PhD students

Research Assistant and Lab Coordinator
PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award

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

PhD candidate in Psychology 
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM

Research interests:
. Low-level image properties (spatial frequency, orientation).
. Face perception (identity, facial expressions).

 

Details:

Email: justin.duncan [@] mail.mcgill.ca

PhD candidate in Psychology 
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO

Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award

Research interests :

. Perceptual mechanisms underlying the face recognition process
. Learning process

 

Details:

Email: lalg06 [@] uqo.ca

PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Recipient of the Research Scholarship FRQNT (B1) and the SSHRC Scholarship (CGS M)

Research interests:
. The impact of ethnic bias on perceptive mechanisms and behaviors.
. The impact of culture on the perceptual mechanism and mental representation of the facial expression of pain.
. Honour thesis: Perceptive mechanisms underlying the processing of static and dynamic facial expressions.

 

Details:

Email: plom09 [@] uqo.ca

PhD candidate in Psychology 
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM

Research interests:
. The impact of culture on attentional and perceptive processes. Specifically the differences between Westerners and Easterners pertaining to visual information extraction and integration mechanisms.
. The time course of the formation of perceptive representation in both cultures.
. The contributions of the genetic and the environment to the visual and cognitive strategies underlying the recognition of natural objects

 

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Email: esta01 [@] uqo.ca

PhD candidate in Psychology 
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Département de psychologie, UQAM
Récipiendaire de la bourse de recherche FQRSC

Research interests :
.The impact of cognitive bias on decision making in sports
. The effect of perceptual learning methods and perceptual-cognitive training
. Thesis of Honor: Shouting at the referee helps your team win

 

Details:

Email: joelguerette [@] hotmail.com

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