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Isabelle Blanchette

ResearcherCross-cultural PsychologyUniversité Laval

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Isabelle Blanchette

Researcher

Cross-cultural Psychology

Social Sciences and Humanities

Université Laval

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 12 research grants (8 SSHRC, 4 NSERC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Cognition émotions stress biais émotionnel interprétation raisonnement Executive functions Africa

Latest papers

EXPRESS: Listen to Africa: nothing about us without us.
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026
Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026 · senior author
Measuring working memory in contexts of high adversity: Using the digit span in North Kivu.
African journal of psychological assessment · 2025 · first author

All 20 publications

Latest funding

Différences individuelles dans l'impact des événements potentiellement traumatiques : Rôle du raisonnement, de la mémoire et des croyances
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$308,401
Advancing Family Wellbeing through a Massive Open Online Intervention: The LightBEAM Program
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$91,687
neurocognition des émotions et du trauma
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$50,000

All 15 grants and awards

20 publications.

EXPRESS: Listen to Africa: nothing about us without us.

Oyekola A, Ezeugwu C, Ndyareeba E, Clay Z, Blumenthal A, Cook C, Blanchette I, Draper C, Milosavljevic B, Lloyd-Fox S

Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2026

DOI: 10.1177/17470218261490127 PMID: 42717403

Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Thiffault F, Brisson B, Blanchette I

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsag063 PMID: 42549900

Measuring working memory in contexts of high adversity: Using the digit span in North Kivu.

Blanchette I, Bakulikira BB, Ingabire MC, Kankunda Moket E, Caparos S

African journal of psychological assessment2025First author

DOI: 10.4102/ajopa.v7i0.177 PMID: 41070233

Pupil dilation evoked by painful electrical stimulation is abolished during pain inhibition by distraction.

Wagenaar-Tison A, Deldar Z, Bergeron A, Provencher B, Northon S, Rustamov N, Blanchette I, Sirois S, Piché M

The journal of physiological sciences : JPS2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jphyss.2025.100026 PMID: 40409165

Mothers' psychopathology and their adult offspring's cortisol level in a Rwandan sample.

Ingabire MC, Caparos S, Rutembesa E, Blanchette I

The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa2025Senior author

DOI: 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v31i0.2410 PMID: 40469810

Music Perception in Older Adults With Hearing Loss: Protective Effect of Musical Experience.

Whittom A, Chauvette L, Bégin A, Blanchette I, Tremblay P, Sharp A

Ear and hearing2025

DOI: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001615 PMID: 39648322

Do emotionally negative events impair working memory as a result of intrusive thoughts?

Chouinard-Gaouette L, Blanchette I

Memory (Hove, England)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2025.2461153 PMID: 39915282

Understanding the structure of autobiographical memories: A study of trauma memories from the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Blumenthal A, Caparos S, Blanchette I

Memory & cognition2024Senior author

DOI: 10.3758/s13421-024-01565-0 PMID: 38693323

Hearing fearful prosody impairs visual working memory maintenance.

Thiffault F, Cinq-Mars J, Brisson B, Blanchette I

International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112338 PMID: 38552908

An investigation of the mechanisms underlying the link between abstract reasoning and intrusive memories: A trauma analogue study.

Chouinard-Gaouette L, Blanchette I

Consciousness and cognition2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103609 PMID: 38029701

Différences individuelles dans l'impact des événements potentiellement traumatiques : Rôle du raisonnement, de la mémoire et des croyances

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

$308,401

Advancing Family Wellbeing through a Massive Open Online Intervention: The LightBEAM Program

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Roos, Leslie E.

Keywords: wellbeing; families; parenting; child development; intervention science

$91,687

neurocognition des émotions et du trauma

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

$50,000

Aging of spoken language production in singers and non-singers

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tremblay, Pascale

Keywords: aging; language production; speech production; singing; musical activity; voice production; cognitive aging; cognition

$52,368

Catalyzing cognition research in Africa: A novel approach to methods development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

Keywords: Executive functions; Africa; Adversity; Child development; Cognition; Methods Development; Cross-cultural psychology; Psychometrics; Underrepresented Populations; Diversity

$36,454

Catalyzing cognition research in Africa: A novel approach to methods development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

Keywords: Executive functions; Africa; Adversity; Child development; Cognition; Methods Development; Cross-cultural psychology; Psychometrics; Underrepresented Populations; Diversity

$30,007

How does higher level cognition affect emotion? Neurophysiological and behavioral investigations

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

Keywords: Attention; Cognition; Emotion; Reasoning; Strategies; Symbolic thinking; Working Memory

$330,000

How does higher level cognition affect emotion? Neurophysiological and behavioral investigations

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Accelerator Supplements

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

$120,000

Comment les événements de vie hautement émotifs affectent-ils le fonctionnement psychologique

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

Keywords: émotions; stress; cognition; biais émotionnel; interprétation; raisonnement

$373,406

Violence politique et fonctionnement psychologique dans la région des Grands Lacs Africains

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Blanchette, Isabelle

Keywords: violence politique; trauma; santé psychologique; fonctionnement cognitif; attitude; paix

$194,256

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Isabelle Blanchette

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

EXPRESS: Listen to Africa: nothing about us without us.

Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Measuring working memory in contexts of high adversity: Using the digit span in North Kivu.

Pupil dilation evoked by painful electrical stimulation is abolished during pain inhibition by distraction.

Mothers' psychopathology and their adult offspring's cortisol level in a Rwandan sample.

Music Perception in Older Adults With Hearing Loss: Protective Effect of Musical Experience.

Do emotionally negative events impair working memory as a result of intrusive thoughts?

Understanding the structure of autobiographical memories: A study of trauma memories from the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Hearing fearful prosody impairs visual working memory maintenance.

An investigation of the mechanisms underlying the link between abstract reasoning and intrusive memories: A trauma analogue study.

Différences individuelles dans l'impact des événements potentiellement traumatiques : Rôle du raisonnement, de la mémoire et des croyances

Advancing Family Wellbeing through a Massive Open Online Intervention: The LightBEAM Program

neurocognition des émotions et du trauma

Aging of spoken language production in singers and non-singers

Catalyzing cognition research in Africa: A novel approach to methods development

Catalyzing cognition research in Africa: A novel approach to methods development

How does higher level cognition affect emotion? Neurophysiological and behavioral investigations

How does higher level cognition affect emotion? Neurophysiological and behavioral investigations

Comment les événements de vie hautement émotifs affectent-ils le fonctionnement psychologique

Violence politique et fonctionnement psychologique dans la région des Grands Lacs Africains

Frequent collaborators

Pascale Tremblay