Étudiant·es au Ph.D.

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Jérémy Lamontagne

PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
uOttawa entrance scholarship
uOttawa Merit Scholarship
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Recipient of the Research Scholarship FRQNT (B1X)

Research interests:

  • Honour thesis: The N250 as an index of visual information extraction in faces.

Details:
Email: lamj54@uqo.ca

Émilie St-Pierre

PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
In co-direction with Annie Bérubé
Recipient of NSERC scholarship (PGS-D)

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
  • PhD thesis: The impact of maltreatment on the conceptualization and perception of facial emotions

Details:
Email: stpe06@uqo.ca

Alex 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.
  • Honour thesis: The Impact of Culture on the Processing of Spatial Frequencies during the Recognition of Homogenous Objects.

Details:
Email: coua77@uqo.ca

Arianne Richer

PhD candidate in Psychology
Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO
Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award
Recipient of NSERC scholarship (PGS-D)

Research interest:

  • The time course of neural mechanisms underlying visual perception of faces.
  • Mental and neural representations of facial expressions of pain.
  • Honour thesis: Size of the perceptual window used for optimal face processing.
  • PhD thesis: Mental representations and temporal dynamics of social and emotional processing of faces.

Details:
Email: rica30@uqo.ca

Laurianne Côté

PhD candidate in Psychology

Département de psychologie et psychoéducation, UQO

Recipient of NSERC’s Undergraduate Student Research Award

Recipient of the Research Scholarship FRQNT (B1X)

Research interest:

  • The effect of ethnicity and face orientation on SSVEP amplitude.
  • The effect of image decomposition on SSVEP signal amplitude.
  • Mechanisms of feature processing.
  • The usefulness of different facial parts in gender categorization, emotion categorization and identification tasks.
  • Individual differences of the electrophysiological signal in face part processing.
  • Investigation of spatial frequencies and information used for face detection vs. identification.
  • Impact of the Other Race Effect (ORE) on emotion and gender categorization in electrophysiology.
  • Honour thesis: Effect of face ethnicity on visual evoked potentials in periodic presentation.

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
  • Honour thesis: Evaluating trustworthiness: differences in mental representations as a function of face ethnicity
  • PhD thesis: Impact of culture on the visual processing of social and non-social objects

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