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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
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Overview

Bruno Rossion is affiliated with the University of Lorraine in France and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their research contributions span multiple subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics within these fields. Major areas of study include Face Recognition and Perception, Neural dynamics and brain function, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Multisensory perception and integration, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Face recognition and analysis, and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Among Bruno Rossion's recent publications are:

  • Understanding human individuation of unfamiliar faces with oddball fast periodic visual stimulation and electroencephalography (2020, European Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Is human face recognition lateralized to the right hemisphere due to neural competition with left-lateralized visual word recognition? A critical review (2021, Brain Structure and Function)

These papers contribute to the understanding of human face recognition and neural processing mechanisms. Other frequently cited related works by collaborators or in the field include studies on harmonic amplitude summation for frequency-tagging analysis and face categorization in the human brain.

Bruno Rossion regularly publishes in a range of scientific venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cortex
  • Neuropsychologia
  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Vision

Frequent co-authors in their research network include Jacques Jonas, Sophie Colnat-Coulbois, Corentin Jacques, Louis Maillard, and Angélique Volfart. These collaborations are evident from repeated joint publications and research projects.

The breadth of publications and collaborations highlights engagement with topics such as the neural underpinnings of face perception, visual word recognition lateralization, and brain stimulation techniques as investigated through methods like EEG and frequency-tagging. This body of work enhances understanding of cognitive and neural mechanisms in perception and brain connectivity.

Best Publications

  • The steady-state visual evoked potential in vision research: A review.

    Anthony Norcia;L. Gregory Appelbaum;Justin Michael Ales;Benoit Cottereau;Benoit Cottereau

  • Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart's object pictorial set : the role of surface detail in basic-level object recognition

    Bruno Rossion;Gilles Pourtois

  • The N170 occipito-temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: an electrophysiological account of face-specific processes in the human brain

    Bruno Rossion;Isabel Gauthier;Michael J Tarr;P Despland

  • Early lateralization and orientation tuning for face, word, and object processing in the visual cortex

    Bruno Rossion;Carrie A Joyce;Garrison W Cottrell;Michael J Tarr

  • A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing.

    Bruno Rossion;Roberto Caldara;Mohamed Seghier;Anne-Marie Schuller

  • Does physical interstimulus variance account for early electrophysiological face sensitive responses in the human brain? Ten lessons on the N170

    Bruno Rossion;Corentin Jacques

  • Picture-plane inversion leads to qualitative changes of face perception

    Bruno Rossion

  • Holistic Processing Is Finely Tuned for Faces of One's Own Race

    Caroline Michel;Bruno Rossion;Jaehyun Han;Chan-Sup Chung

  • Hemispheric Asymmetries for Whole-Based and Part-Based Face Processing in the Human Fusiform Gyrus

    Bruno Rossion;Laurence Dricot;Anne Devolder;Jean-Michel Bodart

  • How does the brain process upright and inverted faces

    Bruno Rossion;Isabel Gauthier

  • The face-sensitive N170 and VPP components manifest the same brain processes: The effect of reference electrode site

    Carrie Joyce;Bruno Rossion

  • Spatio-temporal localization of the face inversion effect : an event-related potentials study

    Bruno Rossion;Jean-François Delvenne;D. Debatisse;Valérie Goffaux

  • Faces Are "Spatial"—Holistic Face Perception Is Supported by Low Spatial Frequencies

    Valérie Goffaux;Bruno Rossion

  • The time course of the inversion effect during individual face discrimination

    Corentin Jacques;Olivier d'Arripe;Bruno Rossion

  • Rapid categorization of natural face images in the infant right hemisphere

    Adélaïde de Heering;Bruno Rossion

  • The N170 : understanding the time-course of face perception in the human brain

    Bruno Rossion;Corentin Jacques

  • The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception

    Bruno Rossion

  • ERP evidence for the speed of face categorization in the human brain: Disentangling the contribution of low-level visual cues from face perception.

    Bruno Rossion;Stéphanie Caharel

  • Expertise Training with Novel Objects Leads to Left-Lateralized Facelike Electrophysiological Responses

    Bruno Rossion;Bruno Rossion;Isabel Gauthier;Valérie Goffaux;Michael J Tarr

  • Understanding face perception by means of human electrophysiology

    Bruno Rossion

  • Fixation patterns during recognition of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces

    Goedele Van Belle;Meike Ramon;Philippe Lefèvre;Bruno Rossion

Frequent Co-Authors

Corentin Jacques
Corentin Jacques Université Catholique de Louvain
Louis Maillard
Louis Maillard University of Lorraine
Rainer Goebel
Rainer Goebel Maastricht University
Anthony M. Norcia
Anthony M. Norcia Stanford University
Roberto Caldara
Roberto Caldara University of Fribourg
Bettina Sorger
Bettina Sorger Maastricht University
Philippe G. Schyns
Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow
Raymond Bruyer
Raymond Bruyer Université Catholique de Louvain
Bart Boets
Bart Boets KU Leuven
Philippe Lefèvre
Philippe Lefèvre Université Catholique de Louvain

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