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Caroline Blais
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Research
Latest papers
The eyes are central to face detection: revisiting the foundations of face processing.
Vision research · 2026
Cultural differences in spatial frequency tunings to faces do not generalize to visual scenes and object stimuli.
Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025 · senior author
Childhood maltreatment influences parental mimicry of children's emotional facial expressions.
Child abuse & neglect · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $75,000
Cognitive and Social Vision
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $148,422
Impact de la culture de l'observateur et de l'ethnie d'appartenance d'un visage sur le traitement de l'intensité des expressions faciales d'émotions
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $31,928
Impact de la culture de l'observateur et de l'ethnie d'appartenance d'un visage sur le traitement de l'intensité des expressions faciales d'émotions
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
33 publications.
The eyes are central to face detection: revisiting the foundations of face processing.
Côté L, Lamontagne J, Bellerose A, Blais C, Fiset D
Cultural differences in spatial frequency tunings to faces do not generalize to visual scenes and object stimuli.
Gingras F, Fiset D, Plouffe-Demers MP, Estéphan A, N'Guiamba M, Sun D, Zhang Y, Blais C
Childhood maltreatment influences parental mimicry of children's emotional facial expressions.
Bérubé A, Pétrin R, Boudreault M, Marcotte-Beaumier G, Blais C
Conducting online visual psychophysics experiments: A replication assessment of two face processing studies.
Blais C, Fiset D, Côté L, Ledrou-Paquet V, Charbonneau I
Stroke features in the Chinese character recognition.
Luo F, Zhang Y, Liang W, Blais C, Plouffe Demers MP, Fiset D, Sun D, Chen B
Stress and emotion recognition predict the relationship between a history of maltreatment and sensitive parenting behaviors: A moderated-moderation.
Bérubé A, Pearson J, Blais C, Forget H
Parental depression moderates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and the recognition of children expressions of emotions.
Bérubé A, Pétrin R, Blais C
Maternal childhood emotional abuse increases cardiovascular responses to children's emotional facial expressions.
Pétrin R, Bérubé A, St-Pierre É, Blais C
The Relationship Between the Ability to Infer Another's Pain and the Expectations Regarding the Appearance of Pain Facial Expressions: Investigation of the Role of Visual Perception.
Lévesque-Lacasse A, Desjardins MC, Fiset D, Charbonneau C, Cormier S, Blais C
Differences in eye movements for face recognition between Canadian and Chinese participants are not modulated by social orientation.
Gingras F, Estéphan A, Fiset D, Lingnan H, Caldara R, Blais C
Cognitive and Social Vision
Principal investigators: Blais, Caroline
Keywords: Face processing; Facial expression recognition; Psychophysics; Eye movements; Cultural psychology
Impact de la culture de l'observateur et de l'ethnie d'appartenance d'un visage sur le traitement de l'intensité des expressions faciales d'émotions
Principal investigators: Blais, Caroline
Keywords: expressions faciales; émotions; douleur; perception visuelle; différences culturelle; préjugés raciaux
Impact de la culture de l'observateur et de l'ethnie d'appartenance d'un visage sur le traitement de l'intensité des expressions faciales d'émotions
Principal investigators: Blais, Caroline
Keywords: expressions faciales; émotions; douleur; perception visuelle; différences culturelle; préjugés raciaux
Toi, mon coco, perçois-tu ce que je ne perçois pas? Le rôle de la perception des émotions dans la transmission intergénérationnelle de la maltraitance
Principal investigators: Bérubé, Annie
Keywords: maltraitance; transmission intergénérationnelle; émotions
Impact de l'ethnie, du racisme et de la déshumanisation sur les mécanismes visuels et cérébraux impliqués dans le traitement des visages
Principal investigators: Fiset, Daniel
Keywords: ethnie; perception des visages; perception de la douleur; vision; électroencéphalographie; racisme; déshumanisation
Impact de l'ethnie, du racisme et de la déshumanisation sur les mécanismes visuels et cérébraux impliqués dans le traitement des visages
Principal investigators: Fiset, Daniel
Keywords: ethnie; perception des visages; perception de la douleur; vision; électroencéphalographie; racisme; déshumanisation
Toi, mon coco, perçois-tu ce que je ne perçois pas? Le rôle de la perception des émotions dans la transmission intergénérationnelle de la maltraitance
Principal investigators: Bérubé, Annie
Keywords: maltraitance; transmission intergénérationnelle; émotions
Impact of the visual and sociocultural environment on the processing of low-level visual information during face perception
Principal investigators: Blais, Caroline
Keywords: visual perception; face perception; culture; psychophysics; electoencephalography
Cognitive and Social Vision
Principal investigators: Blais, Caroline
Cognitive and Social Vision
Principal investigators: Blais, Caroline
Keywords: Visual perception; Face processing; Emotion; Cultural ; psychology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Caroline Blais and Daniel Fiset: 26 shared papers
- Dave Saint-Amour and Caroline Blais: 1 shared paper
- Dave Saint-Amour and Daniel Fiset: 1 shared paper
- Caroline Blais and Francis Gingras: 1 shared paper
- Caroline Blais and Jessica Pearson: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Fiset and Francis Gingras: 1 shared paper
- Cross-cultural Psychology
- Psychoéducation et Psychologie
- Département de psychologie
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Other
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