Research interest

My laboratory focuses on a variety of topics in cognitive psychology. During the last few years, my students and I have been focusing on some of the following questions: How do people learn to classify objects? Why do some artificial stimuli with a high degree of human likeness appear to be eerie? Does a source’s credibility influence people’s ability to evaluate the validity of a syllogism? To what extent are function learning and absolute identification paradigms related? Are behavioral measures of brain lateralization related to autistic traits in the general population?

Publications

Burleigh, T., Schoenherr, J. R., & Lacroix, G. L. (accepted). Does the Uncanny Valley Exist? An Empirical Test of the Relationship between Eeriness and the Human Likeness of Digitally Created Faces. Computers in Human Behavior.

Howell, G., & Lacroix, G. L. (2012). Decomposing interactions using GLM in combination with the COMPARE, LMATRIX and MMATRIX subcommands in SPSS. Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 8, 1-22.

Giguère, G., & Lacroix, G.L. (2010). Concepts fondamentaux de l’attention, 1ère partie: L’attention sélective et partagée. Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 31, 7-38.

Lacroix, G.L., & Giguère, G. (2010). Concepts fondamentaux de l’attention, 2ème partie: Le contrôle cognitif et la conscience. Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 31, 39-66.

Osana, H. P., Lacroix, G. L., Tucker, B. J., Idan, E., & Jabbour, G. W. (2007). The Impact of Reading Inference Eliciting Texts on Syllogistic Reasoning. Journal of Educational Psychology. Vol. 99, 888-902.

Giguère, G., Lacroix, G. L., & Larochelle, S. (2007). Learning the Correlational Structure of Stimuli in a Single-Attribute Sorting Task. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 457-469.

Lacroix, G. L., Giguère, G., & Larochelle, S.  (2005). The origin of exemplar effects in rule-driven categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Vol. 31, 272-288.