Louise Kauffmann

Louise Kauffmann is an Associate Professor at Grenoble Alpes University (UGA) in the Laboratory of Psychology and Neurocognition (LPNC), where she conducts research on visual perception and cognitive neuroscience. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences and has established herself as a leading researcher in visual perception, eye-tracking, and cognitive neurosciences.

Education:

• PhD in Cognitive Psychology, LPNC (2012-2015)
• Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany (2016-2018)
• Postdoc "NeuroCoG", GipsaLab/LPNC, UGA (2018-2019)

Dr. Kauffmann's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying visual perception and recognition of complex visual stimuli such as scenes, faces, and objects. She investigates how low-level characteristics of sensory inputs are used to achieve efficient recognition and how this process is modulated by prior knowledge and expectations about the visual environment. Her work employs complementary techniques including psychophysics, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging. Her primary research axes include the influence of predictive processes on subjective visual perception, the use of eye movements to investigate cognitive functioning, neurocognitive mechanisms underlying visual scene categorization, and mapping functional roles of visual subcortical structures.

Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on predictive processing in visual perception, with particular attention to how contextual information and prior knowledge influence visual processing. Her work spans multiple domains including normal visual processing, visual impairments in aging, and neurological disorders such as autism spectrum disorders and developmental dyslexia. She frequently collaborates with researchers across France and internationally, particularly with institutions in Germany and Belgium.

Dr. Kauffmann has received funding from prestigious organizations including the French National Research Agency (ANR-22-CE28-0021-01 "EXPER") and the CDP-NeuroCoG-IDEX of the University of Grenoble Alpes.

She currently supervises several doctoral students including Clara Carrez-Corral (2023-2026), Pauline Rossel (2020-2023), and Chuyao Wang (2022-2026), often in co-supervision with other researchers at LPNC and collaborating institutions. Her research group is part of the LPNC laboratory, which is a CNRS UMR 5105 research unit focused on psychology and neurocognition.

Dr. Kauffmann is actively involved in the academic community, serving as the Pedagogical coordinator of the Licence 3 of Psychology since 2022 and as Coordinator for International relations at UFR SHS since 2021. She is also a member of the Organizing committee for the "Semaine du cerveau" and an elected member of scientific boards at LPNC, UFR SHS, and CSPM H3S.