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CURRICULUM VITAE February, 2012

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

“Assistant professor and researcher” at the Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. 

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).

 

Scientific Prize

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

 

Grants

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.

Publications

Papers

Ouellet, M., Román, A., & Santiago, J. (in press). A multisensory interaction effect in the conceptual realm of time. Experimental Psychology. DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000148

Santiago, J., Ouellet, M., Román, A., & Valenzuela, J. (in press). Attentional factors in conceptual congruency. Cognitive Science.

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 Primeras Jornadas sobre Innovación Docente en Psicología, held in Granada, March 3-4, 2005.

 

Conference Participation

Communications

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

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

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

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

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

Assistant professor of Neurobiologie des comportements I (Behavioral Neurobiology I), Dept. of Psychology, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2012- 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.
Spanish: Written and spoken, advanced level.

 

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.

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