Dave Saint-Amour, Ph.D.

Dave Saint-Amour is Associate Researcher in the Department of Ophtalmology at the Université de Montréal and direct the Eye-Brain Electrophysiology Laboratory located at the CHU Ste-Justine Research Centre.

CONTACT

CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre
3175 Cote-Ste-Catherine
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

Phone : 514-345-4931 ext. 3894
Fax : 514-345-4801
Email :d.st.amour@umontreal.ca

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

My research interests concern the neurophysiology of the human visual system in individuals with developmental disorders. I am also particularly interested in the mechanisms by which vision can influence and interact with the other sensory systems (multisensory integration). The privileged approach to address these issues in humans is functional imaging including high-density electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, optical imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation and intracranial recordings in epilepsy patients.

STUDIED DISEASES

Amblyopia, blindness, autism, developmental neurotoxicity

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Saint-Amour D, De Sanctis F, Molhom S, Ritter W, Foxe JJ, Seeing voices: High-density electrical mapping and source-analysis of the multisensory mismatch negativity evoked during the McGurk illusion, Neuropsychologia, 45, 587-97, 2007.

Saint-Amour D, Roy MS, Bastien C, Ayotte P, Dewailly E, Gingras S, Muckle G, Alterations of visual evoked potentials in preschool Inuit children exposed to methylmercury and polychlorinated biphenyls from a marine diet, Neurotoxicology 27, 567-578, 2006.

Saint-Amour D, Lepore F, Guillemot J-P, Lassonde M, Sound localization in early-blind human subjects: evidence for adaptative cortical plasticity, In S. Lomber & J.J. Eggermont (Eds). Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 395-411, 2006.

Saint-Amour D, Walsh V, Guillemot J-P, Lassonde M, Lepore F, Role of primary visual cortex in the binocular integration of plaid motion perception, European Journal of Neuroscience 21, 1107-1115, 2005.

USEFUL LINKS

CHU Ste-Justine Research Centre

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