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
(UCSD) Assistant Director, UCSD Autism Center of Excellence
Brain maturation and plasticity:
- David C van Essen, Professor of Neurobiology, Chair, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Washington University School of medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., Director of the UCSD-NIMH Autism Center of Excellence; Professor of Neuroscience,
Department of Neuroscience , School of Medicine; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
Perception and cognition :
- Robert Knight, MD, Professor of Neuroscience, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of
Psychology; University of California, Berkeley
- Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental
Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK.
Language :
- Naama Friedmann, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Language and Brain Laboratory, School of
Education; Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Helen Tager-Flusberg, Professor of Psychology, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Director of the
Laboratory of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Motor processing and social behaviour
- Bernard Bioulac, Professeur de Physiologie, Co Directeur de l’Institut thématique multi-organismes
Neurosciences, sciences cognitives, neurologie, psychiatrie, Paris, France
- Giacomo Rizzolatti, Professor of Human Physiology, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Parma,
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Symposium 1 : Enhancing the Scientific study of early Autism (ESSEA - COST)
- Tony Charman, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Centre for Research in Autism and Education, Faculty
of Policy and Society, Chair in Autism education, Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child
Health, London, UK
- Herbert Roeyers, Discussant, Professor in clinical Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
- Sven Bölte, Professor in Child and Adolescence Psychiatric Science, Karolinska Institutet, Astrid Lindgren
Children's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Terje Falck-Ytter, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden
- Emma Van Daalen, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Helen McConachie, Newcastle University, UK
Symposium 2 : Imaging of Brain networks
- Matthew K. Belmonte, PhD
- Declan Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Brain Maturation. Institute of Psychiatry, London UK.
- Roberto Toro, Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions, Institut Pasteur, URA 2182, Paris, France
Symposium 3 : Perception and cognition
- Elizabeth Milne, The Sheffield Autism Research Lab, University of Sheffield, UK
- Laurent Mottron, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montréal Center of Excellence for Autism (CETEDUM)
- Karen Plaisted-Grant, PhD, Department of Experimental Psychology, Director of Studies in Experimental
Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Symposium 4 : Therapeutics
- Michael Siller, Hunter College city University of New York, USA
- Eric Lemonnier, Pédopsychiatre, CHU Brest, Brest, France.
- Angela Sirigu, Directeur de Recherches CNRS, Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS, Bron, France
Symposium 5 : Language
- Napoleon Katsos, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- Tom Loucas, Lecturer in philosophy and psychology School of Psychology and Clinical language sciences,
University of Reading, Berkshire, UK
- Bruce Tomblin, Professor in Liberal Arts & Sciences and Director of the Child Language Research Center,
University of Iowa, USA
Symposium 6 : Genetics and environmental factors
- Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics,
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK
- Guy Rouleau, MD, PhD, Professor, University McGill, Montréal, Canada
- John Vincent, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Science, University
of Toronto, Head of the Neuropsychiatry & Development Lab, Neurogenetics Section, R-30, Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
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Symposium 7 : Social behaviour and cognition
- Coralie Chevallier, PhD in Cognitive Neurosciences, Developmental Neuroimaging Laboratory, Center for
Autism Research, University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
- Nouchine Hadjikhani, Professor in Radiology, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and
Harvard Medical School/MGH/MIT, MA, USA
- Atsushi Senju, ESRC Research fellow, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology,
Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK
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