About
Simon Rigoulot is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal, affiliated with the Faculté des arts et des sciences. He holds dual appointments with the Centre de Recherche sur le Cerveau, la Langue et la Musique (CRBLM) and the BRAMS International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research. His work focuses on affective neuroscience, particularly the neural mechanisms underlying emotional perception in auditory and visual modalities. He employs EEG, MEG, and psychophysiological techniques to study how cultural background and individual differences influence emotional processing. Recent projects explore links between musical expertise and emotional competence, as well as the impact of regional accents on emotional prosody recognition.
- Education: PhD in Cognitive Sciences from Université de Lille (2008)
- Postdoctoral work at McGill University and under Dr. Simone Dalla Bella
- Director of the COGNAC lab (COGnition, Neuroscience, Affect et Comportement)
Research interests include: multimodal emotion integration, neural correlates of vocal and musical emotions, and the development of psychopathologies. He has supervised multiple master's theses on topics like neurostimulation-music mood effects and cultural influences on prosody perception.
Key grants include leadership in the CRBLM strategic research group (2017-2023) and collaborations with Quebec Bio-imaging Network projects. His lab actively seeks participants for studies exploring social neuroscience and emotion processing.
