Curriculum
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PERSONAL DATA

FrŽdŽric Gosselin
DŽpartement de psychologie
UniversitŽ de MontrŽal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
MontrŽal 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 agrŽgŽ (Associate Professor), UniversitŽ de MontrŽal
March
2006-September 2006: Visiting Professor, UniversitŽ
Catholique de Louvain
August
2005: Visiting Scholar, Caltech
June,
2001-June, 2006: Professeur adjoint (Assistant Professor), UniversitŽ de MontrŽal
EDUCATION
2006:
Habilitation ˆ Diriger les Recherches (HDR), France
1996-2000:
Ph.D. Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
1994-1996:
M.Sc. Psychologie, UniversitŽ de MontrŽal,
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., ƒthier-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). LÕinformation visuelle efficace pour la
reconnaissance des visages. In Barbeau, E., Jouvert, S., & Felician, O
(Eds.). Traitement et reconnaissance des visages: du percept ˆ la personne,
(pp. 143-164). Paris: Solal. [pdf]
4.
Gosselin, F. & Schyns, P. G. (2005).
Bubbles: A userÕs 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
³ 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., ƒthier-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., ƒthier-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. & JolicÏur, 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 ÒMontreal
Affective VoicesÓ: 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 ÔbubblesÕ. 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., ƒthier-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.Õs 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 & RainerÕs 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 ÔbubblesÕ. 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
ÒBubblesÓ 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;
VuilleumierÕs 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; Erdšs number ² 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 pigeonsÕ 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 & GoldÕs 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: ItÕs 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.
PylyshynÕs 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
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)
ƒric
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)
FrŽdŽric
Poirier, Ph.D. (Psychology) (with Martin Arguin)
Vincent
Tascherau-Dumouchel, M.Sc. (Psychology)
CŽline
Vinette, M. Sc. (Psychology)
(Last
update: 18 June 2009)