Search Results - "Desmarais, Geneviève"

Memory representations in a cross-modal matching task: evidence for a verbal component by Estabrooks, Katherine Marie, Sohail, Muhammad Tayyab, Song, Young In, Desmarais, Geneviève

“…In everyday tasks, one often uses touch to find what has been seen. Recent research has identified that when individuals view or touch an object, they may…”
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The impact of attentional demands on audiovisual integration depends on task-specific components by Desmarais, Geneviève, Schneeberger, Laura, Pearson, Hilary, Bubar, Kiara, Wilbiks, Jonathan

“…Research investigating how attentional demands impacts audiovisual (AV) integration has used a variety of multisensory tasks and procedures to manipulate…”
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Visuo-haptic integration in object identification using novel objects by Desmarais, Geneviève, Meade, Melissa, Wells, Taylor, Nadeau, Mélanie

“…Although some studies have shown that haptic and visual identification seem to rely on similar processes, few studies have directly compared the two. We…”
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Impact of semantic similarity in novel associations: Direct and indirect routes to action by Macdonald, Scott N., Richards, Eric D., Desmarais, Geneviève

“…Actions produced in response to familiar objects are predominantly mediated by the visual structure of objects, and less so by their semantic associations…”
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Influences of visual and action information on object identification and action production by Desmarais, Geneviève, Hudson, Pamela, Richards, Eric D.

“…•Identifying labels for novel object/action pairs elicits visual/action semantics.•Congruent information facilitates naming and action production.•Incongruent…”
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What's in a name? The influence of verbal labels on action production in novel object/action associations by Desmarais, Geneviève, Lane, Breanna, LeBlanc, Kevin A., Hiltz, Justin, Richards, Eric D.

“…Actions are produced directly from the visual features of objects; object recognition and semantic information are not necessary for action production…”
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Adding and omitting components of actions: Differences in salience between pulling, twisting, and sliding by Desmarais, Geneviève, Pensa, Maria Cristina, Dixon, Mike J., Roy, Eric A.

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The impact of dementia on apraxia and function in daily living by Painter, Richard, Desmarais, Geneviève, Stamenova, Vessela, Roy, Eric A., Park, Norman W., Gold, David A., Lombardi, Sabrina

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The role of premorbid expertise on object identification in a patient with category-specific visual agnosia by Dixon, Mike J., Desmarais, Geneviève, Gojmerac, Christina, Schweizer, Tom A., Bub, Daniel N.

“…The role of premorbid expertise in object identification was investigated in the category-specific visual agnosia patient ELM. For several years prior to his…”
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The importance of object similarity in the production and identification of actions associated with objects by Desmarais, Geneviéve, Pensa, Maria Cristina, Dixon, Mike J, Roy, Eric A

“…Past research suggests that the similarity between the objects associated with actions impacts visual action identification and action production. Indeed,…”
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A role for action knowledge in visual object identification by DESMARAIS, Geneviève, DIXON, Mike J, ROY, Eric A

“…We evaluated the impact of visual similarity and action similarity on visual object identification. We taught participants to associate novel objects with…”
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Understanding the structural determinants of object confusion in memory: An assessment of psychophysical approaches to estimating visual similarity by Desmarais, Geneviève, Dixon, Mike J

“…Computer-generated shapes varying on visual dimensions such as curvature, tapering, and thickness have been used to investigate identification deficits in the…”
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Not All Triads Are Created Equal: Further Support for the Importance of Visual and Semantic Proximity in Object Identification by SCHWEIZER, Tom A, DIXON, Mike J, DESMARAIS, Geneviève, SMITH, Stephen D

“…Identification deficits were investigated in ELM, a temporal lobe stroke patient with category-specific deficits. We replicated previous work done on FS, a…”
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Gesture imitation in stroke: Analysis of two routes to action by Vorontsova, Zofia, Clark, Amanda, Roy, Eric A., Desmarais, Genevieve, Black, Sandra E., Stamenova, Vessela, Park, Norman

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Understanding the structural determinants of object confusion in memory: an assessment of psychophysical approaches to estimating visual similarity by Desmarais, Geneviève, Dixon, Mike J

“…Computer-generated shapes varying on visual dimensions such as curvature, tapering, and thickness have been used to investigate identification deficits in the…”
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A role for action knowledge in visual object identification by Desmarais, Genevieve

“…The main purpose of this thesis was to evaluate whether action information could influence visual object identification. Research with patients with…”
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