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François Vachon

École de psychologie

Directeur du programme de doctorat (D-PRH), Directeur du programme de maîtrise (MM-PSY), Professeur titulaire

418 656-2131, poste 408343

francois.vachon@psy.ulaval.ca

Pavillon Félix-Antoine-Savard Local 1314

Avant d’entrer au service de l’École de psychologie à titre de professeur adjoint en 2011, monsieur Vachon a obtenu en 2007 son doctorat en psychologie de l’Université Laval avant d’effectuer des stages postdoctoraux – subventionnés par le CRNSG et le FQRNT – en psychologie cognitive à Cardiff University au Royaume-Uni (2007), en neuroscience cognitive à l’Université de Montréal (2008-2009) ainsi qu’en facteurs humains à l’Université Laval (2009-2011).

Il est spécialisé en science cognitive fondamentale et appliquée et membre du Groupe de recherche en psychologie cognitive (GRPC) de l’Université Laval. Ses intérêts de recherche touchent plus particulièrement la psychologie cognitive de l’attention. Son programme de recherche porte sur l’étude des mécanismes fondamentaux du déplacement volontaire (contrôle) et involontaire (perte de contrôle) de l’attention et comporte deux principaux thèmes: l’étude de l’adaptabilité et de la flexibilité en situation multitâche et l’étude des effets de la distraction auditive (p. ex., capture attentionnelle) sur la performance.

M. Vachon s’intéresse également au domaine de l’ergonomie cognitive (facteurs humains) qui vise l’optimisation de la performance humaine. Dans le cadre de ses travaux, il combine les mesures comportementales traditionnelles (erreurs, temps de réponse) à l’analyse de l’activité cérébrale (EEG, potentiels évoqués) et au suivi du mouvement oculaire. Il enseigne la psychologie cognitive à tous les cycles. En 2016, la Faculté des sciences sociales lui remet le Prix d’excellence en enseignement dans la catégorie des professeurs adjoints.

Projets de recherche

Publications récentes (depuis 2017)

Sous presse

Desmarais, A., & Vachon, F. (sous presse). The mechanisms of far transfer from cognitive training: Specifying the role of distraction suppression. Psychological Researchhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01677-9.

Pomerleau-Turcotte, J., Dubé, F., Moreno Sala, M. T., & Vachon, F. (sous presse). Building a mental toolbox: Relationships between strategy choice, sight-singing performance, and musical background in higher education. Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221087444.

2022

Littlefair, Z., Vachon, F., Ball, L. J., Robinson, N., & Marsh, J. E. (2022). Acoustic, and categorical, deviation effects are produced by different mechanisms: Evidence from additivity and habituation. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 5(1-2), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2063609.

Pomerleau-Turcotte, J., Moreno Sala, M. T., Dubé, F., & Vachon, F. (2022). Experiential and cognitive predictors of sight-singing performance in music higher education. Journal of Research in Music Education, 70(2), 206-227. https://doi.org/10.1177/00224294211049425.

2021

Bolduc, M., Gendron, A., Montreuil, M., Bénard, C., & Vachon, F. (2021). Les conversations personnelles dans les bureaux à aire ouverte : un mal irrésistible? Psycause : Revue scientifique étudiante de l’École de psychologie de l’Université Laval, 11(2), 18-20.

Labonté, K., Marsh, J. E., & Vachon, F. (2021). Distraction by auditory categorical deviations is unrelated to working memory capacity: Further evidence of a distinction between acoustic and categorical deviation effects. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 4, 139-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2022.2033109.

Labonté, K., & Vachon, F. (2021). Resuming a dynamic task following increasingly long interruptions: The role of working memory and reconstruction. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 659451. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659451.

Labonté, K. & Vachon, F. (2021). Un outil de formation et d’entraînement à la navigation. Dans V. Thomas, E. Doucet, & B. Duinat, Le fleuve virtuel, Géomatique, 47(3), 8-15.

Pomerleau-Turcotte, J., Moreno Sala, M. T., Dubé, F., & Vachon, F. (2021). Does cognitive load differ among sight-singers? An exploratory study using pupillometry and interviews. Proceedings of the Future Directions of Music Cognition conferencehttps://doi.org/10.18061/FDMC.2021.0030.

Simal, A., Bermudez, P., Lefebvre, C., Vachon, F., & Jolicœur, P. (2021). Signal informativeness for sequence structure modulates human auditory cortical responses. Psychophysiology, 58, e13745. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13745.

2020

Babin, C., Boulet, C.-A., Pépin, A. Bénard, C. & Vachon, F. (2020). Impulsivité et distractibilité : les conversations téléphoniques en arrière-plan sont-elles particulièrement dérangeantes? Psycause : Revue scientifique étudiante de l’École de psychologie de l’Université Laval, 10(2), 11-13.

Marois, A., Lafond, D., Vachon, F., Harvey, E. R., Martin, B., & Tremblay, S. (2020). Mobile real-time eye-tracking for gaze-aware security surveillance support systems. In T. Ahram, W. Karwowski, A. Vergnano, F. Leali, and R. Taiar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2020): Integrating People and Intelligent Systems, February 19-21, 2020, Modena, Italy (pp. 201-207). Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_32.

Marois, A., Lafond, D. Williot, A., Vachon, F., & Tremblay, S. (2020). Real-time gaze-aware cognitive support system for security surveillance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 64https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641274.

Marois, A., Pozzi, A., & Vachon, F. (2020). Assessing the role of stimulus novelty in the elicitation of the pupillary dilation response to irrelevant sound. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 3, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2020.1820290.

Marsh, J. E., Campbell, T. A., Vachon, F., Taylor, P. J., & Hughes, R. W. (2020). How the deployment of visual attention modulates auditory distraction. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 350-362. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01800-w.

Vachon, F., Marsh, J. E., & Labonté, K. (2020). The automaticity of semantic processing revisited: Auditory distraction by a categorical deviation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149, 1360-1397. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000714.

2019

Bénard, C., Blanchette-Sarrasin, A., Pozzi, A., & Vachon, F. (2019). Biais cognitifs face aux changements climatiques. Psycause : Revue scientifique étudiante de l’École de psychologie de l’Université Laval, 9(2), 7-8.

Labonté, K., Tremblay, S., & Vachon, F. (2019). Forewarning interruptions in dynamic settings: Can prevention bolster recovery? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25, 674-694. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000219.

Marois, A., Cloutier, M.-S., Saunier, N., Godillon, S., Lafond, D., & Vachon, F. (2019) Safety, stress and work zone complexity: A field study on police officers performing on-foot traffic control. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1, 100018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2019.100018.

Marois, A., Crépeau, J., Tremblay, S. & Vachon, F. (2019). Toward an online index of the attentional response to auditory alarms in the cockpit: Is pupillary response robust enough? Dans H. Ayaz et F. Dehais (Eds.), Neuroergonomics: The brain at work and in everyday life (pp. 289-290). Londres, R.-U. : Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811926-6.00079-8.

Marois, A., Marsh, J. E. & Vachon, F. (2019). Is auditory distraction by changing-state and deviant sounds underpinned by the same mechanism? Evidence from pupillometry. Biological Psychology, 141, 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.002.

Thériault, J.-D., Vallières, B. R., Lafond, D., Tremblay, S. & Vachon, F. (2019). The impact of visual scan strategies on active surveillance performance: An eye-tracking study. Dans H. Ayaz et F. Dehais (Eds.), Neuroergonomics: The brain at work and in everyday life (pp. 283-284). Londres, R.-U. : Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811926-6.00076-2.

Vachon, F. & Tremblay, S. (2019). Y a-t-il un pilote dans l’avion? Quand l’attention rend le pilote sourd et aveugle… Dans S. Grondin (Ed.), La psychologie au quotidien, vol. 4. (pp. 111-134). Québec, Canada : Presses de l’Université Laval.

2018

Chamberland, C., Hodgetts, H. M., Vallières, B. R., Vachon, F. & Tremblay, S. (2018). The benefits and the costs of exploiting the auditory modality in dynamic decision-making settings. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 12, 112-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555343417735398.

Chérif, L., Wood, V., Marois, A., Labonté, K. & Vachon, F. (2018). Multitasking in the military: Cognitive consequences and potential solutions. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 32, 429-439. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3415.

Hodgetts, H. M., Chamberland, C., Thériault, J.-D., Vachon, F. & Tremblay, S. (2018). Priority or parity? Scanning strategies and detection performance of novice operators in urban surveillance. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 62, 1113-1117. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621255.

Marois, A., Labonté, K., Parent, M. & Vachon, F. (2018). Eyes have ears: Indexing the orienting response to sound using pupillometry. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 123, 152-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.09.016.

Marois, A., Lafond, D., Gagnon, J.-F., Vachon, F. & Cloutier, M.-S. (2018). Predicting stress among pedestrian traffic workers using physiological and situational measures. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 62, 1262-1266. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621290.

Marois, A. & Vachon, F. (2018). Can pupillometry index auditory attentional capture in contexts of active visual processing? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30, 484-502. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1470518.

Marsh, J. E., Ljung, R., Jahncke, H., MacCutcheon, D., Pausch, F., Ball, L. J. & Vachon, F. (2018). Why are background telephone conversations distracting? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 24, 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000170.

Marsh, J. E., Yang, J., Qualter, P., Richardson, C., Perham, N., Vachon, F. & Hughes, R. W. (2018). Postcategorical auditory distraction in short-term memory: Insights from increased task load and task type. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44, 882-897. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000492.

Tremblay, S., Lafond, D., Chamberland, C., Hodgetts, H. M. & Vachon, F. (2018). Gaze-aware cognitive assistant for multiscreen surveillance. Dans W. Karwowski and T. Ahram (Eds.), Intelligent Human Systems Integration: Vol. 722. Advances in intelligent systems and computing (pp. 230-236). Springer International Publishing AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73888-8_36.

Vachon, F., Marois, A., Lévesque-Dion, M., Legendre, M. & Saint-Aubin, J. (2018). Can Hebb be distracted? Testing the susceptibility of sequence learning to auditory distraction. Journal of Cognition, 1(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.8.

2017

Hodgetts, H. M., Vachon, F., Chamberland, C. & Tremblay, S. (2017). See no evil: Cognitive challenges of security surveillance and monitoring. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JARMAC.2017.05.001.

Lafond, D., Vallières, B. R., Vachon, F. & Tremblay, S. (2017). Comparing naval decision support technologies using decision models, process tracing and error analysis. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 61, 1178-1182. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601778.

Lafond, D., Roberge-Vallières, B., Vachon, F. & Tremblay, S. (2017). Judgment analysis in a dynamic multitask environment: Capturing nonlinear policies using decision trees. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 11, 122-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555343416661889

Marsh, J. E., Patel, K., Labonté, K., Threadgold, E., Skelton, F. C., Fodarella, C., Thorley, R., Battersby, K., Frowd, C. D., Ball, L. J. & Vachon, F. (2017). Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: The impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000101

Marsh, J. E., Vachon, F. & Sörqvist, P. (2017). Increased distractibility in schizotypy: Independent of individual differences in working memory capacity? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 565-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1172094

Peysakhovich, V., Vachon, F. & Dehais, F. (2017). The impact of luminance on tonic and phasic pupillary responses to sustained cognitive load. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 112, 40-45https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.12.003

Vachon, F., Labonté, K. & Marsh, J. E. (2017). Attentional capture by deviant sounds: A noncontingent form of auditory distraction? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 622-634. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000330

Vachon, F., Winder, E., Lavandier, M. & Hughes, R. W. (2017). The bigger the better and the more the merrier? Realistic office reverberation levels abolish cognitive distraction by multiple-voice speech. Proceedings of the 12th ICBEN International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem. International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN).

Curriculum

Ph. D. en psychologie, Université Laval

Intérêts de recherche

  • Psychologie cognitive fondamentale et appliquée
  • Attention
  • Distraction auditive
  • Oculométrie
  • Cognition et performance en situation extrême
  • Électrophysiologie
  • Facteurs humains
  • Interaction humain-technologie
  • Mémoire
  • Systèmes intelligents

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