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Blais, C.; Linnell, K. J.; Caparos, S.; Estéphan, A.
Cultural Differences in Face Recognition and Potential Underlying Mechanisms Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 2021, ISSN: 16641078 (ISSN), (Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: cultural psychology, Culture, face identification, Face processing, Visual Perception
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title = {Cultural Differences in Face Recognition and Potential Underlying Mechanisms},
author = {C. Blais and K. J. Linnell and S. Caparos and A. Estéphan},
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issn = {16641078 (ISSN)},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Frontiers in Psychology},
volume = {12},
abstract = {The ability to recognize a face is crucial for the success of social interactions. Understanding the visual processes underlying this ability has been the focus of a long tradition of research. Recent advances in the field have revealed that individuals having different cultural backgrounds differ in the type of visual information they use for face processing. However, the mechanisms that underpin these differences remain unknown. Here, we revisit recent findings highlighting group differences in face processing. Then, we integrate these results in a model of visual categorization developed in the field of psychophysics: the RAP framework. On the basis of this framework, we discuss potential mechanisms, whether face-specific or not, that may underlie cross-cultural differences in face perception. © Copyright © 2021 Blais, Linnell, Caparos and Estéphan.},
note = {Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.},
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Montreuil, V. -L.; Lauzier, M.; Gagnon, S.
A closer look at determinants of organizational capability to innovate (OCI) : A dynamic capabilities perspective Journal Article
In: European Journal of Innovation Management, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 820–847, 2020, ISSN: 14601060 (ISSN), (Publisher: Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Communication, Culture, Leadership, Learning, Organizational capability to innovate, Support
@article{montreuil_closer_2020,
title = {A closer look at determinants of organizational capability to innovate (OCI) : A dynamic capabilities perspective},
author = {V. -L. Montreuil and M. Lauzier and S. Gagnon},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85082182243&doi=10.1108%2fEJIM-05-2019-0127&partnerID=40&md5=6774cf21a4164f9471dc5cbd7db5c89a},
doi = {10.1108/EJIM-05-2019-0127},
issn = {14601060 (ISSN)},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {European Journal of Innovation Management},
volume = {24},
number = {3},
pages = {820–847},
abstract = {Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a portrait of the main managerial and organizational determinants of organizational capability to innovate (OCI). Despite its importance, research on the subject seems limited, and little attempt has been made, over the years, to offer an in-depth and simultaneous analysis of these particular determinants, as well as an exploration of the underlying and complex mechanisms explaining their relationships to OCI. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic review of articles published between 1991 and 2018 was conducted in ProQuest (ABI/INFORM Collection) and Scopus databases. A total of 64 articles were selected and analysed through the use of a coding grid. Findings: Results highlight five key OCI determinants, namely: leadership, support, communication, culture, and learning. By using the dynamic capabilities theory (DCT) as a framework, this research suggests ways to better understand the dynamic action of these determinants as well as their contributions to OCI. Findings also suggest that OCI should be defined at the confluence of three perspectives (human, procedural and environmental aspects) to embrace the multiple facets of this complex construct. Proposals for future research are provided on how OCI can be better examined. Originality/value: This research helps to understand the five core determinants through an integrated and holistic view and represents the first attempt to systematically analyse the scientific literature on OCI through the DCT lens. © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited.},
note = {Publisher: Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.},
keywords = {Communication, Culture, Leadership, Learning, Organizational capability to innovate, Support},
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Tardif, J.; Fiset, D.; Zhang, Y.; Estéphan, A.; Cai, Q.; Luo, C.; Sun, D.; Gosselin, F.; Blais, C.
Culture shapes spatial frequency tuning for face identification Journal Article
In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 294–306, 2017, ISSN: 00961523 (ISSN), (Publisher: American Psychological Association Inc.).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, Canada, China, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cultural factor, Culture, Face processing, Facial Recognition, female, human, Humans, male, perception, physiology, Psychophysics, Social Perception, spatial frequency, Visual Perception, Young Adult
@article{tardif_culture_2017,
title = {Culture shapes spatial frequency tuning for face identification},
author = {J. Tardif and D. Fiset and Y. Zhang and A. Estéphan and Q. Cai and C. Luo and D. Sun and F. Gosselin and C. Blais},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85007170276&doi=10.1037%2fxhp0000288&partnerID=40&md5=ed8796fea4a7a48b33b0aad005ce3872},
doi = {10.1037/xhp0000288},
issn = {00961523 (ISSN)},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance},
volume = {43},
number = {2},
pages = {294–306},
abstract = {Many studies have revealed cultural differences in the way Easterners and Westerners attend to their visual world. It has been proposed that these cultural differences reflect the utilization of different processes, namely holistic processes by Easterners and analytical processes by Westerners. In the face processing literature, eye movement studies have revealed different fixation patterns for Easterners and Westerners that are congruent with a broader spread of attention by Easterners: compared with Westerners, Easterners tend to fixate more toward the center of the face even if they need the information provided by the eyes and mouth. Although this cultural difference could reflect an impact of culture on the visual mechanisms underlying face processing, this interpretation has been questioned by the finding that Easterners and Westerners do not differ on the location of their initial fixations, that is, those that have been shown as being sufficient for face recognition. Because a broader spread of attention is typically linked with the reduced sensitivity to higher spatial frequency, the present study directly compared the spatial frequency tuning of Easterners (Chinese) and Westerners (Canadians) in 2 face recognition tasks (Experiment 1 and 2), along with their general low-level sensitivity to spatial frequencies (Experiment 3). Consistent with our hypothesis, Chinese participants were tuned toward lower spatial frequencies than Canadians participants during the face recognition tasks, despite comparable low-level contrast sensitivity functions. These results strongly support the hypothesis that culture impacts the nature of the visual information extracted during face recognition. © 2016 American Psychological Association.},
note = {Publisher: American Psychological Association Inc.},
keywords = {adult, Canada, China, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cultural factor, Culture, Face processing, Facial Recognition, female, human, Humans, male, perception, physiology, Psychophysics, Social Perception, spatial frequency, Visual Perception, Young Adult},
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Jack, R. E.; Blais, C.; Scheepers, C.; Schyns, P. G.; Caldara, R.
Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are Not Universal Journal Article
In: Current Biology, vol. 19, no. 18, pp. 1543–1548, 2009, ISSN: 09609822 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, article, confusion, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cultural anthropology, Cultural Characteristics, cultural factor, Culture, emotion, Emotions, ethnology, eye movement, Eye movements, Facial Expression, Far East, female, human, human relation, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, male, Photic Stimulation, photostimulation, recognition, Recognition (Psychology), SYSNEURO, Western World
@article{jack_cultural_2009,
title = {Cultural Confusions Show that Facial Expressions Are Not Universal},
author = {R. E. Jack and C. Blais and C. Scheepers and P. G. Schyns and R. Caldara},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-70349289081&doi=10.1016%2fj.cub.2009.07.051&partnerID=40&md5=aedea29c81d3dcc7498c634bf1044e53},
doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051},
issn = {09609822 (ISSN)},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-01-01},
journal = {Current Biology},
volume = {19},
number = {18},
pages = {1543–1548},
abstract = {Central to all human interaction is the mutual understanding of emotions, achieved primarily by a set of biologically rooted social signals evolved for this purpose-facial expressions of emotion. Although facial expressions are widely considered to be the universal language of emotion [1-3], some negative facial expressions consistently elicit lower recognition levels among Eastern compared to Western groups (see [4] for a meta-analysis and [5, 6] for review). Here, focusing on the decoding of facial expression signals, we merge behavioral and computational analyses with novel spatiotemporal analyses of eye movements, showing that Eastern observers use a culture-specific decoding strategy that is inadequate to reliably distinguish universal facial expressions of "fear" and "disgust." Rather than distributing their fixations evenly across the face as Westerners do, Eastern observers persistently fixate the eye region. Using a model information sampler, we demonstrate that by persistently fixating the eyes, Eastern observers sample ambiguous information, thus causing significant confusion. Our results question the universality of human facial expressions of emotion, highlighting their true complexity, with critical consequences for cross-cultural communication and globalization. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
keywords = {adult, article, confusion, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cultural anthropology, Cultural Characteristics, cultural factor, Culture, emotion, Emotions, ethnology, eye movement, Eye movements, Facial Expression, Far East, female, human, human relation, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, male, Photic Stimulation, photostimulation, recognition, Recognition (Psychology), SYSNEURO, Western World},
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Côté, S.; Bouchard, S.
Cognitive mechanisms underlying virtual reality exposure Journal Article
In: Cyberpsychology and Behavior, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 121–129, 2009, ISSN: 10949313 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Adaptation, adult, aged, Animals, arachnophobia, Arousal, article, avoidance behavior, cardiovascular response, clinical article, cognition, Culture, female, Heart Rate, human, Humans, Implosive Therapy, male, Middle Aged, Personality Assessment, phobia, Phobic Disorders, prediction, Psychological, questionnaire, Questionnaires, regression analysis, scoring system, Self Efficacy, spider, Spiders, structured interview, task performance, treatment outcome, User-Computer Interface, virtual reality, Young Adult
@article{cote_cognitive_2009,
title = {Cognitive mechanisms underlying virtual reality exposure},
author = {S. Côté and S. Bouchard},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-64749106909&doi=10.1089%2fcpb.2008.0008&partnerID=40&md5=e9bd263ea9e1940b66910d9651bd119e},
doi = {10.1089/cpb.2008.0008},
issn = {10949313 (ISSN)},
year = {2009},
date = {2009-01-01},
journal = {Cyberpsychology and Behavior},
volume = {12},
number = {2},
pages = {121–129},
abstract = {Many studies have assessed virtual reality exposures efficacy, but very few examined its treatment processes. The addition of objective measures of arousal and information processing mechanisms would be a valuable contribution in order to provide a more complete and detailed picture. The goal of this study was to better document the cognitive mechanisms associated with therapeutic change after an in virtuo exposure treatment. Twenty-eight adults suffering from arachnophobia were assessed and received an exposure-based treatment using virtual reality. General outcome and specific processes measures included a battery of standardized questionnaires, a pictorial emotional Stroop task, a Behavioral Avoidance Test, and a measure of participants' cardiac response while they looked at a live tarantula. The analyses showed that changes in perceived self-efficacy and dysfunctional beliefs were the best predictors of change in general outcome and cardiac response; change in dysfunctional beliefs were the best predictor of change in behavioral avoidance. These innovative results provide a very detailed and organized picture of the complex cognitive mechanisms involved in therapeutic change following in virtuo exposure for arachnophobia. © 2009 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.},
keywords = {Adaptation, adult, aged, Animals, arachnophobia, Arousal, article, avoidance behavior, cardiovascular response, clinical article, cognition, Culture, female, Heart Rate, human, Humans, Implosive Therapy, male, Middle Aged, Personality Assessment, phobia, Phobic Disorders, prediction, Psychological, questionnaire, Questionnaires, regression analysis, scoring system, Self Efficacy, spider, Spiders, structured interview, task performance, treatment outcome, User-Computer Interface, virtual reality, Young Adult},
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Blais, C.; Jack, R. E.; Scheepers, C.; Fiset, D.; Caldara, R.
Culture shapes how we look at faces Journal Article
In: PLoS ONE, vol. 3, no. 8, 2008, ISSN: 19326203 (ISSN).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adult, article, Asian, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Caucasian, Classification, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cultural anthropology, cultural factor, Culture, East Asian, European Continental Ancestry Group, Eye, eye fixation, eye movement, Eye movements, Face, face asymmetry, face recognition, female, Fixation, histology, human, human experiment, Humans, Learning, male, methodology, Mouth, normal human, Nose, observer variation, Ocular, physiology, race difference, recognition, Recognition (Psychology), vision, visual memory, Visual Perception
@article{blais_culture_2008,
title = {Culture shapes how we look at faces},
author = {C. Blais and R. E. Jack and C. Scheepers and D. Fiset and R. Caldara},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-51549087752&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0003022&partnerID=40&md5=e75dcf9792dbd03fd1ef5894b81bfc4f},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0003022},
issn = {19326203 (ISSN)},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
journal = {PLoS ONE},
volume = {3},
number = {8},
abstract = {Background: Face processing, amongst many basic visual skills, is thought to be invariant across all humans. From as early as 1965, studies of eye movements have consistently revealed a systematic triangular sequence of fixations over the eyes and the mouth, suggesting that faces elicit a universal, biologically-determined information extraction pattern. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here we monitored the eye movements of Western Caucasian and East Asian observers while they learned, recognized, and categorized by race Western Caucasian and East Asian faces. Western Caucasian observers reproduced a scattered triangular pattern of fixations for faces of both races and across tasks. Contrary to intuition, East Asian observers focused more on the central region of the face. Conclusions/Significance: These results demonstrate that face processing can no longer be considered as arising from a universal series of perceptual events. The strategy employed to extract visual information from faces differs across cultures. © 2008 Blais et al.},
keywords = {adult, article, Asian, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Caucasian, Classification, Cross-Cultural Comparison, cultural anthropology, cultural factor, Culture, East Asian, European Continental Ancestry Group, Eye, eye fixation, eye movement, Eye movements, Face, face asymmetry, face recognition, female, Fixation, histology, human, human experiment, Humans, Learning, male, methodology, Mouth, normal human, Nose, observer variation, Ocular, physiology, race difference, recognition, Recognition (Psychology), vision, visual memory, Visual Perception},
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