Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL DATA

Frédéric Gosselin
Département de psychologie
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montréal QC
H3C 3J7 Canada
Phone: (514) 343-7550
Fax: (514) 343-2285
Email: frederic.gosselin@umontreal.ca

Date of Birth: 10 January 1972
Citizenship: Canadian

POSITIONS

February 2009-March 2009: Visiting Scholar, Caltech

February-March 2008: Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Psychologie Perception

September 2007-September 2008: Visiting Scholar, Caltech

June 2006-present: Professeur agrégé (Associate Professor), Université de Montréal

March 2006-September 2006: Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain

August 2005: Visiting Scholar, Caltech

June, 2001-June, 2006: Professeur adjoint (Assistant Professor), Université de Montréal

EDUCATION

2006: Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR), France

1996-2000: Ph.D. Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK

1994-1996: M.Sc. Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Canada

1989-1993: B.A. Psychology, University of Ottawa, Canada

PUBLICATIONS

Special issue

1. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (Eds.) (2004). Rendering the use of visual information from spiking neurons to recognition. Special issue of Cognitive Science, 28, 141-301. [erratum; participants: J. M. Gold, pdf;  P. J. Bennett; A. B. Sekuler; F. Gosselin, pdf; C. Vinette, pdf; I. Biederman; M. Mangini, pdf; C. Olman, pdf; D. Kersten; D. Ringach, pdf; J. Sadr, pdf; R. Shapley; P. Sinha; P. G. Schyns; P. U. Tse, pdf]

Book chapters

6. Fiset, D., Blais, C., Arguin, M., Tadros, K., Éthier-Majcher, C., Bub, D., & Gosselin, F. (in press). The spatio-temporal dynamics of visual letter recognition. In Finkbeiner, M., & Coltheart, M. (Eds). The How, What, When and Where of Letter Identification: Evidence from Functional and Neural Perspectives. Macquarie Monographs series. [pdf; movies]

5. Fiset, D. & Gosselin, F. (2009). L’information visuelle efficace pour la reconnaissance des visages. In Barbeau, E., Jouvert, S., & Felician, O (Eds.). Traitement et reconnaissance des visages: du percept à la personne, (pp. 143-164). Paris: Solal. [pdf]

4. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2005). Bubbles: A user’s guide. In L. Gershkoff-Stowe & D. H. Rakison (Eds.) Building Object Categories in Developmental Time (pp. 91-106). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. [pdf]

3. McCabe, E., Blais, C. & Gosselin, F. (2005). Effective categorization of objects, scenes, and faces through time. In C. Lefebvre et H. Cohen (Eds.) Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science (pp. 767-791). Amsterdam: Elsevier. [pdf]

2. Schyns, P. G. & Gosselin, F. (2003).  Diagnostic use of scale information for componential and holistic recognition. In M. A. Peterson et G, Rhodes (Eds.) Perception of faces, objects, and scenes.  Analytic and holistic processes (pp 120-145). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

1. Gosselin, F., Archambault, A. & Schyns, P. G. (2001).  Interactions between taxonomic knowledge, categorization, and perception. In U. Hahn & M. Ramscar (Eds.) Similarity and categorization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

Journal articles (h-index ≥ 14)

59. Blais, C., Arguin, M. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). Visual oscillation fossils.

58. Butler, S. M., Blais, C., Gosselin, F., Bub, D. & Fiset, D. (submitted). Recognizing famous people.

57. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (submitted). Taxonomic knowledge can change the time course of scene perception. [pdf]

56. Gosselin, F., Spezio, M.L., Tranel, D. & Adolphs, R. (submitted). Asymmetrical use of eye information from faces following unilateral amygdala damage.

55. Hammal, Z., Kunz, M., Arguin, M. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). Spontaneous pain expression recognition in video sequences.

54. Jemel, B., Gosselin, F. & Mottron, L. (submitted). Broader tuning for facial information under categorical constraints in autism.

53. Lee, J., Gosselin, F., Wynn, J. K., & Green, M. F. (submitted). How do schizophrenia patients use visual information for decoding facial emotion?

52. Roy, S., Roy, C., Éthier-Majcher, C., Fortin, I. Belin, P., Gosselin, F. (submitted). STOIC: A database of dynamic and static faces expressing highly recognizable emotions. [pdf; STOIC]

51. Spezio, M.L., Loesch, L., Gosselin, F., Mattes, K, Alvarez, R. M. (submitted). Thin-slice decisions do not need faces to be predictive of election outcomes.

50. Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Rossion, B., Schyns, P. G. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). Interattribute distances do not represent the identity of real-world faces. [pdf; companion function]

49. Wang, H. F., Gosselin, F., Friel, N. & Schyns, P. G. (submitted). Efficient bubbles for visual categorization tasks.

48. Willenbockel, V., Sadr, J., Fiset, D., Horne, G., Gosselin, F. & Tanaka, J. W. (submitted). Controlling low-level image properties: The SHINE toolbox. [pdf; SHINE]

47. Collignon, O., Girard, S., Gosselin, F., Saint-Amour, D., Lepore, F. & Lassonde, M. (in press). Gender differences in the multisensory processing of emotion expressions. Neuropsychologia. [pdf]

46. Willenbockel, V., Fiset, D., Chauvin, A., Blais, C. Arguin, M., Tanaka, J., Bub, D. & Gosselin, F. (in press). Does face inversion change spatial frequency tuning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [pdf]

45. Blais, C., Fiset, D., Jolicoeur, P., Arguin, M., Bub, D. & Gosselin, F. (2009). Reading between eye saccades. PLoS ONE, 4(7), e6448, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006448. [html]

44. Dupuis-Roy, N., Fortin, I., Fiset, D., & Gosselin, F. (2009). Uncovering gender discrimination cues in a realistic setting. Journal of Vision, 9(2):10, 1-8, http://journalofvision.org/9/2/10/, doi:10.1167/9.2.10. [stimuli; press]

43. Fiset, D., Blais, C., Arguin, M., Tadros, K., Éthier-Majcher, C., Bub, D. & Gosselin, F. (2009). The spatio-temporal dynamics of visual letter recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 23-35. [pdf; movies]

42. Hammal, Z., Arguin, M., & Gosselin, F. (2009). Comparing a novel model based on the transferable belief model with humans during the recognition of partially occluded facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 9(2):22, 1-19, http://journalofvision.org/9/2/22/, doi:10.1167/9.2.22.

41. Perron, R., Lefebvre, C., Gosselin, F., Arguin, M. & Jolicœur, P. (2009). Attentional and anatomical considerations for the representation of simple stimuli in visual short-term memory: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychological Research, 73, 222–232. [pdf]

40. Predovan, D., Prime, D., Arguin, M., Gosselin, F., Dell'Acqua, R. & Jolicoeur, P. (2009). On the representation of words and nonwords in visual short-term memory: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychophysiology, 46, 191-199. [pdf]

39. Schyns, P., Gosselin, F., & Smith, M. L. (2009). Information processing algorithms in the brain. Trends in Cognitive Science, 13, 20-26. [pdf]

38. Smith, M. L., Fries, P., Goebel, R., Gosselin, F., & Schyns, P. G. (2009). Feature-driven decomposition of brain measurements—a novel approach to interpreting MEG brain activity during categorization tasks. Cerebral Cortex, 19,2428-2438. [pdf]

37. Belin, P., Fillion-Bilodeau, S. & Gosselin, F. (2008). The “Montreal Affective Voices”: a validated set of nonverbal affect bursts for research on auditory affective processing. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 531-539. [pdf; database]

36. Chamandy, N., Worsley, K.J., Taylor, J.E. & Gosselin, F. (2008). Tilted Euler characteristic densities for Central Limit random fields, with application to ‘bubbles’. Annals of Statistics, 36, 2471-2507. [pdf]

35. Collignon, O., Girard, S., Gosselin, F., Roy, S., Saint-Amour, D., Lassonde, M. & Lepore, F. (2008). Audio-visual integration of emotion expression. Brain Research, 1242, 126-135. [pdf]

34. Fiset, D., Blais, C., Éthier-Majcher, C., Arguin, M., Bub, D. & Gosselin, F. (2008). Features for uppercase and lowercase letter identification. Psychological Science, 19, 1161-1168. [pdf; Grainger et al.’s Review in TICS, pdf]

33. Simon, D., Craig, K. D., Gosselin, F., Belin, P. & Rainville, P. (2008). Recognition and discrimination of prototypical dynamic expressions of pain and emotions. Pain, 135, 55-64. [pdf; related cover]

32. Poirier, F. J. A. M., Gosselin, F. & Arguin, M. (2008). Perceptive fields of saliency. Journal of Vision, 8 (15): 14, 1-19, http://journalofvision.org/8/15/14/, doi:10.1167/8.15.14.

31. Smith, F. W., Muckli, L., Brennan, D., Pernet, C., Smith, M. L., Belin, P., Gosselin, F., Hadley, D. M., Cavanagh, J. & Schyns, P. G., (2008). Classification images reveal the information sensitivity of brain voxels in fMRI. NeuroImage, 40, 1643-1654. [pdf]

30. Dupuis-Roy, N. & Gosselin, F. (2007). Perceptual learning without signal. Vision Research, 47, 349-356. [pdf; figure 1, corrected]

29. Gibson, B., Lazareva, O. F., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P. G. & Wasserman, E. A. (2007). Non-accidental properties underlie shape recognition in mammalian and non-mammalian vision. Current Biology, 17, 336-340. [pdf; press; Nielsen & Rainer’s Dispatch in Current Biology, pdf]

28. Smith, M. L., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2007). From a face to its category via a few information processing states in the brain. NeuroImage, 37, 974-984. [pdf; NeuroImage: Cognitive Neuroscience Editors Choice Award 2008]

27. Taylor, J. E., Worsley, K. J. & Gosselin, F. (2007). Maxima discretely sampled random fields, with an application to ‘bubbles’. Biometrika, 94, 1-18. [pdf]

26. Fiset, D., Gosselin, F., Blais, C. & Arguin, M. (2006). Inducing letter-by-letter dyslexia in normal readers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1466-1476. [pdf; demo]

25. Humphreys, K., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P. G., & Johnson, M. H. (2006). Using “Bubbles” with babies: A new technique for investigating the informational basis of infant perception. Infant Behavior & Development, 29, 471–475. [pdf]

24. Joyce, C., Schyns, P. G., Gosselin, F., Cottrell, G. & Rossion, B. (2006). Early selection of facial diagnostic information in the human visual cortex. Vision Research, 46, 800-813. [pdf; cover]

23. Smith, M. L., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2006). Perceptual moments of conscious visual experience inferred from oscillatory brain activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 5626-5631. [pdf; cover proposal; press]

22. Adolphs, R., Gosselin, F., Buchanan, T. W., Tranel, D., Schyns, P. G. & Damasio, A. R. (2005). A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage. Nature, 433, 68-72. [pdf; supplementary information; cover (nth proposal); press; Vuilleumier’s News & Views in Nature, pdf]

21. Caldara, R., Rossion, B., Mayer, E., Smith, M., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2005). Does prosopagnosia take the eyes out from faces? Evidence for a defect in the use of diagnostic facial information in a single-case. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,17, 1-15. [pdf]

20. Chauvin, A., Worsley, K. J., Schyns, P. G., Arguin, M., & Gosselin, F. (2005). Accurate statistical tests for smooth classification images. Journal of Vision, 5 (9), 659-667, http://journalofvision.org/5/9/1/, doi:10.1167/5.9.1. [Stat4Ci; icon; Erdös number ≤ 5, via Keith J. Worsley]

19. Doucet, M.-E., Gosselin, F., Lassonde, M., Guillemot, J.-P. & Lepore, F. (2005). Developement of visual-evoked potentials to radially modulated concentric patterns. NeuroReport, 16, 1753-1756. [pdf; stimulus]

18. Gibson, B. M., Wasserman, E. A., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2005). Applying Bubbles to localize features that control pigeons’ visual discrimination behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 376-382. [pdf]

17. McCotter, M., Gosselin, F., Sowden, P. & Schyns, P. G. (2005). The use of visual information in natural scenes categorization. Visual Cognition, 12, 938-953. [pdf]

16. Smith, M., Cottrell, G., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2005). Transmitting and decoding facial expressions of emotions. Psychological Science, 16, 184-189 [pdf; stimuli]

15. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2004).  An image is worth thousands of trials: Rendering the use of visual information from spiking neurons to recognition. Cognitive Science, 28, 141-146. [pdf]

14. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2004).  No troubles with Bubbles: A reply to Murray and Gold. Vision Research, 44, 471-477. [pdf; Murray & Gold’s article, pdf; their reply to our reply, pdf]

13. Gosselin, F., Bacon, B. A. & Mamassian, P. (2004).  Internal surface representations approximated by reverse correlation. Vision Research, 44, 2515-2520. [pdf]

12. Smith, M. L., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G., (2004).  Receptive fields for flexible face categorizations. Psychological Science, 15, 753-761.  [pdf]

11. Vinette, C., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2004).  Spatio-temporal dynamics of face recognition in a flash:  It’s in the eyes! Cognitive Science, 28, 289-301. [pdf; website]

10. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2003).  Superstitious perceptions reveal properties of memory representations. Psychological Science, 14, 505-509. [pdf]

9. Schyns, P.G., Jentzsch, I., Johnson, M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Gosselin, F.  (2003).  A principled method for determining the functionality of ERP components. NeuroReport, 14, 1665-1669. [pdf]

8. Bonnar, L., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2002).  Understanding Dali's Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire: A case study in the scale information driving perception. Perception, 31, 683-691. [pdf]

7. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2002). RAP: a new framework for visual categorization. Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 70-77. [pdf]

6. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2002). You are about to see picturial representations! [Commentary on Z. Pylyshyn’s target article] Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 25, 191-192. [pdf]

5. Lamontagne, C., Gosselin, F. & Pivik, R. T. (2002). Sigma smooth pursuit eye tracking: constant k values revisited. Experimental Brain Research, 143, 130-133. [pdf]

4. Schyns, P. G., Bonnar, L. & Gosselin, F. (2002).  Show me the features! Understanding recognition from the use of visual information. Psychological Science, 13, 402-409. [pdf]

3. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2001).  Bubbles: A technique to reveal the use of information in recognition. Vision Research, 41, 2261-2271. [pdf; shop; other users]

2. Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2001).  Why do we SLIP to the basic-level? Computational constraints and their implementation. Psychological Review, 108, 735-758. [pdf; see also my Ph.D. thesis, pdf]

1. Gosselin, F. & Lamontagne, C. (1997).  Motion-blur illusions. Perception, 26, 847-855. [pdf; high-res figures]

MATLAB TOOLS

Stat4Ci

Align tools (OSX)

SHINE

LAB MEMBERS

Caroline Blais, M.Sc. (Psychology) (with Martin Arguin)

Nicolas Dupuis-Roy, M.Sc. (Psychology)

Catherine Ethier-Majcher, M. Sc. (Psychology)

Daniel Fiset, Ph.D. (Psychology) (with Martin Arguin)

Jude Leclerc, M.Sc. (Psychology)

Éric McCabe, B.A. (Biology), B.Sc. (Psychology) (with Martin Arguin)

Sylvain Roy, M.A. (Psychology) (with Boutheina Jemel)

Cynthia Roy, B.A. (Psychology) (with Pierre Rainville)

Karine Tadros, B.A. (Psychology) (with Martin Arguin)

Verena Willenbockel, M. Sc. (Psychology) (with Franco Lepore)

ALUMNI

Benoit Bacon, Post-doc. (with Jocelyn Faubert)

Alan Chauvin, Post-doc. (with Martin Arguin)

Zakia Hammal, Post-doc. (with Martin Arguin)

Frédéric Poirier, Ph.D. (Psychology) (with Martin Arguin)

Vincent Tascherau-Dumouchel, M.Sc. (Psychology)

Céline Vinette, M. Sc. (Psychology)

(Last update: 18 June 2009)