Experts in: Cerebral and cognitive development
ARGUIN, Martin
Professeur titulaire
- Attention
- Vision
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Lecture
- Object recognition
- Cognitive neuropsychology
- Cognitive training
- Visual attention
- Visual System
- Visual pathologies
- Visual processing
- Cerebral and cognitive development
- Cognitive intervention
- Cognitive neuroimaging
- Developmental sensory and cognitive disorders
- Brain hemispheres
- Neuroimaging
- Cerebral plasticity
- Traumatisme craniocérébral
- Electrophysiology (EEG)
- Magnetoencephalography and Electroencephalography
- Shape recognition
- Face recognition
- Attention deficit disorders
My research activities focus on the cognitive aspects of visual processing, in both normal individuals and those who have suffered brain injuries. My main objectives are to identify the normal mechanisms involved in visual processing and to characterize the functional deficits resulting from brain damage. I use behavioural and electrophysiological methods. My current projects concern a number of themes:
- Reading: visual mechanisms (i.e. shape perception and visuospatial attention) involved in accessing orthographic-lexical knowledge when recognizing written words, and organization of the lexical representation system
- Visual recognition of objects: properties of the system for encoding visual shapes and representation of structural knowledge
BOLLER, Benjamin
Professeur associé
COURCHESNE, Valérie
Professeure adjointe
DALLA BELLA, Simone
Professeur titulaire
- Cognitive neuroscience of hearing and music
- Brain and music
- Musical cognition
- Music
- Circadian rhythms and performance
- Auditory neuroscience
- Réadaptation
- Motricity
- Cerebral and cognitive development
- Cognitive training
- Cognitive intervention
- Cognitive neuroimaging
- Cognitive neuropsychology
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Mild cognitive impairment
- Developmental sensory and cognitive disorders
GALLAGHER, Anne
Professeure titulaire
- Neuropsychologie
- Cerebral and cognitive development
- Neuroimaging
- Language
- Electrophysiology (EEG)
- Optical imaging (NIRS)
- Newborns, children and teenagers
- Congenital heart disease
- Epilepsy
- Prematurity
- Learning disorders - Learning disabilities
- Child development
- Language acquisition
My current research mainly concerns the cognitive and cerebral effects of different pediatric diseases and syndromes, such as epilepsy, infantile spasms, tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), prematurity and congenital cardiac anomalies. In the laboratory, I use neuropsychological assessment and neuroimaging (optical imaging (NIRS), electroencephalography) and magnetoencephalography (MEG)) to better understand these pathologies and their impact on brain development, identify predictive markers for certain related disorders or developmental prognostics and develop pre-surgical assessment techniques suitable for use with these populations.
GOSSELIN, Nadia
Professeure titulaire
PERETZ, Isabelle
Professeure titulaire
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Neuroimaging
- Amusia
- Brain and music
- Musical cognition
- Emotions
- Musique et Langage
- Cerebral and cognitive development
- Affect mentalization
- Language
- Language acquisition
- Memory
- Autism
- Cognitive neuroimaging
- Electrophysiology (EEG)
- Magnetic-resonance imaging
My field of research is cognitive neuropsychology. The approach is characterized by the study of the effects of brain lesions on cognitive functions. I am interested in musical perception and recognition; emotions; language; prosody; and memory. These functions all have a link with musical cognition, which remains my main field of interest. Aside from brain lesions, we also work with neurologically healthy adults or those with a specific congenital disorder (autism, congenital amusia). Lastly, we use various exploration techniques including, currently, event-related potential (ERP) responses, neuroimaging by magnetic resonance and electrodermal responses. Our team has access to two laboratories: one in the psychology department, in the GRENE research centre, and the other at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. I receive financial support for my research work from the NSERC and the CIHR (MRC) and from the FCAR and FRSQ.