CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Rossion Bruno
Born: 15th December 1973
Citizenship: Belgian
Homepage: http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com/people/bruno-rossion/
Education:
1996-2000 PhD in Psychology (Experimental Psychology), Universite catholique de Louvain. ‘Summa Cum Laude’
1993-1996 Master Degree in Psychology, Universite catholique de Louvain. ‘Summa Cum Laude’
1991-1993 BA in Psychology: Universite catholique de Louvain‘Magna Cum Laude’
Experience:
1996-2000 PhD student (supported by Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, FNRS), supervisors : Prs. M. Crommelinck and R. Bruyer, Unite de Neuropsychologie Cognitive, and Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Universite Catholique de Louvain.
2000-2002 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University (USA). Supervisor: Pr. Michael J. Tarr.
2002-2004 Senior researcher, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit (NESC) and laboratory of Neurophysiology (NEFY), Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
October 2004- Research Associate (Belgian FNRS, permanent position), Cognitive Development Research Unit (CODE), University of Louvain, Belgium. 2012: Master of Research; 2016: Director of Research.
Complementary positions (associated researcher)
- University of Maastricht, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, The Netherlands.
- Centre de Recherche en Automatique (CRAN) and University Hospital (CHU) of Nancy, Université de Lorraine, France.
Scientific Distinctions & Awards:
Individual Award from the Royal Belgian Academy (Prix “Dubois-Debauque”) for outstanding contributions in Human Electrophysiology (award given every 4 years, 2010-2013)
ERC Starting Grant 2011 (consolidator scheme) “understanding the mechanisms of face recognition: new insights from steady-state evoked potentials” (1500k€, 2012-2017).
Member of the International Neuropsychological Symposium (INS, elected 2011)
Individual Award from the Queen Elisabeth Fundation for Medical Research (FMRE), 2008, Belgium, for scientific contribution to the functional neuroanatomy of human face recognition (“Prix Baron van Gysel de Meise pour les Neurosciences”, 2008).
Winner of the Fifth Samuel Sutton Award for Early Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Human ERPs and Cognition, Evoked Potentials International Conference XIV, Leipzig, 2004.
Gerard de Montpellier award of the best graduation thesis for 1996-1997 and 1997-1998. University of Louvain.
Nominee (i.e., among the 5 best) for the award of the best graduation thesis of Belgium for 1996- 1997. Belgian Society of Psychology.
Research interests:
Main: face perception
Others: Object and scene categorization, colour perception, blindsight, cross-modal integration
Journals:
Action/handling Editor: Brain & Cognition (2008-2010);
Brain Topography (2014-);
2016: Guest editor for a special issue on Neurofunctional specificity, Neuropsychologia.
Consulting editor: Visual Cognition (2005-2015)
Ad-hoc reviewer for: Acta Psychologica, American Journal of Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Research, Behavior Research Methods, Behavioral and
Brain Function, Biological Letters, Brain, Brain & Cognition, British Journal of Psychology, Child Development, Cerebral Cortex, Clinical Genetics, Cognition, Cognitive Brain Research, Cognitive Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, European Journal of Neuroscience, Experimental Brain Research, Experimental Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Ethology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Process, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Vision, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Nature Human Behavior, NeuroImage, Neurology, Neuron, Neuroreport, Neuropsychologia, Neuroscience, Perception, Perception and Psychophysics, PLOSOne, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Bulletin & Review, Psychological Research, Psychological Science, Psychophysiology, Social Neuroscience, Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vision Research, Visual Cognition. (about 55 journals, 20-25 papers reviewed/year on average over the past 15 years).
Conference Abstract Board of Reviewers: Vision Science Society Annual Meeting (VSS, 2000 members): since 2011; European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), annual meeting (2011-2013).
Active grant reviewer for:
ESRC, MRC, Levrhulme Trust. (UK); NSF, NIH (USA); European Research Council (ERC, Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants), FP7, panel SH4 "The human mind and its complexity" and panel SH3 “The Social World, Diversity, Population”; FWO, Flanders ; Israël National Science Fundation, Israël; Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France).
Member of the evaluation committee for the Belgian National Research Fund (FNRS, projects and fellowships), SVS3-Neuroscience: 2013, 2014.
Teaching:
2004-2007: “Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars” (PSP2640), Univ. Louvain (20h/year)
2008-2013: “Complements in Neuroscience” (3rd master Psychology, PSYM2541) Univ. Louvain (30h/year)
2014-ongoing: “Cognitive Neuroscience” (WSBIM2153). Biomedical Sciences, 8h/year 2004-ongoing: Master degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology, University of Lille 3, 6 h/year.
METHODS AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
- Behavioral studies, neuropsychological case studies (visual agnosia and prosopagnosia), functional neuroimaging (PET and fMRI), event-related potentials (ERPs), eye movement recordings.
- Data acquisition and processing: SPM, Brain Voyager QX; EEG/ERP: Neuroscan, EEProbe, ASA, Brain Vision Analyzer, Letswave.
- Operating systems : MacOs X, Windows, RHL Linux
- Graphism: Photoshop, Debabelizer , Illustrator, Morph, …
- Stimulations: Superlab Pro, ERTS, STIM for Scan, Psyscope, E-prime.
Collaborations and international references:
Main:
Pr. A.-M. Norcia & K. Grill-Spector, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA
Steady-state visual evoked potentials of face perception; neuroimaging of brain-damaged patients
Pr. R. Goebel, Maastricht University and F.C. Donders center of neuroimaging, The Netherlands
Neuro-functional anatomy of face perception by combining neuroimaging and prosopagnosia
Pr. L. Maillard, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
Intracerebral Recordings and stimulation of the ventral visual stream in epileptic patients.
Pr. C. Schiltz, Head of the Cognitive Science and Assessment (COSA) institute, University of Luxemburg. Interindividual variability and development of face and letterstrings processing.
Pr. Q. Vuong, Department of Psychology, Newcastle University, UK.
Visual expertise in object and face recognition
Pr. M. Webster & F. Jiang, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno
Other international previous and present collaborators :
F. Simion, C. Turati (University of Padova, Italy), D. Bub (University of Victoria, Canada); R. Caldara (University of Glasgow, UK); C. Joyce (UCSD, USA); F. Gosselin, S. Joubert (Universite de Montreal, Canada); S. Quadflieg (University of New York, Abu Dhabi); V. Goffaux (Maastricht University andUCL); V. Blanz (The University of Siegen, Germany); J. Steeves (York University, Ca); K. Weiner, Stanford University, USA.
Other collaborations in Belgium:
P. Lefèvre, E. Olivier, O. Corneille, D. Samson, V. Goffaux, A. Ivanoiu (UCL); A. Cleeremans, P. Peigneux, R. Kolinsky (ULB); K. Verfaillie, J. Wagemans, R. Vogels, W. Vanduffel (KUL).
Publications:
Peer-reviewed articles (international journals)
1. Rossion, B., Campanella, S., Gomez, C., Delinte, A., Debatisse, D., Liard, L., Dubois, S., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M. and Guerit, J.-M. (1999). Task Modulation of Brain Activity Related to Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Processing: an ERP Study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 110, 449-462.
2. Rossion, B., Delvenne, J.-F., Debatisse, D., Goffaux, V., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M. and Guerit, J.-M. (1999). Spatio-temporal brain localization of the face inversion effect. Biological Psychology, 50, 173-189.
3. Dubois, S., Rossion, B., Schiltz, C., Bodart, J.-M., Dejardin, S., Michel, C., Bruyer, R. and Crommelinck, M. (1999). Effect of familiarity on the processing of human faces. Neuroimage, 9, 278-289.
4. Campanella, S, Gomez, C, Rossion, B., Delinte, A., Debatisse, D., Liard, L., Dubois, S., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M. and Guerit, J.-M. (1999). Etude comparative en potentiels evoques des donnees fournies par le biais d’analyses de groupes et individuelles. Neurophysiologie Clinique, 29, 325-338.
5. Rossion, B., Gauthier, I., Tarr, M.J., Despland, P.A., Bruyer, R., Linotte, S., Crommelinck, M. (2000). The N170 occipito-temporal component is enhanced and delayed to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: an electrophysiological account of face-specific processes in the human brain. Neuroreport, 11, 69-74.
6. Rossion, B., de Gelder , B., Pourtois, G., Guerit, J-M., Weiskrantz, L. (2000). Early extrastriate activity without V1 in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 279/1, 25-28.
7. Pourtois, G., de Gelder, B., Vroomen, J., Rossion, B., Crommelinck, M. (2000). The time-course of intermodal binding between seeing and hearing affective information. Neuroreport, 11, 1329-1333.
8. Rossion, B., de Gelder, B., Dricot, L., Zoontjes, R., De Volder, A., Bodart, J.-M., Crommelinck, M. (2000). Hemispheric asymmetries for whole-based and parts-based face processing in the human fusiform gyrus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 793-802.
9. Rossion, B., Bodart, J.M., Pourtois, G., Thioux, M., Bol, A., Cosnard, G., Georges, B., Michel, C., De Volder, A.G. (2000). Functional imaging of visual semantic processing in the human brain. Cortex, 36, 579- 591.
10. Campanella, S, Hanoteau, C., Depy, D., Rossion, B., Crommelinck, M., Bruyer, R., Guerit, J-M. (2000). Right N170 modulation in a face discrimination task: An account for categorical perception of familiar faces. Psychophysiology, 37, 796-806.
11. Rossion, B., Schiltz, C., Robaye, L., Pirenne, D., Crommelinck, M. (2001) How does the brain discriminate familiar and unfamiliar faces: a PET study of face categorical perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 1019-1034.
12. Campanella, S., Joassin, F., Rossion, B., Devolder, A., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M. (2001). Associations of the distinct representations of faces and names : A PET study. Neuroimage, 14, 873-882.
13. Schuller, A.M.& Rossion, B. (2001). Spatial attention triggered by eye gaze increases and speeds up early visual activity. Neuroreport, 12, 2381-2386.
14. Rossion, B., Gauthier, I. (2002). How does the brain process upright and inverted faces ? Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 1, 63-75.
15. Rossion, B., Gauthier, I., Goffaux, V., Tarr, M.J., Crommelinck, M. (2002). Expertise training with novel objects leads to face-like electrophysiological responses. Psychological Science, 13, 250-257.
16. Rossion, B. (2002). Is sex categorisation from faces really parallel to face recognition ? Visual Cognition, 9, 1003-1020.
17. Rossion, B., Curran, T., Gauhier, I. (2002). A defense of the subordinate-level expertise account for the N170 component. Cognition, 85, 189-196.
18. Goffaux, V., Gauthier, I., Rossion, B. (2003). Spatial scale contribution to early visual differences between face and object processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 416-424.
19. Goffaux, V., Jemel, B., Jacques, C., Rossion, B., Schyns, P.G. (2003). ERP evidence for task modulations on face perceptual processing at different spatial scales. Cognitive Science, 27, 313-325.
20. Rossion, B. Schiltz, C., Crommelinck, M. (2003). The functionally defined ‘face areas’ are sensitive to long- term familiarity. Neuroimage, 19, 877-883.
21. Rossion, B., Caldara, R., Seghier, M., Schuller, A.-M., Lazeyras, F., Mayer, E. (2003). A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing. Brain, 126 , 2381-2395.
22. Rossion, B., Joyce, C., Cottrell, G.W., Tarr, M.J. (2003). Early lateralization and orientation tuning for face, word and object processing in the visual cortex. Neuroimage, 20, 1609-1624.
23. Rossion, B. & Pourtois, G. (2004). Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart’s Object Pictorial set: the role of surface detail in basic level object recognition. Perception, 33, 217-236.
24. Delvenne, J.-F, Seron, X., Coyette, F., Rossion, B. (2004). Do perceptual deficits always co-occur with visual (prosop)agnosia? Evidence from neurospychological investigation in a single-case study. Neuropsychologia, 42, 597-612.
25. Goffaux, V., Mouraux, A., Desmet, S., Rossion, B. (2004). Frontal and non-phase locked gamma oscillations in the human brain underly experience-based perception of visual scenes. Neuroscience Letters, 354, 14-17.
26. Schuller, A.-M. & Rossion, B. (2004). Perception of static eye gaze direction facilitates subsequent early visual processing. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 1161-1168.
27. Caldara, R., Rossion, B., Bovet, P., Hauert, C.-A. (2004). Tracking the time course of the ‘other-race’ face classification advantage using event-related potentials. Neuroreport, 15, 905-910.
28. Horovitz, S.G., Rossion, B., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J.C. (2004). Parametric design and correlational analyses help integrating fMRI and electrophysiological data during face processing. Neuroimage., 22, 1587-95.
29. Turconi, E, Jemel, B. Rossion, B., Seron, X. (2004). Electrophysiological evidence for differential processing of numerical quantity and order in humans. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 22-38.
30. Rossion, B., Kung, C.C., Tarr, M.-J. (2004). Visual expertise with nonface objects leads to competition with the early perceptual processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 101, 14521-14526.
31. Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2004). Concurrent processing reveals competition between overlapping visual representations of faces: an ERP study. Neuroreport, 15, 2417-2421.
32. Goffaux, V., Hault, B., Michel, C., Vuong, Q., Rossion, B. (2005). The respective role of low and high spatial frequencies in supporting configural and featural processing of faces. Perception, 34, 77-86.
33. Goffaux, V., Jacques, C., Mouraux, A., Oliva, A., Schyns, P.G., Rossion, B. (2005). Diagnostic Colors Contribute to the Early Stages of Scene Categorization: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence. Visual Cognition, 12, 878-892.
34. Caldara, R., Schyns, P., Mayer, E., Smith, M., Gosselin, F., Rossion, B. (2005). Does prosopagnosia take the eyes out from faces? Evidence for a defect in the use of diagnostic facial information in a brain-damaged patient. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1652-1666.
35. Schuller, A.-M. & Rossion, B. (2005). Spatial attention triggered by eye gaze enhances and speeds up visual processing in upper and lower visual fields beyond early striate visual processing. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2565-2576.
36. Joyce, C.A. & Rossion, B. (2005). The face-sensitive N170 and VPP components manifest the same brain processes: The effect of reference electrode site. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2613-2631.
37. Joyce, C.A., Schyns, P.G., Gosselin, F., Cottrell, G.W., Rossion, B. (2006). Early selection of diagnostic facial information in the human visual cortex. Vision Research, 46, 800-813.
38. Schiltz C, Sorger B, Caldara R, Ahmed F, Mayer E, Goebel R, Rossion B. (2006). Impaired Face Discrimination in Acquired Prosopagnosia Is Associated with Abnormal Response to Individual Faces in the Right Middle Fusiform Gyrus. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 574-86.
39. Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2006). The time course of visual competition to the presentation of centrally fixated faces. Journal of Vision, 17, 154-162.
40. Michel, C., Caldara, R., Rossion, B. (2006). Same-race faces are perceived more holistically than other-race faces. Visual Cognition, 14, 55-73.
41. Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2006). The speed of individual face categorization. Psychological Science, 17, 485-492.
42. Mazard, A., Schiltz, C ., Rossion, B. (2006). Recovery from adaptation to facial identity is larger for upright than inverted faces in the human occipito-temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 44, 911-922.
43. Michel, C., Rossion, B., Han, J., Chung, C-S., Caldara, R. (2006). Holistic processing is finely tuned for faces of our own race. Psychological Science, 17, 608-615.
44. Caldara, R., Seghier, M.L., Rossion, B., Lazeyras, F., Michel, C., Hauert, C.A. (2006). The fusiform face area is tuned for curvilinear patterns with more high-contrasted elements in the upper part. Neuroimage, 31, 313-319.
45. Schiltz, C. & Rossion, B. (2006). Faces are represented holistically in the human occipito-temporal cortex.
NeuroImage, 32, 1385-1394.
46. Goffaux, V. & Rossion, B. (2006). Faces are “spatial”- Holistic face perception is supported by low spatial frequencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.32, 1023-1039.
47. de Heering , A. & Houthuys, S. & Rossion, B. (2007). Holistic face processing is mature at 4 years of age: evidence from the composite face effect. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 96, 57-70.
48. Rossion, B., Collins, D., Goffaux, V., Curran, T. (2007). Long-term expertise with artificial objects increases visual competition with early face categorization processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 543-555.
49. Sorger, B ., Goebel, R., Schiltz, C., Rossion, B. (2007). Understanding the functional neuroanatomy of acquired prosopagnosia. NeuroImage, 35, 836-852.
50. Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2007). Electrophysiological evidence for temporal dissociation between spatial attention and sensory competition during human face processing. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1055-1065.
51. Jacques, C. d'Arripe, O., Rossion, B. (2007). The time course of the face inversion effect during individual face discrimination. Journal of Vision, 7, 1-9.
52. Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2007). Early electrophysiological responses to multiple face orientations correlate with individual discrimination performance in humans. NeuroImage. 36, 863-876.
53. Goffaux, V. & Rossion, B. (2007). Face inversion disproportionately impairs the perception of vertical but not horizontal relations between features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.33, 995-1002.
54. Bentin, S., Taylor, M.J. Rousselet, G.A., Itier, R.J., Caldara, R., Schyns, P.G., Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2007). Much ado about nothing: controlling interstimulus perceptual variance does not abolish N170 face sensitivity, Nature Neuroscience, 10, 801-802.
55. Michel, C., Corneille, O., Rossion, B. (2007). Race categorization modulates holistic encoding. Cognitive Science, 31, 911-924.
56. Pablos Martin, X., Deltenre, P., Hoonhorst, I., Markessis, E., Rossion, B.& Colin, C. (2007). Perceptual biases for rhythm: The Mismatch Negativity latency indexes the privileged status of binary vs non-binary interval ratios. Clinical Neurophysiology, 118, 2709-2715.
57. de Heering, A., Turati, C., Rossion, B., Bulf, H., Goffaux, V., Simion, F. (2008). Newborns' face recognition is based on spatial frequencies below 0.5 cycles per degree. Cognition, 106, 444-454.
58. Rossion, B. & Jacques, C. (2008). Does physical interstimulus variance account for early electrophysiological face sensitive responses in the human brain? Ten lessons on the N170. NeuroImage, 39, 1959-1979.
59. Dricot, L., Sorger, B., Schiltz, C., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2008). The roles of “face” and “non-face” areas during individual face perception: evidence by fMRI adaptation in a brain-damaged prosopagnosic patient. NeuroImage, 40, 318-332.
60. Dricot, L., Sorger, B., Schiltz, C ., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2008). Evidence for individual face discrimination in non-face selective areas of the visual cortex in acquired prosopagnosia. Behavioural Neurology, 19, 75-79.
61. Ashworth, A.R.S., Vuong, Q., Rossion, B., Tarr, M.-J. (2008). Recognizing rotated faces and Greebles: Is the inversion effect unique to faces? Visual Cognition, 16, 754-784.
62. Mariol, M., Jacques, C., Schelstraete, M.-A. & Rossion, B. (2008). The speed of orthographic processing during lexical decision: electrophysiological evidence for independent coding of letter identity and letter position in visual word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1283-1299.
63. Rossion, B. (2008). Constraining the cortical face network by neuroimaging studies of acquired prosopagnosia. NeuroImage, 40, 423-426.
64. de Heering, A., Rossion, B., Turati, C., Simion, F. (2008). Holistic face processing can be independent of gaze behavior: Evidence from the face composite effect. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 183-195.
65. Orban de Xivry, J.-J., Ramon, M., Lefèvre, P., Rossion, B. (2008). Reduced fixation on the upper area of personally familiar faces following acquired prosopagnosia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 245-268.
66. Rossion, B. & Boremanse, A. (2008). Nonlinear relationship between holistic processing of individual faces and picture-plane rotation: evidence from the face composite illusion. Journal of Vision, 8, 1-13.
67. Rossion, B. (2008). Picture-plane inversion leads to qualitative changes of face perception. Acta Psychologica, 128, 274-289.
68. Maurer, U., Rossion, B., McCandliss, B. (2008). Category specificity in early perception: face and word N170 responses differ in both lateralization and habituation properties. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2:18.
69. De Heering, A. & Rossion, B. (2008). Prolonged visual experience in adulthood modulates holistic face perception. PLOS One, 3, e2317.
70. Rossion, B., Kaiser, M.D., Bub, D., Tanaka, J.W. (2009). Is the loss of diagnosticity of the eye region a common feature of acquired prosopagnosia? Journal of Neuropsychology, 3, 69-78.
71. Goffaux, V., Rossion, B., Sorger, B., Schiltz, S. & Goebel, R. (2009). Face inversion disrupts the perception of vertical relations between features in the right human occipito-temporal cortex. Journal of Neuropsychology, 3, 45-67.
72. Caharel, S., d'Arripe, O., Ramon, M., Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2009). Early adaptation to unfamiliar faces across viewpoint changes in the right hemisphere: evidence from the N170 ERP component. Neuropsychologia, 47, 639-643.
73. Steeves, J., Dricot, L., Goltz, H., Sorger, B., Peters, J., Milner, D., Goodale, M.-A., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2009). Abnormal face identity coding in the middle fusiform gyrus of two brain-damaged prosopagnosic patients. Neuropsychologia.47, 2584-2592.
74. Rossion, B. (2009). Distinguishing the cause and consequence of face inversion: the perceptual field hypothesis. Acta Psychologica, 132, 300-312.
75. Busigny, T., Robaye, L., Dricot, L., Rossion, B. (2009). Right anterior temporal lobe atrophy and person- based semantic defect : a detailed case study. Neurocase, 30, 1-24.
76. Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2009). The initial representation of individual faces in the right occipito-temporal cortex is holistic: electrophysiological evidence from the composite face illusion. Journal of Vision. 11;9(6):8.1-16.
77. Caharel, S., Jiang, F., Blanz, V., Rossion, B. (2009). Recognizing an individual face: 3D shape contributes earlier than 2D surface reflectance information. NeuroImage, 47, 1809-1818.
78. Jiang, F., Dricot, L., Blanz, V., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2009). Neural correlates of shape and surface reflectance information in individual faces. Neuroscience. 163, 1078-91.
79. Michel, C., Corneille, O., Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic face encoding is modulated by perceived face race: evidence from perceptual adaptation. Visual Cognition.18, 434-455.
80. Busigny, T. & Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia is not due to a general impairment in fine- grained recognition of exemplars of a visually homogeneous category. Behavioural Neurology, 23, 229-231.
81. de Heering, A., de Liedekerke, C., Deboni, M., Rossion, B. (2010). The role of experience during childhood in shaping the other-race face effect. Developmental Science, 13, 181-187.
82. Kuefner, D., de Heering, A., Jacques, C., Palmero-Soler, E., Rossion, B. (2010). Early visually evoked electrophysiological responses over the human brain (P1, N170) show stable patterns of face-sensitivity from 4 years to adulthood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 3:67. doi:10.3389/neuro.09.067.2009
83. Duque J., Davare M., Delaunay L., Jacob B., Saur R., Hummel F., Hermoye L., Rossion B., Olivier E. (2010) Monitoring coordination during bimanual movements; where is the mastermind? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 526-542.
84. Ramon, M., Rossion, B. (2010). Impaired processing of relative distances between features and of the eye region in acquired prosopagnosia—two sides of the same holistic coin? Cortex, 46, 374-389.
85. Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2010). Misaligning face halves increases and delays the N170 specifically for upright faces: implications for the nature of early face representations. Brain Research,1318, 96-109.
86. Ramon, M., Busigny, T., Rossion, B. (2010). Impaired holistic processing of unfamiliar individual faces in acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia. 48, 933-944.
87. Schiltz, C., Dricot, L., Goebel, R., & Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic perception of individual faces in the right middle fusiform gyrus as evidenced by the composite face illusion. Journal of Vision, 10(2):25, 1-16, http://journalofvision.org/10/2/25/, doi:10.1167/10.2.25.
88. Rossion, B., Curran, T. (2010). Visual expertise with pictures of cars correlates with RT magnitude of the car inversion effect. Perception, 39, 173-183.
89. Busigny, T. & Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia abolishes the face inversion effect. Cortex, 46, 965-981.
90. Busigny, T., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Ceccaldi, M., Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 4057-4092.
91. Kuefner, D., Jacques, C., Prieto, E.A., Rossion, B. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of the composite face illusion: disentangling perceptual and decisional components of holistic face processing in the human brain. Brain and Cognition, 74, 225-238.
92. Van Belle, G., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K., Busigny, T., Rossion, B. (2010). Whole not hole: expert face recognition requires holistic perception. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2609-2620.
93. Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Rossion, B., Schyns, P.G., Gosselin, F.(2010). Interattribute distances do not represent the identity of real-world faces. Front. Psychology 1:159. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00159.
94. Busigny, T., Graf, M., Mayer, E., Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia as a face-specific disorder: Ruling out the general visual similarity account . Neuropsychologia, 48, 2051-2067.
95. Van Belle, G.*, Ramon, M.*, Lefèvre, P., Rossion, B. (2010). Fixation patterns during recognition of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces. Frontiers in Cognitive Science. (* equal contribution). Front. Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00020
96. Van Belle, G., Lefèvre, P., Laguesse, R., Busigny, T., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K., Rossion, B. (2010). Feature-based processing of personally familiar faces in prosopagnosia: Evidence from eye gaze- contingency. Behavioural Neurology, 23, 255-257.
97. Ramon, M., Dricot, L., Rossion, B. (2010). Personally familiar faces are perceived categorically in face- selective regions other than the FFA. European Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 1587-1598.
98. Van Belle, G., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K., Rossion, B., Lefèvre, P. (2010). Face inversion impairs holistic perception: Evidence from gaze-contingent stimulation. Journal of Vision. May 1;10. pii: 10.5.10. doi: 10.1167/10.5.10.
99. Busigny, T. & Rossion, B. (2011). Holistic processing impairment can be restricted to faces in acquired prosopagnosia: Evidence from the global/local Navon effect. Journal of Neuropsychology, 5, 1-14.
100. Ramon, M., Caharel, S., & Rossion, B. (2011). The speed of personally familiar face recognition.
Perception, 40, 437-449.
101. Rossion, B. & Caharel, S. (2011). ERP evidence for the speed of face categorization in the human brain: disentangling the contribution of low-level visual cues from face perception. Vision Research, 51, 1297- 1311.
102. Rossion, B. & Boremanse, A. (2011). Robust sensitivity to facial identity in the right human occipito- temporal cortex as revealed by steady-state visual-evoked potentials. Journal of Vision. 11(2):16, 1–21.
103. Caharel, S., Jacques, C., d'Arripe, O., Ramon, M., & Rossion, B. (2011). Early electrophysiological correlates of adaptation to personally familiar and unfamiliar faces across viewpoint changes. Brain Research, 1387, 85-98.
104. Rossion, B., Dricot, L., Goebel, R., Busigny, T. (2011). Holistic face categorization in higher-level cortical visual areas of the normal and prosopagnosic brain: towards a non-hierarchical view of face perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:225. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00225.
105. Quadflieg, S., Flannigan, N., Waiter, G.D., Rossion, B., Wig, G.S., Turk, D.J., Macrae, CN. (2011). Stereotype-based modulation of person perception. NeuroImage, 57, 549-557.
106. Jiang, F., Dricot, L., Weber, J., Righi, G., Tarr, M.J., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2011). Face categorization in visual scenes may start in a higher order area of the right fusiform gyrus: evidence from dynamic visual stimulation in neuroimaging. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106, 2720-2736.
107. Jiang, F., Blanz, V., Rossion, B. (2011). Holistic processing of shape cues in face identification: evidence from face inversion, composite faces and acquired prosopagnosia. Visual Cognition, 19, 1003-1034.
108. Van Belle, G., Busigny, T., Lefèvre, P., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2011). Impairment of holistic face perception following right occipito-temporal damage in prosopagnosia: converging evidence from gaze-contingency. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3145-3150.
109. Prieto EA, Caharel S, Henson R, Rossion B. (2011). Early (n170/m170) face-sensitivity despite right lateral occipital brain damage in acquired prosopagnosia.Front Hum Neurosci. 2011;5:138.
110. de Heering, A., Rossion, B., Maurer, D. (2012). Developmental Changes in Face Recognition During Childhood: Evidence from Upright and Inverted Faces. Cognitive Development, 27, 17-27.
111. Rossion, B., Hanseeuw B, Dricot L. (2012). Defining face perception areas in the human brain: a large- scale factorial fMRI face localizer analysis. Brain and Cognition, 79, 138-57.
112. de Heering A, Aljuhanay A, Rossion B, Pascalis O. (2012). Early deafness increases the face inversion effect but does not modulate the composite face effect.Front Psychol. 3:124.
113. Ramon M, Rossion B. (2012). Hemisphere-dependent holistic processing of familiar faces. Brain and Cognition, 78, 7-13.
114. Quadflieg, S., Todorov, A., Laguesse, R., Rossion, B. (2012). Normal Face-Based Judgments of Social Characteristics Despite Severely Impaired Holistic Face Processing. Visual Cognition, 20, 865-882.
115. Jonas, J., Descoins, M., Koessler, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Sauvee, M., Guye, M., Vignal, J-P., Vespignani, H., Rossion, B., Maillard, L. (2012). Focal electrical intracerebral stimulation of a face-sensitive area causes transient prosopagnosia. Neuroscience, 222, 281-288.
116. Ales, J., Farzin, F., Rossion, B., Norcia, A.M. (2012). An objective method for measuring face detection thresholds using the sweep steady-state evoked response. Journal of Vision, 12:18, 1-18.
117. Laguesse, R., Dormal, G., Biervoye, A., Kuefner, D., Rossion, B. (2012). Extensive visual training in adulthood significantly reduces the face inversion effect. Journal of Vision, 12:14, 1-13.
118. Rossion, B., Prieto, EA., Boremanse, A., Kuefner, D., Van Belle, G. (2012). A steady-state visual evoked potential approach to individual face perception: effect of inversion, contrast-reversal and temporal dynamics. NeuroImage, 63, 1585-1600.
119. Quadflieg, S., Vermeulen, N., Rossion, B. (2013). Differential Reliance on the Duchenne Marker During Smile Evaluations and Person Judgments. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 69-77.
120. Rossion, B. (2013). The composite face illusion: a window to our understanding of holistic face perception.
Visual Cognition, 121, 139-253.
121. Kovács, G., Zimmer, M., Volberg, G., Lavric, I., Rossion, B. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of visual adaptation and sensory competition. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1488-1496.
122. Bukowski, H., Dricot, L., Hanseeuw, B., Rossion, B. (2013). Cerebral lateralization of face-sensitive areas in left-handers: only the FFA does not get it right. Cortex, 49, 2583-2589.
123. Boremanse, A., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2013). An objective signature for visual binding of face parts in the human brain. Journal of Vision, (11):6, 1-18.
124. Prieto, E.A, Van Belle, G., Liu-Shuang, J., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2013). The 6Hz fundamental frequency rate for individual face discrimination in the right occipito-temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia. 51, 2863-2875.
125. Michel, C., Rossion, B., Bülthoff, I, Hayward, W., Vuong, Q. (2013). The contribution of shape and surface information in the other-race face effect. Visual Cognition, 21, 1202-1213.
126. Laguesse, R. & Rossion, B. (2013). Face perception is whole or none: disentangling the role of spatial contiguity and inter-features distances in the composite face illusion. Perception, 42, 1013-1026.
127. Caharel, S., Ramon, M., Rossion, B. (2014). Face familiarity decisions take 200ms in the human brain: electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 81-95.
128. Liu-Shuang, J., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2014). An objective index of individual face discrimination in the right occipito-temporal cortex by means of fast periodic oddball stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 52, 57- 72.
129. Busigny, T., Van Belle, G., Jemel, B., Hosein, A., Joubert, S., Rossion, B. (2014). Face-specific impairment in holistic perception following focal lesion of the right anterior temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia, 56, 312-333.
130. Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2014). Temporal frequency tuning of cortical face-sensitive areas for individual face perception. Neuroimage, 90, 256-265.
131. Rossion, B. (2014). Understanding face perception by means of human electrophysiology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 310-318.
132. Jonas, J., Frismand, S., Vignal, J.-P., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Koessler, L., Vespignani, H., Rossion, B., Maillard, L. (2014). Right hemispheric dominance of visual phenomena evoked by intracerebral stimulation of the human visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 35, 3360-3371.
133. Rossion, B. (2014). Understanding individual face discrimination by means of fast periodic visual stimulation. Experimental Brain Research, 232, 1599-1621.
134. Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Frismand, S., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vespignani, H., Rossion, B., Vignal, J.-P. (2014). Self-face hallucination evoked by electrical stimulation of the human brain. Neurology, 83, 336-338.
135. Jonas, J., Rossion, B., Krieg, J., Koessler, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vignal, J.-P. Vespignani, H., Jacques, C., Brissart, H., Maillard, L. (2014). Intracerebral electrical stimulation of a face-selective area in the right occipito-temporal cortex impairs individual face discrimination. NeuroImage, 97, 487-497.
136. Dzhelyova M, Rossion B. (2014). The effect of parametric stimulus size variation on individual face discrimination indexed by fast periodic visual stimulation. BMC Neurosci. 15(1):87.
137. Rossion, B. (2014). Understanding face perception by means of prosopagnosia and neuroimaging.
Frontiers in Bioscience (Elite Ed.); 6-308-317.
138. Boremanse, A., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2014). Dissociation of part-based and integrated neural responses to faces by means of EEG frequency-tagging. European Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 2947- 2987.
139. Dzhelyova M, Rossion B. (2014). Supra-additive contribution of shape and surface information to individual face discrimination as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation. Journal of Vision, 14(14):15, 1–14.
140. Lochy, A., Van Belle, G., Rossion, B. (2015). A robust index of lexical representation in the left occipito- temporal cortex as evidenced by EEG responses to fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 66, 18-31.
141. Rossion, B., Jacques, C., Torfs, K., Liu-Shuang, J. (2015). Fast periodic presentation of natural images reveals a robust face-selective electrophysiological response in the human brain. Journal of Vision, 15(18),1-18.
142. Van Belle, G., Lefevre, P., & Rossion, B. (2015). Face inversion and acquired prosopagnosia reduce the size of the perceptual field of view. Cognition, 136, 403-408.
143. Liu-Shuang, J., Ales, J., Rossion, B., Norcia, A.M. (2015). The effect of contrast polarity reversal on face detection: evidence of perceptual asymmetry from sweep VEP. Vision Research, 108, 8-19.
144. Taubert, J., Van Belle, G., Vanduffel, W. Rossion, B., Vogels, R. (2015). The effect of face inversion for neurons inside and outside fMRI-defined face-selective cortical regions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113, 1644-1655.
145. Dormal, G., Lepore, F., Harissi-Dagher, M., Albouy, G., Bertone, A., Rossion, B., Collignon, O. (2015). Tracking the evolution of crossmodal plasticity and visual functions before and after sight-restoration. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113, 1727-1742.
146. Liu-Shuang, J., Ales, J., Rossion, B., Norcia, A.M. (2015). Separable effects of inversion and contrast reversal on face detection thresholds and response functions: a sweep VEP study. Journal of Vision. Feb 10;15(2). pii: 11. doi: 10.1167/15.2.11
147. Caharel, S. Collet, K. & Rossion, B. (2015). The early visual encoding of a face (N170) is viewpoint- dependent: a parametric ERP-adaptation study. Biological Psychology, 106, 18-27.
148. Jiang, F., Badler, J, Righi, G., Rossion, B. (2015). Category search speeds up face-selective fMRI responses in a non-hierarchical cortical face network. Cortex, 66, 69-80.
149. Rossion, B., & Retter, T. (2015). Holistic face perception: mind the gap! Visual Cognition, 23, 379-398.
150. Quadflieg, S., Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2015). The neural basis of perceiving person interactions. Cortex, 70, 5-20.
151. Norcia, A.M., Appelbaum, G., Ales, J., Cottereau, B., Rossion, B. (2015). The Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential in Vision Research: a Review. Journal of Vision, 15(6):4, 1-46.
152. Retter, T. & Rossion, B. (2015). The effect of global shape and color information on the composite face effect. Perception, 44, 511-528.
153. De Heering, A. & Rossion, B. (2015). Rapid categorization of faces in the infant right hemisphere. eLife. 2015;4:e06564.
154. Taubert, J., Van Belle, G., Vanduffel, W., Rossion, B., Vogels, R. (2015). Neural correlate of the Thatcher Face Illusion in a monkey face-selective patch. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 9872-9878.
155. Jonas, J., Rossion, B., Brissart, H., Frismand, S., Jacques, C., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vespignani, H., Vignal, J.-P., Maillard, L. (2015). Beyond the core face-processing network: intracerebral stimulation of a face- selective area in the right anterior fusiform gyrus elicits transient prosopagnosia. Cortex, 72, 140-155.
156. Nemrodov, D., Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2015). Temporal dynamics of repetition suppression to individual faces presented at a fast periodic rate. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 98, 35-43.
157. Ramon, M., Vizioli, L., Liu-Shuang, J., Rossion, B. (2015). The neural microgenesis of personally familiar face recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 112, E4835-44.
158. Liu-Shuang, J., Torfs, K., Rossion, B. (2016). An objective electrophysiological marker of face individualisation impairment in acquired prosopagnosia with fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 83, 100-113.
159. Retter, T., Rossion, B. (2016). Visual adaptation provides objective electrophysiological evidence of facial identity discrimination. Cortex, 80, 35-50.
160. Lavallée, M.M., Gandini, D., Rouleau, I., Vallet, G.T., Joannette, M., Kergoat, M.-J., Busigny, T., Rossion, B., Joubert, S. (2016). A qualitative impairment in face perception in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a reduced face inversion effect. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 51, 1225-1236.
161. Alp, N., Kogo, N., Van Belle, G., Wagemans, J., Rossion, B. (2016). Frequency tagging yields an objective neural signature of Gestalt formation. Brain and Cognition, 104, 15-24.
162. Deouell, L., LY, Grill-Spector K, Malach R, Murray MM, Rossion B. (2016). Introduction to the special issue on functional selectivity in perceptual and cognitive systems - a tribute to Shlomo Bentin (1946- 2012). Neuropsychologia, 83, 1-4.
163. Jacques, C.*, Retter, T.,* Rossion, B. (2016). A single glance at natural face images generate larger and qualitatively different category-selective spatio-temporal signatures than other ecologically-relevant categories in the human brain. NeuroImage, 137, 21-33.
164. Jonas, J.*, Jacques, C.*, Liu-Shuang, J., Brissart, H., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Maillard, L., Rossion, B. (2016). A face-selective ventral occipito-temporal map of the human brain with intracerebral potentials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 113, E4088–E4097.
165. Lochy, A., Van Reybroeck, M., Rossion, B. (2016). Left cortical specialization for visual letter strings predicts rudimentary knowledge of letter-sound association in preschoolers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 113, 8544-8549.
166. Palermo, P., Rossion, B., Rhodes, G., Laguesse, R., Tez, T., Hall, B., Albonico, A., Malaspina, M., Daini, R., Irons, J., Al-Janabi, S., Taylor, L.C., Rivolta, D., McKone, E. (in press). Do people have insight into
their face recognition abilities? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
167. Weiner, K., Jonas, J., Gomez, J., Maillard, L., Brissart, H., Hossu, G., Jacques, C., Loftus, D., Colnat- Coubois, S., Stigliani, A., Barnett, M., Grill-Spector, K., Rossion, B. (in press). The face-processing network is resilient to focal resection of human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.
168. Dzhelyova, M., Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (in press). At a single glance: fast periodic visual stimulation uncovers the spatio-temporal dynamics of brief facial expression changes in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex.
169. Retter, T.L., Rossion, B. (in press). Uncovering the neural magnitude and spatio-temporal dynamics of natural image categorization in a fast visual stream. Neuropsychologia.
170. Gentile, F., Ales, J., Rossion, B. (in press). Being BOLD: The neural dynamics of face perception. Human Brain Mapping.
Total of 170 publications as of August 2016 (all in international journals). 80% of publications as first or last author. Total number of citations (ISI Web of Science): 8326 (7236 without self-citations); average number of citations by paper when removing abstracts: 48.23. H-index: 52. Google Scholar H-index: 62, # of citations: 12512.
Book/Handbook/Encyclopedia chapters
Mayer, E. & Rossion, B. (2007). Prosopagnosia. In O. Godefroy and J. Bogousslavsky The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke : Cambridge University Press.pp.315-334.
Joubert, S., Rossion, B., Busigny, T. (2009). L’évaluation neuropsychologique de la prosopagnosie. In Traitement et reconnaissance des visages: du percept à la personne (‘‘Processing and recognition of faces : from percept to person’’). Edited by Emmanuel Barbeau, Sven Joubert & Olivier Felician (Eds.). Solal Editions, chapter 9.
Rossion, B. (2009). Etude de la neuro-anatomie du traitement des visages par la neuroimagerie fonctionnelle. In Traitement et reconnaissance des visages: du percept à la personne (‘‘Processing and recognition of faces : from percept to person’’). Edited by E. Barbeau,
S. Joubert & O. Felician (Eds.). Solal Editions, chapter 7.
Rossion, B. (2009). Clarifying the functional neuro-anatomy of face perception by single-case neuroimaging studies of acquired prosopagnosia. In “Cortical Mechanims of Vision”, Edited by L. Harris & M. Jenkins. Cambridge University Press.
Curby, K. & Rossion, B. (2010). Competition between face and non-face domains of expertise. In “Perceptual Expertise: Bridging Brain and Behavior”, Edited by D. Bub, M. J. Tarr and I. Gauthier. Oxford University Press, pp. 245-268.
Rossion, B. & Michel, C. (2011). An experienced-based holistic account of the other- race face effect. In The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception, Edited by A. Calder, G. Rhodes,
J.V. Haxby and M. Johnson. Oxford University Press, pp. 215-244.
Rossion, B. & Jacques, C. (2011). The N170 : understanding the time-course of face perception in the human brain. The Oxford Handbook of ERP Components, Edited by S. Luck and E. Kappenman. Oxford University Press, pp. 115–142.
Busigny, Mayer & Rossion (2013). Prosopagnosia. In O. Godefroy The Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology of Stroke : Cambridge University Press.pp.315-334.
Rossion B. (2015). Face Perception. In: Arthur W. Toga, editor. Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference, vol. 2, pp. 515-522. Academic Press: Elsevier.
Unpublished manuscripts
Rossion, B. (1996). Contribution de la tomographie par émission de positrons à l’établissement de la neuro-anatomie fonctionnelle du traitement des visages. Unpublished Graduation Thesis, Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education, Universite Catholique de Louvain. Promoteurs: Prs. M. Crommelinck et R. Bruyer.
Rossion, B. (2000). Testing the modularity of face recognition by means of electrophysiological and functional neuroimaging measurements. Unpublished doctoral Thesis, Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education, Université Catholique de Louvain. Supervisors: Prs. M. Crommelinck et R. Bruyer.
Book translation
Translator English-French, with Marc Crommelinck et Samuel Dubois, of
Posner, M.I. & Raichle, M.E. L’esprit en images. (1998). Editions De Boeck. (English Edition:
Images of Mind. New York: WH Freeman).
Object databank
The colorized Snodgrass and Vanderwart object databank, with Gilles Pourtois (Tilburg University), available at http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com
Oral Presentations:
- Invited speaker for the 4th graduate students workshop, functional neuroimaging methods (Geneva Switzerland, September 13th-15th 2001; 15 hours of training to graduate students).
- Invited speaker at: (2004): Journées de Neurologie de Langue Française (Nantes); Experimental Psychology Meeting, London (EPS); Evoked Potential International Conference (EPIC XIV), Leipzig; (2005) : Society for Psychophysiology Research, Lisbon; (2006) : Centre for Vision Research Conference at York University, York, Ca; (2007) : First international workshop on time course of face processing, Jerusalem; (2008): Bressanone Cognitive Neurospychology Meeting; International Meeting on Neuroesthetics, Berkeley; Expert Meeting on Social Cognitive Neuroscience (ESCON,
Ghent): Workshop on Psychology of Face and Gesture Recognition, 8th IEEE International Conference on automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2008, Amsterdam) ; (2009): Réunion annuelle de la Société de Psychophysiologie Cognitive (Tours); (2010) : Caos workshop, Rovereto; ECNS, Istanbul; ICCN2010 , Kobe; (2011): Journées de Neurologie de Langue Française (Paris), International Neuropsychological Symposium (INS, Mondsee); Workshop on people perception (Jena); Ecole Bancaud-Talairach (Paris); Fondation Louvain (UCL); (2012) ESCAN (Marseille); International symposium on face perception (Dijon, Fr); NIPS international symposium on face perception, Okazaki, Japan. (2013): BACI conference (Geneva); (2014): Rank Prize Symposium on Face Perception, Lake District, UK; Neuropsychological Symposium, Aix-en-Provence, France; Summer School on Face Processing, Universita Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy; Summer School on Repetition Suppression, Jena, Germany; (2015): Workshop on “Faces, Bodies and Voices: Multimodal Mechanisms of Person Recognition”, Jerusalem, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies; Workshop on Face Perception, Perth, University of Western Australia.
- Oral presentations at international meetings: Vision Science Society (VSS, 2001; 2005; 2007; 2009 ; 2010); Society for Neuroscience (SFN, 2004; 2005; 2010); 5th meeting of Federation of Psychophysiological Society (FEPS, Bordeaux, 2003; Budapest, 2006); Evoked Potential International Conference (EPIC XIV, Leipzig, 2004 ; Bloomington 2009); International Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X, 2007, Bodrum); European Conference of Visual perception (ECVP: 2011, Toulouse; 2013, Bremen; 2015, Liverpool); Experimental Psychology (EPS, January meeting, 2003, 2012, 2014);
Australasian Psychology Conference (EPC, Sidney, 2015; Melbourne, 2016); Ninth Annual Champalinaud Research Symposium, Hyderabad, India (2016); 18th World Congress of Psychophysiology (IOP), Habana, Cuba (Keynote Lecture 2016).
- Invited speaker for internal seminars at (among others): 2002: Yale University; Cerco, Toulouse; 2004: Birmingham University, UK; California Institute of Technology (Caltech); University of Padova; The Neuroscience Institute, San Diego; University of California San Diego (UCSD); University of Victoria; 2005: University of Milano; University of Colorado at Boulder ; University of Geneva ; University of Glasgow; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Université de Montréal; 2006: Max Planck Institute, Tubingen; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Stanford University; University of Durham, UK; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; University of Victoria, Ca; 2007: University of Luebeck; Cambridge MRC; Rotman Institute, Toronto; McMaster, Hamilton; Université Lille 3; Weizmann Institute, Israel; 2008: University of Berkeley; Université de Montréal, Ca; Oxford University, UK; University of Aberdeen, UK ; 2009: Leeds University, UK; University of Athens, Greece; Paris V, France ; 2010: Stanford University; USC; and Center for Mind and Brain, Davis ; 2011: University of Giessen, Ger ; CHU Nancy, Fr. 2012: Université de Montréal, CNRS (Cerco) Toulouse, University of Victoria (Canada), UCLondon. 2013: Stanford University, University of Heidelberg, University of Hamburg; 2014: Ecole Normal Supérieure, Paris; 2015: Queensland Brain Institute (Brisbane), Macquarie University (Sydney), Australian National University (Canberra), Univ. of Nevada (Reno), Univ. of Gent; 2016: University of Leicester; Marburg University; Macquarie Univ.; Univ. of Nevada (Reno, doctoral school in Neuroscience), Lyon, Institute of Cognitive Sciences.
Conferences/Meeting organization:
Co-organizer with G. Kovacs (University of Budapest) of a symposium on face processing at the 6th FEPS meeting, Budapest, June 2006 (Speakers : C. Jacques, G. Kovacs, G. Rousselet, A. Lueschow, B. Rossion).
Co-organizer with O. Corneille (University of Louvain) of an expert international meeting on face processing, held in Louvain-la-Neuve in september 2005, funded by ESF and FNRS grants
(invited speakers : D . Perrett, A. Calder, K. Huggenberg, T. Ito, R. Caldara, G. Rhodes, P.G. Schyns, T. Vetter, F. Simion, J. Tanaka).
Co-organizer with S. Bentin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) of a symposium on the time-course of face processing at the 14th EPIC meeting, Blomington, Indiana, USA, April 2009 (Speakers : G. Rousselet, B. Jemel; A. Puce; B. Rossion).
Co-organizer with S. Joubert (Université de Montreal) of a symposium on face recognition : the legacy of Justine Sergent (Speakers : S. Joubert, E. Barbeau, F. Gosselin, B. Rossion), official meeting of the Société de Neuropsychologie de langue Française, Montreal, May 2009.
Co-organizer of the meeting “Visual perception and visual arts” at the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. November 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
Co-organizer of the 3 days international workshop “From theoretical work, to practical applications, and back again: a neuropsychologist’s tale”. KULeuven, September 2013.
Organizer of the ERP bootcamp by Steven J. Luck. Three days of introductory course on event-related potentials. Louvain-la-Neuve, august 2013.
Co-organizer with J. Mattingley (Queensland Brain Institute) of a symposium on EEG frequency-tagging at the ICON 2014 conference, Brisbane, Australia (speakers: J. Mattingley, B. Van Swinderen, R. O’Connell, B. Rossion), July 2014.
Grants:
PI of 8 succesfully funded Belgian National Research Fund (FNRS) grants since 2002, including a “scientific impulse grant” from FNRS (450.000 euros/3 years, 2008-2011), a FRSM Grant (2012- 2016, 476.000 euros/4years), and a collective grant for large equipments (PI. A. Mouraux,
200.000 euros, 2014). Three collaborative network grants at the University of Louvain (ARC, 5 years funding of about 1.2M euros, 2002-2007; 2007-2012; 2013-2018, leading PI), and 4 Special Research Funds from the University. Supervisor of 11 successfully obtained PhD fellowships (“aspirant de recherche” FNRS) and 7 postdoctoral fellowships (“chargé de recherche” FNRS), as well as 6 incoming international postdoc fellowships (UCL and Marie-Curie/FSR). 1 HFSP grant for postdoctoral fellowship (F. Jiang). ERC Starting Grant 2011 (1.5M/5 years), interuniversity Belgian grant (PAI/IUAP, 2012-2017); Co-applicant with B. Boets (KUL), FWO, 0.6M/4years (2016-2019).
PhD Thesis Supervisor:
Goffaux, V. (presented in 2003). Top down modulations of early face visual processing: evidence from event-related potentials. Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
V. Goffaux is senior FNRS researcher at the University of Louvain
Schuller, A.-M. (2004). Attention and gaze orientation studied by event-related potentials.
Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
A.M. Schuller is currently part-time researcher at the University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg)
Jacques, C. (2007). The time-course of perceptual face processing: from early face categorization to the encoding of individual face representations. Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
C. Jacques is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Louvain after a postdoc at Stanford University
Michel, C. (2007). Differential holistic processing of same- and other-race faces. Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
C. Michel is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Louvain
De Heering, A. (2009). Development and plasticity of face processing : the holistic hypothesis.
Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
A. de Heering is currently a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster (Canada)
Dricot, L. (2010). Functional connectivity within the face cortical network. Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
L. Dricot works currently as a fMRI research advisor at the Université catholique de Louvain
Busigny, T. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia: a window to understand normal face processing.
Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis.
T. Busigny is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CNRS center, Cerco (Toulouse, France).
Ramon, M. (2010). The neural basis of personal face familiarity: perceptual and mnesic processes.
M. Ramon is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow (UK).
Alonso, E. (2011). Studying face individualization through ERP and SSVEP techniques in healthy and prosopagnosic individuals. Université catholique de Louvain, Unpublished doctoral thesis. E. Alonso is postdoctoral researcher at Univerisity of Britsih Columbia (Canada)
Dormal, G. (2014), co-supervision with F. Lepore and M. Dhager (Univ. Montreal). Nature of crossmodal plasticity in the blind brain and interplay with sight restoration. G. Dormal is postdoctoral researcher at University of Hamburg (Germany)
Liu, J. (2015). Investigating the neural mechanisms of human face perception with periodic visual stimulation: detection and identity discrimination. J. Liu is postdoctoral researcher at University of Louvain
Jonas, J. (2016), co-supervision with L. Maillard, Université de Lorraine (Fr.). Bases neurophysiologiques de la perception des visages: potentiels évoqués intracérébraux et stimulation corticale focale. J. Jonas is postdoctoral researcher at University of Louvain
Boremanse, A. (in progress). Laguesse, R. (in progress).
Quenon, L. (in progress), co-supervision with A. Ivanoiu (UCL)
Peykarjou, S. (in progress), co-supervision with S. Paunen (Univ. Heidelberg). Beck, A. (in progress). co-supervision with D. Samson (Univ. Louvain).
Retter, T. (in progress). co-supervision with M. Webster et F. Jiang (Univ. Nevada, Reno, USA)
A. Vandewalle (in progress). co-supervision with A. Lochy (Univ. Louvain).
Postdoctoral Researcher Supervisor:
C. Schiltz (2002-2005). Neuroimaging studies of face perception and prosopagosia (postdoctoral grant, UCL). C. Schiltz is Associate Professor at the University of Luxemburg.
Mazard, A. (2005-2006). FMRI correlates of mental imagery of faces (postdoctoral grant, UCL). Caldara, R. (2005-2006). The other-race face effect. Postdoctoral grant, Belgian National Research
Fund (FNRS). R.. Caldara is Associate Professor at the University of Friburg (Switzerland)
Caharel, S. (2007- 2010). Electrophysiological correlates of familiar face processing. Postdoctoral grant, FNRS. S. Caharel is Lecturer at the Université de Lorraine (Nancy), France.
Jiang, F. (2007-2010). Neural representation of 3D-shape and 2D surface reflectance information on faces. Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship. F. Jiang is currently assistant Professor at the University of Reno, Nevada.
Kuefner, D. (2008- 2011). The time-course of face processing in adults and across development (postdoctoral grant UCL; Postdoctoral grant, FNRS). D. Kuefner is now editorial assistant for the scientific journal ‘Urology’.
Van Belle, G. (2009-2014). The nature of face perception revealed by eye movement recordings (postdoctoral grant UCL; Belgian Postdoctoral grant, FNRS). G. Van Belle is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Louvain
Quadflieg, S. (2010-2011). Social neuroscience (postdoctoral grant from the University). S. Quadflieg is currently assistant Professor at the University of Bristol, UK.
Badler, J. (2012). Dynamics of face perception with fMRI (postdoctoral grant UCL; Belgian Postdoctoral grant, FNRS).
Gentile, F. (2011–2013). Neuroimaging studies of face perception. (postdoctoral grant FNRS). F. Gentile is postdoctoral researcher at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Torfs, K. (2013). SSVEP studies of acquired prosopagnosia.
Taubert, J. (2011-2014). Neural basis of face perception with monkey physiology (postdoctoral grant from the University; Belgian National Research Fund). J. Taubert is postdoctoral researcher at University of Sydney, Australia.
Nemrodov, D. (2012-2014). D. Nemrodov is postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto, Canada.
Vertongen, G. (2013-2014).
de Heering, A. (2011-2015). Face categorization in infants as indexed by fast periodic visual stimulation (Postdoctoral fellowship, Belgian National Research Fund). A. de Heering is postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Brussels (ULB)
Jacques, C. (2012-in progress). Intracerebral recordings during fast periodic visual stimulation
(Federal Government postdoctoral fellowship, BELSPO) Lochy, A. (2012, in progress)
Dhzelyova, M. (2012, in progress) Or, C. (2014, in progress) Zimmermann, F. (2014, in progress) Quek, G. (2015, in progress).
Gao, X. (2015, in progress). Lithfous, S. (2016, in progress).
Other Supervisions/Lab Members:
Retter, T. (2012-2015). Research assistant.
Michel, C. (2014-in progress). Part-time research assistant. Conte, A. (2013-in progress). Computer scientist.
Luo, Q. (2014-2016). Visiting PhD student, Chinese exchange program.
C. Feuerriegel (2015-2016). Visiting PhD student, fellowship from the National Australia Government
PhD Thesis Evaluation Committee:
Krayaert, G. (2005). Shape coding in the inferior temporal cortex. Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (KUL).
Mouraux, A. (2005). Preceding events condition the central processing of nociceptive input as revealed by laser-evoked potentials. Université catholique de Louvain.
Caharel, S. (2006). Etude des mécanismes de la reconnaissance des visages et de leur dysfonctionnement chez des patients atteints de schyzophrénie. Université de Rouen, France.
Paulos, C. (2007). Les représentations visuelles du corps humain sont-elles spécifiques ?
Université de Strasbourg, France.
Latinus, M. (2007). De la perception unimodale à la perception bimodale des visages: corrélats électrophysiologiques et interactions entre traitement des visages et des voix. Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Jacquet, E. (2007). Perceptual aftereffects reveal dissociable adaptive coding of faces of different races and sexes. University of Western Australia.
Panis, S. (2008). Processing of contour information in shape perception and object recognition : explorations of mid- and high-level representations. Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (KUL).
Potter, T. (2008). The cognitive representation of face distinctiveness : theorical contribution and direct evidence for face space models. Université catholique de Louvain.
Crookes, K. (2009). The development of face recognition in infants and children”, Australian national University.
Morel, S. (2009). Effets de l’expérience préalable et de l’émotion sur la perception des visages et de leur état émotionnel : études comportementales et électrophysiologiques. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
Leonard, B. (2009). Réapprendre des concepts avec un cerveau lésé. Contribution à l’étude de la plasticité cérébrale. Université catholique de Louvain.
Crouzet, S. (2010). Jeter un regard sur une phase précoce des traitements visuels. Centre CNRS CERCO et Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Godard, O. (2010). Face recognition, Hemispheric Asymmetry and Sex differences. Paris, Descartes University.
Gentile, F. (2010). Context dependent face selection in a visual and semantic perspective.
University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Hanseeuw, B. (2011). Universite catholique de Louvain. On episodic memory encoding in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A cognitive and imaging approach. Université catholique de Louvain.
Faivre, N. (2011). Inconscient cognitif et encombrement visuel: Dissociations Entre Conscience Perceptuelle et Traitement en en Vision Périphérique. Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure.
Koenig, R. (2012). How does sense emerge in the visual system? The cognitive visual system explored from categories to consciousness. Centre CNRS CERCO et Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Barragan-Jason, G. (2013). La dynamique de la perception des visages: du percept à la familiarité.
Centre CNRS CERCO et Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Vancleef, K. (2013). Psychophysical and neuropsychological perspectives on perceptual organization with a focus on texture and contour processing. Katholiek Universiteit Leuven (KUL).
Baudouin, J.-Y. (2013). Expert en visage: pourquoi l’est-on, comment le devient-on, pourquoi ne l’est-on plus? Thèse d’habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR). Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Towler, J. (2014). Electrophysiological studies of face processing in typical and prosopagnosic individuals. University of London, UK.
He, W. (2014). Development of face processing in the human brain. Macquarie University, Australia.
Huart, C. (2014). Novel psychophysical and electrophysiological tools to assess human olfactory function and evaluation of their potential for an early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Université catholique de Louvain.
Bukowski, H. (2014). What influences Perspective-Taking? A dynamic and multidimensional approach.
Colon, E. (2014). Steady-state evoked potentials to study nociception and vibrotaction in humans Université catholique de Louvain.
Varatharajah, A. (2016). EEG signal dynamics in unrestricted natural visual search. University of Leicester (UK).