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Natural Sciences and Engineering; Health Sciences; Arts and Music

Simon Rigoulot

Neurosciences cognitives et affectives, langage, musique, intégration multimodale, culture

Professeur associé

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de psychologie

Marie-Victorin, room A-130-4

simon.rigoulot@umontreal.ca

Secondary number: 514 343-6111 #2997 (Travail 1)

Profile

Research expertise

Dr. Simon Rigoulot is a Professor of Neurosciences and Psychology at the University of Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR, Dept. of Psychology) and an Associate Professor at Université de Montréal. He studied Cognitive Sciences at Université de Lille (France), and defended his thesis in 2008. His work has been focused on Affective Neurosciences and deals with the neural correlates of the processing of emotional information, in visual and auditory modalities. He is now interested in multimodal emotional information and how individual factors such as cultural background or emotional skills influence this processing. His research methods involve a multi-dimensional approach, combining peripheral (Eye-Tracking, Skin Conductance Response, Heart Rate, Electro-myography…), central (Electro- and Magneto-Encephalography, functional near infrared spectroscopy) and behavioral measures. His projects also aim to shed light on the links between a set of emotional competences (identification, detection, regulation, and utilization) and the development of psychopathologies such as anxiety, depression. In parallel, his interests extended to the study of speech and music, through two specific avenues. The first concerns the role of prosody (tone of voice) in conveying meaningful information, be it emotion or real intention of speakers, such as in irony, lies, innuendos. The second one is about the processing of rhythmic information and the ability of lay participants to synchronize to this type of information, and how attentional and emotional processes can affect this ability.

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Teaching and supervision

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

Theses and dissertation supervision

Maìtrise: 

- A. Rolinat, 2021-2023, Prosodie émotionnelle et accents régionaux (Québécois et Français)

- B. Mendoza, 2021-2023, Inégration audiovisuelle émotionnelle chez les musiciens et non-musiciens: approche en EEG

- S. Roghani, 2020-2022, effect of simultaneous neurostimulation and music on mood: evidence from EEG and psychophysiological signals

Stages and Others

Clara El Khantour, Honors, effect of simultaneous neurostimulation and music on mood: evidence from EEG and psychophysiological signals

Projects

Research projects

2022 - 2025

“A study of the influence of musical learning on audiovisual emotional perception and empathy: an electrophysiological approach” //CRBLM

Lead researcher : Denise Klein-Broomberg
Co-researchers : Simon Rigoulot
Funding sources: FRQNT/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FQRNT)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(RS) Programme de regroupements stratégiques
2021 - 2025

Réseau de bio-imagerie du Québec - Neural correlates of the effects of regional accents on the recognition of emotional prosody

Lead researcher : Martin Lepage
Co-researchers : Simon Rigoulot
Funding sources: FRQS/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRSQ)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Réseaux thématiques de recherche
2021 - 2025

Regroupement pour la recherche sur le cerveau, le langage et la musique_CRBLM (2017-2023). Prosodie émotionnelle et accents régionaux (Québécois et Français).

Lead researcher : Denise Klein-Broomberg
Co-researchers : Simon Rigoulot
Funding sources: FRQNT/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FQRNT)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-(RS) Programme de regroupements stratégiques
2020 - 2025

Integration of multimodal emotion

Lead researcher : Simon Rigoulot
Funding sources: CRSNG/Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et génie du Canada (CRSNG)
Grant programs:
2021 - 2023

Réseau de bio-imagerie du Québec - Regional accents and emotional prosody

Lead researcher : Simon Rigoulot
2020 - 2023

Réseau de bio-imagerie du Québec - Effect of simulatenous neurostimulation and music on mood : evidence from EEG and psychophysiological signals

Lead researcher : Sara Tremblay
Co-researchers : Simon Rigoulot , Simone Dalla Bella
Funding sources: FRQS/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRSQ)
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Réseaux thématiques de recherche

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=fr&user=y9_YDf8AAAAJ

Communications

Médias

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-study-looked-at-what-happens-in-your-brain-when-someone-makes-a-sexual-innuendo/

https://www.psypost.org/2021/02/sexual-innuendo-evokes-a-unique-response-in-the-brain-according-to-new-neurophysiological-research-59492

https://www.lenouvelliste.ca/actualites/le-ton-de-la-voix-plus-important-que-les-mots-98255e9075278df2e4427d1a5514004b?fbclid=IwAR1BgjVufoaIJ8VKJJkVczvbiBv7LZsh1tUx-1Jc7ZxHLRCI8xcSm3ZlFQM

Disciplines

  • Neurosciences
  • Psychology
  • Music

Areas of expertise

  • Cognitive neuroscience of hearing and music
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Brain and sound
  • Emotions
  • Visual attention
  • Brain and music
  • Electrophysiology (EEG)
  • Auditory neuroscience