Biography
I am a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), in the Visual and Social Perception Laboratory (LPVS), under the joint supervision of Professors Caroline Blais and Daniel Fiset. My dissertation, titled “Mental Representations and Temporal Courses in the Social and Emotional Processing of Faces,” focuses in particular on sex- and gender-related differences in the expression and perception of facial expressions of pain.
Since pain is less readily recognized in women, my research aims to better understand the factors contributing to biases in pain recognition. I am particularly interested in the characteristics of facial expressions, mental representations (our expectations of what a facial expression looks like), and the neural mechanisms involved in their processing. By combining behavioral, computational, and electrophysiological approaches, my research seeks to deepen our understanding of the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that influence the interpretation of pain and contribute to sex- and gender-related differences.
