Research Interests

- Attentional limitations in human information processing
- Effects of attention and experience on perception

Representative Projects

- Task-set and perceptual representation.
- Perceptual learning in masking.
- Rapid extraction and integration of meaning over time.
- Effects of action on perception.

Representative Publications

Oriet, C., & Jolicœur, P. (2008). Differential central resource demands of memory scanning and visual search: The role of consistent and varied mapping. Visual Cognition, 16, 514 – 551.

Schweizer, T. A., Oriet, C., Meiran, N., Alexander, M. P., Cusimano, M., & Stuss, D. T. (2007). The cerebellum mediates conflict resolution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 74 - 82.

Enns, J. T., & Oriet, C. (2007). Similarity in masking and priming: The critical role of task relevance. Advances in Cognitive Psychology Special issue on: Visual masking and the dynamics of human perception, cognition, and consciousness, 3, 211 – 226

Bennett, J., Lleras, A., Oriet, C., & Enns, J. T. (2007). Category updating explains positive and negative priming of human faces. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 908 – 912.

Oriet, C., Stevanovski, B., & Jolicœur, P. (2007). Feature binding and episodic retrieval in blindness for congruent stimuli: Evidence from analyses of sequential congruency. Psychological Research/ Psychologische Forschung. Special issue on: Integration in and across perception and action, 71, 30 - 41.

Corbett, J. E., Oriet, C., & Rensink, R. A. (2006). The rapid extraction of numeric meaning. Vision Research, 46, 1559 - 1573.

Oriet, C., Tombu, M., & Jolicœur, P. (2005). Symbolic distance affects two processing loci in the number comparison task. Memory & Cognition, 33, 913 -26.

Stevanovski, B., Oriet, C., & Jolicœur, P. (2003). Can blindness to response-compatible stimuli be observed in the absence of a response? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 431 - 40.

Oriet, C. & Jolicœur, P. (2003). Absence of perceptual processing during reconfiguration of task-set. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 1036 - 49.

Laboratory Facilities

Separate laboratory space; computer facilities available.