Pascale Michelon     Ph.D., 1999   Adjunct Faculty

Washington University , St Louis

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Research interests Publications Honors, Fellowships, & Awards Experimental Psychology 301 - Spring 2008 Academic and Professional History

 

Research interests
 

• The effects of age on visuospatial reasoning
  
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• Visuo-spatial images: their generation and transformation
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• Visual perspective taking
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• The processing of gaze as an attentional cue

Publications
 

Journal Articles

• Zacks, J. M., Michelon, P. M.,  Vettel, J. M., Ojemann  (2004). Functional reorganization of spatial transformations after a parietal lesion. Neurology, 63, 287-292.    PDF
  

• Michelon, P., Snyder, A. Z., Buckner, R. L., MacAvoy, M. & Zacks, J. M. (2003). Neural correlates of incongruity: an fMRI study. NeuroImage, 19,1612-1626.   PDF

• Zacks, J. M., Vettel, J., & Michelon, P. (2003). Imagined viewer and object rotations dissociated with event-related fMRI. Journal of Cognitive neuroscience, 15, 1002-1018.    PDF

• Michelon, P. & Zacks, J. M. (2003). What is primed in priming from imagery ? Psychological Research, 67, 71-79.    PDF

• Michelon, P, & Biederman, I. (2003). Less impairment in face imagery than face perception in early prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 41 , 421-441    PDF

• Michelon, P., & Koenig, O. (2002). On the relationship between visual imagery and visual perception: Evidence from priming studies. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14 (2), 161-184.   PDF

• Koenig, O., & Michelon, P. (1999). What's behind the window ? The importance of a computational analysis. CPC / Current Psychology of Cognition, 18 (4), 541-547.

Book Chapters

• Michelon, P., & Snyder, A. Z. (2006). Neural correlates of incongruity. In J. B. Worthen & R. R. Hunt (Eds.), Distinctiveness and memory, pp.361-380. New York: Oxford University Press.

•  Michelon, P, & Koenig, O. (in press). L'intéraction imagerie-perception. In E. Mellet & O. Koenig (Eds.), Bases neurales de l'imagerie mentale. Hermes: Middlesex.

Conference proceedings and abtracts

• Zacks, J. M., Michelon, P., Vettel, J. M., Ojemann, J. (2004). Functional reorganization of spatial transformations after a parietal resection. Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (11).

• Michelon, P., Boyer, P., & Zacks, M. J. (2003). Gaze-triggered reflexive orienting to socially relevant stimuli. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society (8).

• Zacks, J. M., Vettel, J. M., & Michelon, P. (2003). Dissociating Imagined Rotations of Objects and the Self With Event-Related fMRI. Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (10).

• Michelon, P., Snyder, A. Z., Buckner, R. L. & Zacks, M. J. (2003). Neural correlates of incongruity. Proceedings of the Southwestern Psychological Association meeting (49).

• Michelon, P., Snyder, A. Z., Buckner, R. L. & Zacks, M. J. (2002). Effects of incongruency on brain activity and memory. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society (7).

• Michelon, P., Snyder, A. Z., Buckner, R. L. & Zacks, M. J. (2002). Neural correlates of bizarre object perception. Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (9).

• Michelon, P., & Zacks, M. J. (2001). Repetition priming from pictures and visual mental images. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society (6).

• Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2001). Face imagery and prosopagnosia. Proceedings of the European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (8).

• Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2001). Face imagery and perception in prosopagnosia. Proceedings of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (8).

• Michelon, P., & Koenig, O. (1999). Imagery feedback in object identification. Proceedings of the Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory (7).

• Michelon, P., & Koenig, O. (1999). Completion mechanisms via the automatic activation of mental images in object identification. Proceedings of the European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (7).

• Michelon, P., & Koenig, O. (1998). Activation  automatique d’images mentales dans la perception d’objets. Proceedings of the Cognitive Research Association (7).

• Michelon, P., & Koenig, O. (1997). Can imagery prime perception? Proceedings of the European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (6).

• Michelon, P., Dirkx, E., & Koenig, O. (1996). Visual perception and imagery. Proceedings of the European Society on Cognitive Psychology (9).

• Michelon, P., Dirkx, E., & Koenig, O. (1996). Priming and visual mental imagery. Proceedings of the International Conference on Memory (2).

Honors, Fellowships, & Awards

• Washington University Center for Aging: Pilot Research Award, 2004-2006.

• Fyssen Foundation: Post-doctoral fellowship, 1999-2000.

• University of Lyon Library grant, 1998-1999.

• National dissertation fellowship (given to highest graded two Ph.D. candidates), University of Lyon, France, 1996-1999.

• National teaching fellowship (given to best-placed Ph.D. candidate), University of Lyon, France, 1996-1999.
 
• National award for 1st year graduate course scholarship (awarded on  grounds of scholarlyaccomplishment), University of Lyon, France, 1995-1996.

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• Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Lyon, France, September 1999. (See below for an abtract)

• M.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Lyon, France, June 1996.
 
• B.A. in Cognitive Psychology, University of Lyon, France, June 1994.

Professional History

• Washington University: Research Scientist, Dept of Psychology, 2001-present.

• Washington University: Research fellow, Dept of Psychology, 2000-2001.

• University of Southern California: Post-doctoral fellow in the Object Recognition Laboratory (Irving Biederman)  (Grant from the Fyssen Foundation), 1999-2000.

• University of Lyon: Teaching fellow, Dept of Psychology, 1996-1999.

 

• Washington University in Saint Louis, US: Experimental Psychology, Fall 2004 - present
  

• University of Lyon, France: Amnesic syndrome and memory deficits, BA students in Psychology, 1996-1999.

• University of Lyon, France: Experimental and clinical neuropsychology of memory, MA students in Cognitive Sciences, 1996-1999.

• University of Lyon, France: MacLab, Quickstat, Photoshop: Training, MA students in Cognitive Sciences, 1997-1999.

• University of Lyon, France: Experimental and clinical neuropsychology of memory, MA students in Cognitive Sciences, 1997-1998.

• University of Lyon, France: Working memory, BA students in Psychology, 1997-1998.

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