Research Interests

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

Representative Projects

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

Recent Funding 

•  NSERC Discovery Grant (2011 - 2015): Applications of Statistical Summary Representations
•  NSERC Discovery Grant (2006 - 2011): Task-set Modulation of Perceptual Representation  
•  CFI Leader's Opportunity Fund (with K. Arbuthnott and D. Hepting): Proposal for Development of  the Regina Integrated Cogntive Experimentation (RICE) Lab

Representative Publications

Brand, J. O., Oriet, C., & Sykes Tottenham, L. (in press). Size and emotion averaging: Costs of dividing attention after all. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 

Hatin, B. D., Sykes Tottenham, L., & Oriet, C.  (in press).  The relationship between pseudoneglect and collisions:  Is it right?  Cortex. 

Corbett, J. E., & Oriet, C. (2011). The whole is indeed more than the sum of its parts: Perceptual averaging in the absence of individual item representation.  Acta Psychologica, 138, 289 - 301.

Fitzgerald, R., Oriet, C., & Price, H. L. (2011). Change detection inflates confidence on a subsequent recognition task.  Memory, 19, 879 - 890.

Whiting, B. F., & Oriet, C. Rapid averaging?  Not so fast! (2011).  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 484 – 489.  

Oriet, C., & Enns, J. T. (2010).  The role of temporal synchrony in object formation and updating.  Visual Cognition, 18, 1179 - 1213.  

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

RICE Lab (with K. Arbuthnott & D. Hepting; funded by CFI), RI 115 

• 12 individual cubicles for data collection, equipped with over-the-shoulder POV IP cameras
• One mass testing room, with seating for app. 16; equipped with overhead projector and 2 IP cameras
• 16 iMacs and 3 PCs (with CRT monitors)
• E-Prime, SuperLab, ExperimentBuilder, and MEL software for data collection
• EyeLink II head-mounted eye tracker; desk-mounted eye tracker also available
• Apple XServe 3TB server