M.Ouellet (español - English - français).


Psychology of language

Ph.D. Marc Ouellet

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Ph.D. Marc Ouellet

 

Email:

mouellet@ugr.es

  

CURRICULUM VITAE May, 2017

Personal

Marc Ouellet, born in Chicoutimi (Canada), June 5th, 1978. European resident.

 

Research Interests

  • Production (programming and control) of skilled behaviour, with special reference to language and speech.
  • Language development and disorders.
  • Neural bases of language and skill.
  • Linguistic relativity.
  • Autism.
  • Meaning and mental representation. Metaphors. Mental models. Language and space.

 

Professional Situation

He is now a tenured lecturer (on leave) at the department "Psychologie, Sciences Sociales et Sciences de l’Éducation" at Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand (France). He is also working at University of Granada (Spain) thanks to a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral fellowship (JCI-2012-13046) from the Spanish MEC. 

Qualifications

PhD. Thesis, When Time Flows from Left to Right: Psychological Reality, Experiential Basis and Cognitive Mechanisms, presented at the Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada, September, 2009. Advisor: Julio Santiago, PhD. Mark: Apt cum laude.

Doctorate courses, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting and Department of Experimental Psychology and Behavioural Physiology, University of Granada (2003-2004), with a final mark of A.

Master’s thesis, Spanish Lexical Stress: Evidence for a Dual-Route Model, presented at the Dept. of Translation and Interpreting and Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Behavioural Physiology, University of Granada, September, 2005. Advisor: Julio Santiago, PhD. Mark: A.

Poetry honour mention granted by the UQAC (Universities of Chicoutimi, Quebec) network jury (2001).

University Students Representative of the Arts Department, University of Chicoutimi, Quebec (1999-2001).

Bachelors of Arts in Literature and Linguistics, University of Chicoutimi, Quebec, an international program in conjunction with the University of Sorbone Paris IV, (2003).

 

Doctorate Courses

Doctorate program: Processes on Translation and Interpretation. Dept. of Translation and Interpreting and Department of Experimental Psychology and Behavioural Physiology, University of Granada.

Courses attended:

Experimental Design
The Notions of Equivalence within the Cognitive Metaphor Approach in Modern Translation
Mental Lexicon and Knowledge Structures
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Language Production
Processes on Attention and Problem Solving
Cognitive Theories of Translation: Linguistic Fundamentals and State of the Art

 

Memberships

Member of the Research Group on Psycholinguistics, headed by Dr. Alfonso Palma, Dept. Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada (2004 on).

Associated member of the SEPEX (Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology).

Associated member of the COGSCI (Cognitive Science Society).

Associated member of the APA (American Psychology Association).

Associated member of the APS (Association for Psychological Science).

 

Scientific Prize

In 2011 he was awarded the APA Division 3 (American Psychological Association, Division of Experimental Psychology) New Investigator Award.

 

Grants

Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowship (JCI-2012-13046) from the Spanish MEC, University of Granada (Spain), from 15-12-2014 to 14-12-2017.

Marie Curie postdoctoral Grant, FP7 (INT) program, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), from 01-10-2010 to 30-09-2011.

Postdoctoral Grant, “Puente” program, from the University of Granada (Spain), from 01-10-2009 to 30-09-2010.

PhD Training Grant (Beca de Formación del Personal Docente e Investigador), Andalucian council (Spain), from 01-12-2004 to 30-09-2008.

Fellowship grant offered by the SEPEX (Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology) to assist at the Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning : A workshop and debate, held in Garachico, Tenerife, Spain (16-18 Decembre, 2005).

Doctorate grant from the MEQ (Ministry of Educaton of Quebec) to pursue PhD studies in Spain (2003).

CREPUQ’s grant to finish my university studies in France (2002-2003).

OFQJ’s grant to finish my university studies in France (2002).

 

Stays Abroad

Servicio de Resonancia Magnética para Investigaciones Biomédicas (Magnetic Resonance Services for Biomedical Research), University of La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), from June 21rst, 2010, to July 09th, 2010. Under the supervision of Dr. Inma León, I learned to program and run experiments with the fMRI technique. Results of this study should be published soon.

Behavioural Brain Science center (BBS), University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, from November, 2005 to October 2006. This stay was supported by the Beca de Formación del Personal Docente e Investigador (PhD Training Grant). Under the supervision of Dr. Antje S. Meyer, I learned to program, run and analyze experiments with the Eye-Tracking system. The results of one of the experiments we realized are now published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.

Funded Research Projects

Conceptualización del tiempo: relación con la atención, espacio, emoción y toma de decisiones a través de individuos, culturas y religiones (Temporal thought: relation to attention, space, emotion and decision making across individuals, cultures, and religions), ref. PSI2015-67531-P, to Julio Santiago (Principal Investigator), Daniel Casasanto, Tilbe Göksun, Alex Kranjec, Joseph Lavallee, Marc Ouellet, and Slavica Tutnjevic. Funded by the Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitivity, Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia, 2016-2018, 38400 €.

Vinculando los conceptos a la experiencia: Iconicidad en el lenguaje oral, signado y escrito (Grounding concepts in experience: Iconicity in oral, signed, and written language), ref. PSI2012-32464, to Julio Santiago (Principal Investigator), Gabriella Vigliocco, Daniel Casasanto, Abderrahman El Fathi, Marc Ouellet, and Jose Isidro Martínez-Cascales. Funded by the Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitivity, Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (I+D+i), 2013-2015, 49000 €.

Metáforas conceptuales: Lenguaje, pensamiento y cerebro (Conceptual metaphors: Language, thought and brain), ref. P09-SEJ-4772, to Julio Santiago (Principal Investigator), Javier Valenzuela, Daniel Casasanto, Mitchell Valdés, Sylvie Chokron, Cristina Soriano and Abderrahman El Fathi. Funded by the Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía, and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), 2010-2014. 157923 €.

He worked as a member (from 01/10/2010 to 30/09/2011) for the projet Enhancing Literacy Development in European Languages (ELDEL), ref. 215961, Principal Investigator: Markéta Caravolas Manzanares. Funded by Marie Curie Actions, FP7(ITN) program, 01/09/2008-31/08/2012.3 750 000€

Lingüística cognitiva y realidad psicolingüística: validación psicolingüística de algunos constructos clave en la lingüística cognitiva (metáforas, construcciones, fonemas y relativismo lingüístico) (Cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistic reality: psycholinguistic validation of some key constructs in cognitive linguistics (metaphor, constructions, phonemes and linguistic relativism)), ref. 05817/PHCS/07, to Javier Valenzuela (Principal Investigator), Antonio Barcelona, Cristina Soriano, Ana Rojo, Iraide Ibarretxe, Jose Antonio Mompeán, Rafael Rocamora, Juana Marín, Paula Cifuentes, Pilar Mompeán, Marc Ouellet and Julio Santiago. Funded by the Fundación SENECA, 2008-2010. 23 000 €.

Metáforas Conceptuales: Realidad Psicológica, Flexibilidad y Bases Cerebrales (Conceptual metaphors: Psychological Reality, Flexibility and Brain Basis), ref. SEJ2006-04732/PSIC, to Julio Santiago (Principal Investigator), Javier Valenzuela, Daniel Casasanto, Marc Ouellet and Mitchell Valdés. Funded by the DGI, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spanish Ministry of Education and Science), Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (I+D+i), 01/10/2006-30/09/2009. 76 956 €.

He worked for the Marcos Estructurales en Percepción, Producción y Adquisición del Lenguaje. (Structural Frames in Language Perception, Production, and Acquisition), ref. BS02002-02993, to Alfonso Palma (Principal Investigator), Julio Santiago and Nicolás Gutiérrez. Funded by the DGESIC, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture), Programa Sectorial de Promoción General del Conocimiento (Program for General Promotion of Knowledge), 2002-2005. 23 000 €.

Publications

Papers

Barca, L., Pezzulo, G., Ouellet, M., & Ferrand, L. (under review).Dynamic lexical decisions in French:Evidence for a feedback inconsistency effect. Acta Psychologica.

IglesiasFernández, E., & Ouellet, M. (under review). From the phone to the classroom.Categories of problems for telephone interpreting training. The Interpreters' Newsletter.

Spatola, N., Santiago, J., Beffara, B., Mermillod, M., Ferrand, L., & Ouellet, M. (under review). When the sad past is left: the conceptual maps between Time, Valence, and Space. Quaterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Iglesias Fernández, E., Ouellet, M., & Wang, C.(under review). Interpreting students´ knowledge of scoring criteria. Exploring cultural and gender differences for a better design of the pleasant voice criterion in interpreting evaluation. IGI Global.

Beffara, B., Wicker, B., Vermeulen, N., Ouellet, M., Bret, A., Funes Molina, M.J., & Mermillod, M. (2015). Does Low Spatial Frequency Information Really Have a Preferential Role in Emotional Frontal Inhibition? Journal of vision. 15 - 6, pp. 16, 1 - 9. PDF

Beffara, B., Ouellet, M., Vermeulen, N., Basu, A., Morisseau, T., & Mermillod, M. (2012). Enhanced embodied response following ambiguous emotional processing. Cognitive Processing, 13, S103-S106. PDF

Ouellet, M., Román, A., & Santiago, J. (2012). A multisensory interaction effect in the conceptual realm of time. Experimental Psychology, 59, 236-242. PDF

Santiago, J., Ouellet, M., Román, A., & Valenzuela, J. (2012). Attentional factors in conceptual congruency. Cognitive Science, 36, 1051-1077. PDF

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., Israeli, Z., & Gabay, S. (2010). Is the future the right time? Experimental Psychology, 57, 308-314. PDF

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., Funes, M. J., & Lupiáñez, J. (2010). Thinking about the future moves attention to the right. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human, Perception and Performance, 36, 17-24. PDF

Santiago, J., Román, A., Ouellet, M., Rodríguez, N., & Pérez-Azor, P. (2010). In hindsight, life flows from left to right. Psychological Research, 74, 59-70. PDF

Meyer, A. S., Ouellet, M., & Häcker, C. (2008). Parallel processing of objects in a naming task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 34, 982-987. PDF

Book Chapters & Proceedings

Santiago, J., Román, A., & Ouellet, M. (2011) Flexible foundations of abstract thought: A review and a theory. In A. Maas & T. Schubert (Eds). Spatial dimensions of social thought (pp. 39-108). Leipzig, Germany: de Gruyter Mouton.

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., Funes, M. J., & Lupiáñez, J.(2010). Orientación espacial de la atención mediante conceptos temporales. In E. Añaños, S. Estaun & M. T. Mas (Eds.). La Atención (IV): Un enfoque pluridisciplinar (pp. 29-41). Barcelona: Montflorit Edicions i Assessoraments, S.L.

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., Israeli, Z., & Gabay, S. (2009). Multimodal influences of orthographic directionality on the "Time is Space" conceptual metaphor. In Niels Taatgen & Hedderik van Rijn (Eds). Proceedings of 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1840-45). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society, Inc.

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., García-Krafes, E., & Román, A. (2007). Spanish Lexical Stress: Evidence for a dual-route model. In Mª Manuela Fernández Sánchez y Ricardo Muñoz Martín (Coord.), Aproximaciones cognitivas al estudio de la traducción y la interpretación (pp. 147-168). Granada:Editorial Comares, S.L..

Meetings and Courses Organized

Member of the organizing committee of the V Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Innovación Docente en las Titulaciones Técnicas, to be held in Granada, Octobre 20, 2017.

Member of the organizing committee of the Primeras Jornadas sobre Innovación Docente en Psicología, held in Granada, March 3-4, 2005.

 

Conference Participation

Communications

Spatola, N., Santiago, J., & Ouellet, M. A new and implicit tool to assess the severity of depression: the time machine, oral presentation for the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada (Spain), May 5-8, 2016

Ouellet, M., Alamargot, D., Pacton, S., Pontart, V. & Fayol, M. Understanding better graphotactic processings, oral presentation for the 7th ELDEL workshop, Poitiers (France), November 10-13, 2011.

Ouellet, M., Alamargot, D., Pacton, S., Pontart, V. & Fayol, M. Graphotactic processings, oral presentation for the ELDEL international conference, Prague (Czech Republic), June 4-5, 2011.

Ouellet, M. (2011). La pensée abstraite, un processus de cohérence, invited speaker, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (Francia), February 17, 2011.

Ouellet, M., Castellanos, C. & Santiago, J. Brain basis of the left-right mental time line as revealed by ERPs, oral presentation for the 4th MET project meeting, Granada, June 4-5, 2010.

Ouellet, M., Israeli, Z., Gabay, S., Román, A., & Santiago, J. Cultural and modal aspects of the TIME IS SPACE conceptual metaphor, oral presentation for the IX Simposio de Psicolingüística, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), April 23-25, 2009.

Ouellet, M., Israeli, Z., & Santiago, J. Does the direction of writing affect our spatial representation of time?, oral presentation for the 10th conference of the ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Krakow (Poland), July 15-20, 2007.

Ouellet, M., Haecker, C., & Meyer, A. S. Disociando entre prime de homófonos y primes fonológicos, un estudio de movimientos oculares y tiempo de reacción, oral presentation for the VI congress of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), July, 6-9, 2006.

Gutiérrez, N., Santiago, J., & Ouellet, M. La asignción del acento léxico en español, oral presentation for the VI congress of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), July, 6-9, 2006.

Posters

Ouellet, M., & Navech, O. How much do weigh 8 gigabytes?, poster presented at the 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Paphos (Cyprus), September 17-20, 2015.

Ouellet, M., Leonard, C., & Morge, L. CORDELEC a new mechanical analogy to learn electrocinetics, poster presented at the 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Paphos (Cyprus), September 17-20, 2015.

Spatola, N., Santiago, J., Beffara, B., Mermillod, M., & Ouellet, M. The non-conglomerate conceptual mappings between Time, Valence and Space and how a bad mood makes you look towards the past, poster presented at the 19th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Paphos (Cyprus), September 17-20, 2015.

Spatola, N., Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., Beffara, B., & Mermillod, M. Processing three conceptual metaphors at the same time with a bad mood, poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Quebec (Canada), July 23-26, 2014.

Ouellet, M., Spatola, N., Sémery, G., Beffara, B., Mermillod, M. & Santiago de Torres, J. When the sad past is Left, poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: “Space and Embodied Cognition” (ICSC), Roma (Italy), 4-8 September, 2012.

Beffara, B., Ouellet, M., Vermeulen, N., Basu, A., Morisseau, T. & Mermillod, M. Enhanced embodied response following ambiguous emotional processing, poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: “Space and Embodied Cognition” (ICSC), Roma (Italy), 4-8 September, 2012.

Santiago, J., Ouellet, M., Román A. & Valenzuela, J. (2010) How attention mediates conceptual metaphor effects in congruency tasks, poster presentation for the VIIth AELCO meeting (Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva), Toledo, Septembre 30 - Octobre 02, 2010.

Ouellet, M., Israeli, Z., Gabay, S., & Santiago, J. Multimodal influences of orthographic directionality on the "Time is Space" conceptual metaphor, poster presentation for the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam (Netherlands), July, 29 - August, 1, 2009.

Román, A., Ouellet, M., & Santiago, J. Gradientes de inercia en la representación mental de los objetos en movimiento, poster presentation for the IX Simposio de Psicolingüística, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), April 23-25, 2009.

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J.,  Lupiañez, J., & Funes, M. J. Orientación espacial de la atención mediante conceptos temporales, poster presentation for the RECA VI (Scientific Meeting on Attention), Barcelona (Spain), April 12-14, 2007.

Ouellet, M., Haecker, C., & Meyer, A. S. The effects of homophonous and phonologically related primes in object naming tasks, poster presentation for the EPS (Experimental Psychology Society), Plymouth (UK), July 10-12, 2006.

Santiago, J., Ouellet, M., & Román, A. Time (also) flies from left to right, poster presentation for the Symbols, Embodiment, and Meaning : A workshop and debate, Garachico, Tenerife (Spain), Decembre, 16-18, 2005.

Santiago, J., Gutiérrez, N., Ouellet, M., Bouachra, O., & Rodríguez, N. Priming lexical stress, poster presentation for the XIV ESCOP (European Society of Cognitive Psychology) conference, Leiden (Netherlands), August, 31 - Septiembre, 3, 2005.

Santiago, J., Gutiérrez, N., Ouellet, M., Román, A., Bouachra, O. & Rodríguez, N. Mechanisms of Lexical Stress Priming, poster presentation for the VII Simposio de Psicolingüística, Valencia (Spain), April 14-16, 2005.

Ouellet, M., Santiago, J., & Román, A. La producción del acento léxico en español, poster presentation for the V congress of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), Madrid (Spain), March, 25-27, 2004.

 

Teaching Experience

Lecturer of Psychobiologie de la Cognition (Psychobiology of cognition) Social and Cognitive Psychology Master Program of the Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2013-2014. (18 h)

Lecturer of Éthique en recherche avec des êtres humains (Ethics when carrying research with human beigns) Social and Cognitive Psychology Master Program of the Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2013-2014. (3 h)

Lecturer of Methodologie 4 (Methodology 4), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2013-2014. (30 h)

Lecturer of Psychologie cognitive II (Cognitive Psychology II), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2013-2014. (60 h)

Lecturer of Neurobiologie des comportements I (Behavioral Neurobiology I), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2013-2014. (36 h)

Lecturer of Neurobiologie des comportements II (Behavioral Neurobiology II), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2013-2014. (36 h)

Assistant professor of Statistiques I (Statistics I), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2012-2013. (55 h)

Assistant professor of Psychologie cognitive I (Cognitive Psychology I), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2011-2012. (24 h)

Assistant professor of Psychologie cognitive II (Cognitive Psychology II), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2011-2012. (48 h)

Assistant professor of Methodologie 6 (Methodology 6), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2011-2012. (16 h)

Assistant professor of Neurobiologie des comportements I (Behavioral Neurobiology I), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2011-2012. (66 h)

Assistant professor of Neurobiologie des comportements II (Behavioral Neurobiology II), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2011- 2012. (39 h)

Assistant professor of Memoria y representación (Memory and representation), Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada (Spain), 2009- 2010. (20 h)

Assistant professor of Psicología del Lenguaje (Psychology of Language), Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada (Spain), 2008- 2009. (40 h)

Assistant professor of Sistemas alternativos de Comunicación (Alternative Communication Systems), Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada (Spain), 2007-2008 and 2008-2009. (20 h & 20 h)

Assistant professor of Historia de la Psicología (History of Psychology), Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada (Spain), 2007- 2008. (40 h)

Assistant professor of Neurociencia Cognitiva del Lenguaje (Cognitive Neuroscience of Language), Dept. of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behaviour, University of Granada (Spain), 2006-2007. (15 h)

 

Languages

French: Native Language.
English: Written and spoken, advanced level (C1).
Spanish: Written and spoken, advanced level (C1).

 

Volunteer

Reviewer of university and professional works for the residents of the Spanish College in Paris.
Teacher of French for Chicoutimian’s College students with difficulties.