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Bolduc, M., Cayouette, A., Benesch, D., Paul, T. S., Vachon, F., & Marois, A. (sous presse). Assessing the impact of nature for reducing cognitive fatigue: A validation study. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

Labonté, K., St-Cyr, H., & Vachon, F. (sous presse). Foreseeing interruptions in dynamic environments may undermine the adequacy between perceived and observable task performance. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2227400

Marsh, J. E., Hurlstone, M. J., Marois, A., Ball, L. J., Moore, S. B., Vachon, F., Schlittmeier, S. J., Röer, J. P., Buchner, A., & Bell, R. (sous presse). Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual-verbal but not visual-spatial serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001360

Marsh, J. E., Vachon, F., Sörqvist, P., Marsja, E., Röer, J., Richardson, B., & Ljungberg, J. K. (sous presse). Irrelevant changing-state vibrotactile stimuli disrupt verbal serial recall: Implications for theories of interference in short-term memory. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023. 2198065

Tremblay-Antoine, C., Dufresne, Y., & Vachon, F. (sous presse). How can we size your core issue: Assessing salience validity using psychophysiology. Public Opinion Quarterly.

2024

Marois, A., & Vachon, F. (2024). Psychophysiological markers of auditory distraction: A scoping review. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 7(1), 9-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/25742442.2023.2274270

Rettie, L., Potter, R. F., Brewer, G., Degno, F., Vachon, F., Hughes, R. W., & Marsh, J. E. (2024). Warning – Taboo words ahead! Avoiding attentional capture by spoken taboo distractors. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 36(1), 61-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2285860

2023

Desmarais, A., & Vachon, F. (2023). The mechanisms of far transfer from cognitive training: Specifying the role of distraction suppression. Psychological Research, 87(2), 425-440. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01677-9

Hodgetts, H. M., Packwood, S., Vachon, F., & Tremblay, S. (2023). A microworld simulation of dynamic cognition as a test of executive function. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 45(2), 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2023.2214297

Pomerleau-Turcotte, J., Dubé, F., Moreno Sala, M. T., & Vachon, F. (2023). Building a mental toolbox: Relationships between strategy choice, sight-singing performance, and musical background in higher education. Psychology of Music 51(1), 119-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221087444.

2022

Gagnon, J., Khau, M., Lavoie-Hudon, L., Vachon, F., Drapeau, V., & Tremblay, S. (2022). Comparing a Fitbit wearable to an electrocardiogram gold standard as a measure of heart rate under psychological stress: A validation study. JMIR Formative Research, 6(22), e37885. https://doi.org/10.2196/37885

Henri, B.-L., Thibeault, J., Bénard, C., & Vachon, F. (2022). La distraction cause par les conversations ambiantes : Une affaire personnelle? Psycause : Revue scientifique étudiante de l’École de psychologie de l’Université Laval, 12(2), 28-29. https://doi.org/10.51656/psycause.v12i2.51866

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 conference. https://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, 64. https://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, 40-45. https://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).

Ph. D. en psychologie, Université Laval