Justine Cléry, PhD
Justine Cléry, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University, the head of the Sensory and Social Brain Mechanisms (SSBM) Lab at The Neuro, and a research member of the Azrieli Centre for Autism Research (ACAR).
As a neuroscientist, her research aims to better understand how sensory information and social cognition are encoded across the neurodevelopment. For that, her lab has developed a non-invasive neuroimaging and behavioral platform to collect data in non-human primate models. Through this platform, they are using functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (f/sMRI), touchscreen tasks, eyetracking tasks, vocalization recordings and machine learning to correlate imaging and behavioral data.
Prof. Cléry obtained her Doctorate in Neurosciences at the University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Suliann Ben Hamed at the Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France. From 2017 to 2021, she was a Postdoctoral Associate, working with Prof. Stefan Everling in the Laboratory for Neural Circuits and Cognitive Control at the Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Since she started her lab, she has secured several grants for supporting her research program such as Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant program; Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé (FRQS); Canadian Fund for Innovation; Brain Canada Foundation; New Frontiers in Research Fund- Transformation
Gilbert, K.M., Cléry, J.C., Gati, J.S., Hori, H., Johnston, K.D, Mashkovtsev, A., Selvanayagam, J., Zeman, P., Menon, R.S., Schaeffer, D.J., Everling, E. Simultaneous functional MRI of two awake marmosets. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26976-4
Cléry, J.C., Hori, H., Schaeffer, D.J., Menon, R.S., Everling, S. (2021) Social interaction observation network identified in marmosets by ultra-high field fMRI. eLife. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65012
Cléry, J. C., Hori, Y., Schaeffer, D. J., Gati, J. S., Pruszynski, J. A., & Everling, S. (2020). Whole brain mapping of somatosensory responses in awake marmosets investigated with ultra-high field fMRI. Journal of Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00480.2020
Cléry, J. C., Schaeffer, D. J., Hori, Y., Gilbert, K. M., Hayrynen, L. K., Gati, J. S., Menon, R. S., & Everling, S. (2020). Looming and receding visual networks in awake marmosets investigated with fMRI. NeuroImage, 215, 116815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116815
Cléry, J., Guipponi, O., Odouard, S., Wardak, C., & Ben Hamed, S. (2018). Cortical networks for encoding near and far space in the non-human primate. NeuroImage, 176, 164–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.036
Cléry, J., & Ben Hamed, S. (2018). Frontier of Self and Impact Prediction. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01073
Cléry, J., Amiez, C., Guipponi, O., Wardak, C., Procyk, E., & Ben Hamed, S. (2017). Reward activations and face fields in monkey cingulate motor areas. Journal of Neurophysiology, 119(3), 1037–1044. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00749.2017
Cléry, J., Guipponi, O., Odouard, S., Pinède, S., Wardak, C., & Hamed, S. B. (2017). The Prediction of Impact of a Looming Stimulus onto the Body Is Subserved by Multisensory Integration Mechanisms. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(44), 10656–10670. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0610-17.2017
Cléry, J., Guipponi, O., Wardak, C., & Ben Hamed, S. (2015). Neuronal bases of peripersonal and extrapersonal spaces, their plasticity and their dynamics: Knowns and unknowns. Neuropsychologia, 70, 313–326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.10.022
Cléry, J., Guipponi, O., Odouard, S., Wardak, C., & Ben Hamed, S. (2015). Impact prediction by looming visual stimuli enhances tactile detection. The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 35(10), 4179–4189. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3031-14.2015
