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Caroline Blais is a full Professor at the University of Quebec in Outaouais (UQO) in the Department of Psychoeducation and Psychology. She leads the Visual and Social Perception Laboratory and holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive and Social Vision (Tier 1). Her research examines how sociocultural factors influence visual and cognitive processes, particularly focusing on face perception, emotional expression recognition, and cross-cultural differences in visual processing.
Her work spans topics like cultural variability in pain facial expression decoding, the impact of childhood maltreatment on parenting behaviors, and neural mechanisms underlying face recognition. Key contributions include studies on spatial frequency utilization in face identification and the role of visual strategies in emotion perception. She has published extensively in journals such as Psychological Science, Journal of Pain, and Development and Psychopathology.
- Research Focus: Cultural influences on visual perception, emotion recognition, face processing neurocognition.
- Awards: Canada Research Chair (Tier 1).
Her research integrates behavioral experiments, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to address real-world applications in healthcare, policing, and education. Recent projects explore how perceptual biases affect decision-making in contexts like sports officiating and clinical pain assessment.
