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-March 2011: Visiting Associate in Psychology, Caltech

February-March 2010: Visiting Associate in Psychology, Caltech

February-March 2009: Visiting Associate in Psychology, Caltech

February-March 2008: Visiting Professor, Laboratoire Psychologie Perception

September 2007-September 2008: Visiting Associate in Psychology, Caltech

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

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

August 2005: Visiting Associate in Psychology, 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 & 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 & 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 ≥ 22; google scholar profile)

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

65. Dupuis-Roy, N. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). Why we can’t get no satisfaction with fair division solutions.

64. Hammal, Z., Gosselin, F., Peretz, I. & Hébert, S. (submitted). Music to my eyes: Spatial frequencies mediating music reading.

63. McCabe, É., Fiset, D., Arguin, M. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). The face inversion effect turned on its head.

62. Morin Duchesne, X., Gosselin, F., & Dupuis-Roy, N. (submitted). The internal representation of a letter comprises the figure but not the ground.

61. Poirier, F. J. A. M., Gosselin, F. & Arguin, M. (submitted). Subjectively homogeneous noise over written text as a tool to investigate the perceptual mechanisms involved in reading.

60. 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]

59. Tadros, K., Dupuis-Roy, N., Fiset, D., Arguin, M. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). Reading laterally: The cerebral hemispheric use of spatial frequencies in visual word recognition.

58. Willenbockel, V., Bacon, B.A., Lepore, F. & Gosselin, F. (submitted). Conscious and non-conscious face-gender priming stem from qualitatively different visual information.

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

56. Poirier, F. J. A. M., Gosselin, F. & Arguin, M. (2012). Clouds are not normal occluders, and other oddities: More interactions between textures and lightness illusions. Journal of Vision, 12(1):21, 1-22, http://journalofvision.org/12/1/21/, doi: 10.1167/12.1.21.

55. Smith, M. L., Gosselin, F., & Schyns, P.G. (2012). Measuring internal representations for behavioral and brain data. Current Biology, 22, 1-6, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.061. [pdf; supplementary information]

54. Gosselin, F., Spezio, M.L., Tranel, D. & Adolphs, R. (2011). Asymmetrical use of eye information from faces following unilateral amygdala damage. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 330-337. [pdf]

53. Lee, J., Gosselin, F., Wynn, J. K., & Green, M. F. (2011). How do schizophrenia patients use visual information for decoding facial emotion? Schizophrenia Bulletin, 37, 1001-1008. [pdf]

52. Prime, D., Dell'Acqua, R., Arguin, M., Gosselin, F. & Jolicœur, P. (2011). Spatial layout of letters in nonwords affects visual short-term memory load: Evidence from human electrophysiology. Psychophysiology, 48, 430-436. [pdf]

51. Wang, H. F., Friel, N., Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2011). Efficient bubbles for visual categorization tasks. Vision Research, 51, 1318-1323. [pdf]

50. Butler, S. M., Blais, C., Gosselin, F., Bub, D. & Fiset, D. (2010). Recognizing famous people. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 72, 1444-1449. [pdf]

49. Collignon, O.,Girard, S., Gosselin, F., Saint-Amour, D., Lepore, F. & Lassonde, M. (2010). Gender differences in the multisensory processing of emotion expressions. Neuropsychologia, 48, 220-225. [pdf]

48. Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Rossion, B., Schyns, P. G. & Gosselin, F. (2010). Interattribute distances do not represent the identity of real-world faces. Frontiers in Perception Science, 1, 159, 1-10, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00159. [pdf; alignTools]

47. Willenbockel, V., Fiset, D., Chauvin, A., Blais, C. Arguin, M., Tanaka, J., Bub, D. & Gosselin, F. (2010). Does face inversion change spatial frequency tuning? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36, 122-135. [pdf]

46. Willenbockel, V., Sadr, J., Fiset, D., Horne, G., Gosselin, F. & Tanaka, J. W. (2010). Controlling low-level image properties: The SHINE toolbox. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 671-684. [pdf; SHINE]

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 (n^th proposal); press; Vuilleumier’s News & Views, 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

alignTools

SHINE

LAB MEMBERS

Caroline Blais, M.Sc.

Naddley Désiré, B.A.

Nicolas Dupuis-Roy, M.Sc.

Catherine Ethier-Majcher, M. Sc.

Éric McCabe, B.A.

Cynthia Roy, B.A.