Legend: ☆ Awards; § Honors thesis co-supervisor; Š research project co-supervisor; M various research skills mentee; * international conference
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Gingras, F., Fiset, D., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Estéphan, A., N’Guiamba, M., Dan, S, Zhang, Y., & Blais, C. (Accepted). Cultural Differences in Spatial Frequency Use do not Generalize to Non-Homogeneous Scenes and Object Stimuli. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Zhang, Y., MLuo, F., Liang, W. Blais, C., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Fiset, D., MSun, D & Chen, B. (2025) Stroke features in the Chinese character recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi-org.proxy.bibliotheques.uqam.ca/10.1177/17470218251357441
Charbonneau, I., Duncan, J., Blais, C., Guérette, J., Plouffe-Demers. M-P, Smith, F. & Fiset, D. (2025) Facial expression categorization predominantly relies on mid-spatial frequencies. Vision Research https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2025.108611
MRicher, A., Gingras, F., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Fiset, D. & Blais, C. (2025) Is it pain, anger, disgust or sadness? Individual differences in expectations of pain facial expressions. Emotion https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001516
Blais C., Fiset, D., Gingras F., Plouffe-Demers, M-P, & Charbonneau, I. (2024) Diversity in visual perception research: how cultural variability in face processing can inform policymakers. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322241269039
Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., Fiset, D., Cormier, S., Zhang, Y., Sun, D., ... & Blais, C. (2023). Differences Between East Asians and Westerners in the Mental Representations and Visual Information Extraction Involved in the Decoding of Pain Facial Expression Intensity. Affective Science, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00186-1
Gingras, F., Fiset, D., Plouffe‐Demers, M. P., Deschênes, A., Cormier, S., Forget, H., & Blais, C. (2023). Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture. British Journal of Psychology. ☆ Guy Bégin, Best Article, SQRP https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12641
Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Saumure, C., Fiset, D., Cormier, S., & Blais, C. (2022). Facial expression of pain: Sex differences in the discrimination of varying intensities. Emotion. Advance online publication. ☆ Guy Bégin, Best Article, SQRP https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001156
MPauzé, A., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., Fiset, D., Saint-Amour, D., Cyr, C., & Blais, C. (2021). The relationship between orthorexia nervosa symptomatology and body image attitudes and distortion. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-15. ☆ Guy Bégin, Best Article, SQRP https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92569-2
Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Fiset, D., Saumure, C., Duncan, J. & Blais, C. (2019). Strategy Shift Towards Lower Spatial Frequencies in the Recognition of Dynamic Facial Expressions of Basic Emotions: When it Moves it is Different. Frontiers in psychology. ☆ Best Student Article, UQAM https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01563
Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Estéphan, A. Fiset, D. & Blais, C. (2018) The use of visual information in the recognition of posed and spontaneous facial expressions. Journal of vision. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.9.21
Estéphan, A., Fiset, D., Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Zhang, Y., Sun, D., & Blais, C. (2018). Time course of cultural differences in spatial frequency use for face identification. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1816. ☆ Guy Bégin, Best Article, SQRP https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19971-1
Manuscript and proceedings submitted and under review
Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Saumure, C., Fiset, D. Cormier, S., & Blais, C. How Culture Shapes the Communication of Pain: A Systematic Review on the Affective Component and Future Directions. Psychological bulletin (under review), August 1st, 2025 https://osf.io/wuenr/?view_only=cec8522b8fe340fb8de738a307ce4a07
Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Winterstein, G., Laperle, S., Hosseini Saravani, S. H., Samson, D., Leblanc, D., Fiset, D., Cote, R., Zhang, Y., Waterfield, M., & Blais, C. (submitted). AFFECT CoNTEXT – A multicultural database to study contextual variations in affective experience. In Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2026).
Peer-Reviewed Published Conference Abstracts
* Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Cormier, S., Saumure, C., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2025) The Role of Culture in Shaping Affective Responses to Physical Pain: Clinical Insights and Future Research Opportunities. Journal of Pain
* Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Chen, C., Pérez Motta, A., Gosetti, V., Blais, C. & Jack, R.E. (2024) Ethnicity and Pain Recognition: Unraveling Confusion Patterns in Facial Expressions. Journal of Vision, 24(10), 1010
* Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Chen, C., Pérez Motta, A., Gosetti, V., Blais, C. & Jack, R.E. (2025) Is Emotion Confusion Color Blind? Affec Sci 6, 50–62 (2025)
☆ Selection high-ranking abstracts
* M Sénécal, D., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2023). The impact of face ethnicity on the detection of pain facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5073
* Duncan, J., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., St-Pierre, É., Blais, C., & Fiset, D. (2023). Early neural dehumanization of other race faces? Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5326.
* M Richer, A., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Gingras, F., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2023). Mental Representations of Pain: the Effect of the Sex of the Perceiver. Journal of Vision, 23(9), 5534
* Plouffe-Demers, M. P., M Desjardins, M. C., Duncan, J., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2022). Two's company, three's a crowd: Inverse other-race categorization advantage in a ternary categorization task. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4059.
* MDugas, G., Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., Caldara, R., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2022). Pain facial expression decoding is tuned to same-race faces. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4143.
* Š Audette, P. L., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2022). The impact of sex on visual strategies underlying the discrimination of facial expressions of pain. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4055-4055.
* Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Plouffe, V., Fiset, D., Cormier, S. & Blais, C. (2021). Perceptual factors underlie the underestimation bias in pain perception of black and white faces. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2703.
* Gingras, F., Deschênes, A., Fiset, D., Cormier, S., Forget, H., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., & Blais, C. (2020). Black is Angry, White is Scared: Evaluation of Pain Expressions in White and Black Faces. Journal of Vision, 20(11), 1442.
* MPauzé, A., Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Goulet, J., Furumoto-Deshaies, H., Fiset, D., Saint-Amour, D., Cyr, C. & Blais, C. (2020). Use of Reverse Correlation to Reveal Body Image Disturbance Association with Orthorexia Nervosa. Journal of Vision. 20(11), 238
* Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Saumure, C., Fiset, D., Cormier, S., Kunz, M., & Blais, C. (2019). Variation of empathy in viewers impacts facial features encoded in their mental representation of pain expression. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 156b.
* Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M. P., Fiset, D., Cormier, S., Kunz, M., & Blais, C. (2019). The impact of gender on visual strategies underlying the discrimination of facial expressions of pain. Journal of Vision, 19(10), 154c.
* Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Saumure, C., Cormier, S., Fiset, D., Kunz, M., Sun, D., ... & Blais, C. (2018). The impact of culture on the visual representation of pain facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 18(10), 1108.
* Charbonneau, I., Cormier, S., Guérette, J., Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Blais, C. & Fiset, D. (2018). Spatial frequencies for accurate categorization and discrimination of facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 18(10), 601-601.
* Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., Fiset, D., Cormier, S., Dan, S., Zhang, Y., Kunz, M., & Blais, C. (2018). The impact of culture on visual strategies underlying the discrimination of facial expressions of pain. Journal of Vision, 18(10), 1107.
* Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Saumure, C., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2017) Spatial frequency utilization during the recognition of static, dynamic and dynamic random facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 826.
* Saumure, C., Plouffe-Demers, M.-P., Fiset, D., & Blais, C. (2017) Similar visual strategies are used to recognize spontaneous and posed facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 827.
* Blais, C., Furumoto-Deshaies, H., Plouffe-Demers, M.-P, Estéphan, A. & Fiset, D (2017). Impact of myopia on visual attention and the potential link with cultural differences in visual perception. Journal of Vision, 17(10), 1005.
* Estéphan, A., Saumure, C., Fiset, D., Sun, D., Zhang, Y., Plouffe-Demers, M-P., & Blais, C. (2016). Measuring the time course of spatial frequency use for face recognition from East to West. Journal of vision, 16(12), 1393.