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Olivier Pascalis is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and specializes in research primarily within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and cultural studies.

Their research focuses on key topics such as face recognition and perception, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, multisensory perception and integration, child and animal learning development, visual perception and processing mechanisms, face recognition and analysis, and categorization, perception, and language.

Pascalis has contributed multiple papers to academic literature, with notable recent publications including:

  • Development of face processing: are there critical or sensitive periods? (2020, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • The recognition of facial expressions of emotion in deaf and hearing individuals (2021, Heliyon)
  • A developmental investigation of the other-race categorization advantage in a multiracial population: Contrasting social categorization and perceptual expertise accounts (2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • When novelty prevails on familiarity: Visual biases for child versus infant faces in 3.5- to 12-month-olds (2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • Language familiarity influences own-race face recognition in 9- and 12-month-old infants (2021, Infancy)

Pascalis frequently publishes in venues including Infancy, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Vision, International Journal of Behavioral Development, and Vision Research. This reflects a consistent engagement with journals central to developmental psychology, perceptual processes, and cognitive development research.

The scientist collaborates often with a group of coauthors, including Mathilde Fort, Cristina I. Galusca, Paul C. Quinn, David Méary, and Olivier Clerc, each contributing to a significant number of publications alongside Pascalis.

Best Publications

  • Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life?

    Olivier Pascalis;Michelle de Haan;Charles A. Nelson

  • The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy Evidence of Perceptual Narrowing

    David J. Kelly;Paul C. Quinn;Alan M. Slater;Kang Lee

  • Representation of the Gender of Human Faces by Infants: A Preference for Female

    Paul C Quinn;Joshua Yahr;Abbie Kuhn;Alan M Slater

  • Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces

    David J. Kelly;Paul C. Quinn;Alan M. Slater;Kang Lee

  • Specialization of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Face Recognition in Human Infants

    Michelle De Haan;Olivier Pascalis;Mark H. Johnson

  • Mother's face recognition by neonates: A replication and an extension

    Olivier Pascalis;Scania de Schonen;John Morton;Christine Deruelle

  • Plasticity of face processing in infancy

    O. Pascalis;L. S. Scott;D. J. Kelly;R. W. Shannon

  • Development of the other-race effect during infancy: Evidence toward universality?

    David J. Kelly;Shaoying Liu;Kang Lee;Paul C. Quinn

  • A Domain-General Theory of the Development of Perceptual Discrimination

    Lisa S. Scott;Olivier Pascalis;Charles A. Nelson

  • Cross-Race Preferences for Same-Race Faces Extend Beyond the African Versus Caucasian Contrast in 3-Month-Old Infants.

    David J. Kelly;Shaoying Liu;Liezhong Ge;Paul C. Quinn

  • Recognition memory in 3- to 4-day-old human neonates

    O Pascalis;S de Schonen

  • Long-Term Recognition Memory for Faces Assessed by Visual Paired Comparison in 3- and 6-Month-Old Infants

    Olivier Pascalis;Michelle de Haan;Charles A. Nelson;Scania de Schonen

  • Face recognition in primates: a cross-species study

    Olivier Pascalis;Jocelyne Bachevalier

  • The Origins of Face Processing in Humans: Phylogeny and Ontogeny.

    Olivier Pascalis;David J. Kelly

  • Categorization, categorical perception, and asymmetry in infants' representation of face race.

    Gizelle Anzures;Paul C. Quinn;Olivier Pascalis;Alan M. Slater

  • Perceptual training prevents the emergence of the other race effect during infancy.

    Michelle Heron-Delaney;Gizelle Anzures;Jane S. Herbert;Paul C. Quinn

  • Developmental Origins of the Other-Race Effect:

    Gizelle Anzures;Paul C. Quinn;Olivier Pascalis;Alan M. Slater

  • Spontaneous voice–face identity matching by rhesus monkeys for familiar conspecifics and humans

    Julia Sliwa;Jean-René Duhamel;Olivier Pascalis;Sylvia Wirth

  • Independent component analysis reveals atypical electroencephalographic activity during visual perception in individuals with autism.

    Elizabeth Milne;Elizabeth Milne;Alison Scope;Olivier Pascalis;David Buckley

  • Two faces of the other-race effect: recognition and categorisation of Caucasian and Chinese faces.

    Liezhong Ge;Hongchuan Zhang;Zhe Wang;Paul C Quinn

  • Brief daily exposures to Asian females reverses perceptual narrowing for Asian faces in Caucasian infants

    Gizelle Anzures;Andrea Wheeler;Paul C. Quinn;Olivier Pascalis

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Quinn
Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Alan Slater
Alan Slater University of Exeter
James W. Tanaka
James W. Tanaka University of Victoria
Michael J. Coleman
Michael J. Coleman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Roberto Caldara
Roberto Caldara University of Fribourg
Edouard Gentaz
Edouard Gentaz University of Geneva
Ruth Campbell
Ruth Campbell University College London
Mark Blades
Mark Blades University of Sheffield
Charles A. Nelson
Charles A. Nelson Boston Children's Hospital

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