Dear all,
Just a reminder that Professor Eve-Marie Quintin (McGill Education and Counseling Psychology) will be speaking in our Cognitive Area Seminar today, Friday, November 25th, 3:30 - 5 PM (Room S3/4, Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Avenue).
Her talk is titled, "Musical engagement in autism spectrum disorder and its social correlates in the general population."
For a full abstract, see below the dashed line.
Please join us at this event!
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*Musical engagement in autism spectrum disorder and its social correlates in the general population*
Eve-Marie Quintin, Ph.D., will present research suggesting that music may be a privileged means of communication with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Specifically, findings show that appreciation and music and listening habits of adolescents with ASD and their ability to recognize music-evoked emotions are not different from typically developing peers. She will also present ongoing work investigating the relationship between musical engagement, personality, and social skills including autistic traits present on a continuum in the general population.
Dr. Quintin joined the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University as an Assistant Professor in 2014 as a Faculty member of the School/Applied Child Psychology program. Dr. Quintin is a child and adolescent neuropsychologist. She completed a Ph.D. and Psy.D. in neuropsychology at Université du Québec à Montréal in 2011 where she conducted research on music and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As a postdoctoral fellow, she studied cognitive, behavioral, and brain development of individuals with ASD and fragile X syndrome at the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Stanford University from 2011 to 2013. She also investigated cognitive and brain aging at the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2013-2014. She now leads the McGill Behaviour, Autism, and NeuroDevelopment (BAND) research group. https://www.mcgill.ca/researchband/