Caroline Blais
Professor
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation
Université du Québec en Outaouais
Research interests
My work uses techniques derived from psychophysics to better understand how socio-cultural environment modulates fundamental visual processes, ranging from the extraction of low-level visual information (e.g. sensitivity to spatial frequencies) to the processing of complex visual information (e.g. face, objects, scenes).
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive and Social Vision – Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
In the current context of globalization and multiculturalism, it is increasingly important that we understand how our visual and sociocultural environments affect visual perception. Dr. Caroline Blais, Canada Research Chair in in Cognitive and Social Vision, aims to increase this understanding.
Most visual perception studies to date have been conducted on Westerners, with the few cross-cultural ones conducted on only two cultures at a time. But Blais and her research team hope to increase data diversity by studying visual processing and the communication of social signals across different cultural groups.
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Principal ongoing projects
. Impact of culture on visual information extraction
. Ethnic bias impact on the facial information processing of other ethnicity.
. Visual mechanisms underlying facial expressions recognition.
. Impact of culture and prejudices on the processing of the facial expression of pain.
Courses
PSY1703 Social Psychology
PSY1743 Psychology, Culture and ethnicity
PSY1583 Quantitative Analysis
PSY2423 Advanced Quantitative Analysis Techniques
Publications and CV
Details
Office : C-3807, Pavillon Alexandre-Taché
Phone : +001 (819) 595-3900 poste 2551
Email : caroline.blais@uqo.ca
Daniel Fiset
Professor
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation
Université du Québec en Outaouais
Research interests
My works aim to understand how humans use visual information to effectively recognize faces, facial expression of emotions, written words and letters. To this end, I use psychophysical techniques (e.g. Bubbles, Reverse Correlation) as well as electrophysiology (EEG and ERP) to investigate low-level visual properties (e.g. spatial frequencies and orientations) and how they modulate the recognition of stimuli. My studies are done thanks to the collaboration of healthy participants as well as people who have difficulty recognizing faces (prosopagnosia) and written words (alexia or dyslexia). Recently, topics in social perception (racism, other-race effect, first impressions) are central to my laboratory.
Principal ongoing projects
. Individual differences in the perceptual processing of faces.
. Relationship between face identification and recognition of facial expressions.
. Other-race effect.
. Impact of attention in face processing.
Courses
PSY1633 Perception
PSY1653 Cognition
PSY2383 Introduction to neuropsychology
PSY9373 Cognitive neurosciences
Publications and CV
Details
Office : C-3805, Pavillon Alexandre-Taché
Phone : +001 (819) 595-3900 poste 2357
Email : daniel.fiset@uqo.ca