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Current situation: I am  a postdoctoral fellow  in Pell's Lab, Neuropragmatics and Emotion Lab, in McGill University (Montreal, Canada) from March 2010. I developed with Dr. MD Pell  a project to investigate crossmodal interactions in emotion processing.

S. Rigoulot & M.D. Pell, Seeing emotion with your ears: Emotional prosody implicitly guides visual attention to faces (submitted, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General).

M.D. Pell, B. Radlinska, S. Rigoulot, E. Klepousniotou, B. Pike. Voices of emotion in brain  (in preparation).

My work in LNFP: The work of my thesis was about the interactions between two important adaptative functions: Vision and Emotion. It is well established that visual performances drop with eccentricity. As a consequence, most studies about processing of emotional information always presented stimulations in the center of visual field, where visual performance are the best, but never in large eccentric positions, i.e. in peripheral vision. The general objective of this thesis was to investigate behavioral and neural correlates of peripheral vision and to explore modulations induced by the emotional value of the stimulations (scenes, faces).

We showed for the first time that the saliency of emotional scenes and faces persist in peripheral vision, despite of the drop of visual performance and we bring new perspectives in reeducation of pathologies of central vision by the use of stimulations able to capture attentional ressources in peripheral vision.   

S. Rigoulot, F. D’Hondt, S. Defoort-Dhellemmes, P. Despretz, J. Honoré, H. Sequeira (2011) Perceiving fearful faces in peripheral vision: behavioral and ERP evidence (in Press, Neuropsychologia)

S. Rigoulot, S. Delplanque, P. Despretz, S. Defoort-Dhellemmes, J. Honoré, H. Sequeira (2008) Peripherally Presented Emotional Scenes: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Early ERP Responses,  Brain Topography, 20(4), 216-23.

• Keywords: Emotion, Central and Peripheral Vision, Event-Related Potentials (ERP), spatio-temporal Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Faces, Scenes, IAPS, KDEF, McBrain, pathologies of central vision (Dégénérescence Maculaire Liée à l'Age, Age-related Macular Disease)

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 Fig.1. Grand average (n=16 participants) in response to fearful and neutral faces presented at -30 and -15° (in the left visual field) and at +15 and +30° (in the right visual field). 

Fig.2. Amplitudes of P100 in left (PO7 electrode), central (Oz) and right hemisphere (PO8). Please note the largest responses when faces are presented in central vision and when the faces are projected in left visual field for right electrode  and invertly (contralateral activations).

fig.3. Amplitudes of N170 component for fearful (red line), neutral (blue) and happy (green) faces presented in peripheral vision.  

Recent Publications

8. S. Rigoulot, F. D’Hondt, S. Defoort-Dhellemmes, P. Despretz, J. Honoré, H. Sequeira (2011) Perceiving fearful faces in peripheral vision: behavioral and ERP evidence (in Press, Neuropsychologia).

7. S. Rigoulot & M.D. Pell, Seeing emotion with your ears: Emotional prosody implicitly guides visual attention to faces (submitted, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General).

6. S. Rigoulot, F. D’Hondt, S. Defoort-Dhellemmes, P. Despretz, J. Honoré, H. Sequeira. Emotional implicit categorization in peripheral vision: an ERP study (in preparation).

5. M.D. Pell, B. Radlinska, S. Rigoulot, E. Klepousniotou, B. Pike. Voices of emotion in brain  (in preparation).

4. M. Rossignol,  P. Phillipot, C. Bissot, S. Rigoulot,  and S. Campanella, Electrophysiological correlates of enhanced perceptual  process and attentional capture by emotional faces in social anxiety (In Review, Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience).

3. F. D’Hondt, O. Collignon, A.S. Dubarry, M. Robert, S. Rigoulot, J. Honoré, F. Lepore, M. Lassonde, H. Sequeira (2010) Early brain-body impact of emotional arousal. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol.4, Article 33.

2. S. Rigoulot, S. Delplanque, P. Despretz, S. Defoort-Dhellemmes, J. Honoré, H. Sequeira (2008) Peripherally Presented Emotional Scenes: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Early ERP Responses,  Brain Topography, 20(4), 216-23.

1. S. Delplanque, L. Silvert, P. Hot, S. Rigoulot and H. Sequeira (2006) Arousal and valence effects on event-related P3a and P3b during emotional categorization, International Journal of Psychophysiology, 60(3), 315-322.

 Recent communications

 Teaching experience

2009-2010 A.T.E.R. (research and teaching assistant) University of Lille 1, France (150h in Psychology [Emotion, Memory, Neuroanatomy,...)

2007-2010 Lecturer of graduate-level course in Universitary and Polytechnic Federation of Lille, Psychopharmacology (6h).

2005-2010 Lecturer of graduate-level course in Universitary and Polytechnic Federation of Lille, Psychobiology (10h).

2006-2007 Practical works in University of Lille 3, on electrophysiological measures and electrodermal activity (EEG, ECG, EMG, EDA) (40 h).

 Research student supervision

2008-2009    C. Brochot, mémoire de T.E.R. « Expressions faciales dynamiques en vision    centrale et périphérique », Master de Psychologie, 42 p.

2007-2008     F. D’Hondt, mémoire de T.E.R. « Impact de l’expression faciale de peur en   vision périphérique », Master de Psychologie, 49 p.

  M. Taisne, mémoire de T.E.R. « Impact de l’expression faciale de joie en vision   périphérique », Master de Psychologie, 44 p.

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