Marie-Pier Plouffe-Demers
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of the Research Scholarship FRQNT (B1)
Recipient of the SSHRC Scholarship (CGS M)
Recipient of SSHRC scholarship (PGS-D)
Research interests:
- PhD thesis: The impact of individual factors (sex, empathy) and culture on the perceptive and neural mechanisms underlying the perception of pain in others.
- Honour thesis: Perceptive mechanisms underlying the processing of static and dynamic facial expressions.
- The impact of ethnic bias on perceptive mechanisms and behaviors.
- The use of Reverse correlation to reveal body image disturbance.
Details:
Email: mpplouffe@gmail.com
Arianne Richer
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Research interest:
- Perceptual window size used for optimal facial treatment
Details:
Email: rica30@uqo.ca
Joël Guérette
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Recipient of the FRQSC Research Awards (B1 & B2)
Research interests:
- Cognitive bias and decisional processes in sports
- Impact of social factors on participation in physical activity
- Promotion of physical activity
- Motivation and modification of movement habits
- Thesis: The influence of social forces on sports referees’ decision making.
Details:
Email: joel.guerette [@] uqo.ca
Laurianne Côté
PhD candidate in Psychology
Laboratory coordinator
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Research interest:
- Effect of ethnicity and orientation of a face on steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP)
Details:
Email: cotl11@uqo.ca
Francis Gingras
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Recipient of NSERC scholarship (CGS-M)
Recipient of NSERC scholarship (PGS-D)
2nd place in NeurQAM’s popular science contest
Research interests:
- Cultural differences in visual representations of facial expression
- Thesis of Honor: Evaluating trustworthiness: differences in mental representations as a function of face ethnicity
Details:
Email: francis.gingras16 [@] gmail.com
Amélie Roberge
PhD candidate in Psychology – Research and Intervention (RI)
Département de psychologie , UQTR
Research interests:
- Facial expression recognition and underlying mechanisms
- Attentional resources and cognitive limits
- Impact of ethnicity and gender on facial expression processing
Guillaume Lalonde-Beaudoin
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Recipient of NSERC scholarship (PGS-D)
Research interests:
- Perceptual mechanisms underlying the face recognition process
- Learning process
Details:
Email: lalg06 [@] uqo.ca
Émilie St-Pierre
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
In co-direction with Annie Bérubé
Research interests:
- The impact of maltreatment on the conceptualization and perception of facial emotions
- The impact of language development on emotion recognition
- Neural representations of facial emotion categories
- The effect of traumatic experiences on physiological response
Details:
Email: stpe06@uqo.ca
Alexandre Cousineau
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
2nd place in NeurQAM’s popular science contest
2nd place in GNS’s popular science contest
Research interests:
- Cultural differences in the processing of spatial frequencies in face and object perception.
- Cultural differences in the processing of spatial orientations in face and object perception.
- The impact of the expertise effect on perceptual mechanisms in object recognition.
Details:
Email: coua77@uqo.ca