Isabelle Blanchette

• Centre de recherche CERVO (Affilié à l’Université Laval)
• Centre thématique de recherche en neurosciences

Financements des 2 dernières années

• Abir Toumi, Doctorat en psychologie
• Adam Fahmi, Doctorat en psychologie (Ph. D.)
• Alexis Whittom, Doctorat en psychologie - recherche et intervention (orientation clinique)
• Apatcho Marie-Oriane Kone, Maîtrise en psychologie - avec mémoire
• Charlotte St-Pierre-Bernier, Doctorat en psychologie
• Honnête Nyandu Kasali, Doctorat en psychologie (Ph. D.)
• Jonathan Nanez Arcila, Doctorat en psychologie (Ph. D.)
• Laurence Grenier, Doctorat en psychologie
• Léandre Lavoie-Hudon, Doctorat en psychologie - recherche et intervention (orientation clinique)
• Marie-Joëlle Tremblay, Doctorat en psychologie - recherche et intervention (orientation clinique)
• Pier-Alexandre Rioux, Stage postdoctoral en psychologie
• Rose Turgeon, Doctorat en psychologie

Encadrements des 5 dernières années

• Allyson Bernier, Doctorat en psychologie
• Anna Blumenthal, Stage postdoctoral en psychologie
• Anny-Pier Lévesque, Doctorat en psychologie
• Colombe Claveau, Maîtrise en psychologie - avec mémoire
• Damiem Mérette, Stage postdoctoral en psychologie
• Mathilde Emma Germaine Josserand, Stage postdoctoral en psychologie
• Yanick Leblanc-Sirois, Stage postdoctoral en psychologie

Travaux de recherche des 5 dernières années

Evolution of psychopathological manifestations and cognitive functioning in rape survivors in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2026. Honnête Nyandu Kasali, Isabelle Blanchette, Serge Caparos. DOI 10.1002/jts.70136

Assessing the Impact of Language on Visual Threat Detection: cTBS over the anterior temporal lobe impairs semantic processing but not visual threat detection 2026. Adam Fahmi, Nicola Thibault, Roxane Hoyer, Philippe ALBOUY, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.31234/osf.io/u5zj6

Listen to Africa: Nothing About Us Without Us Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2026. A. Oyekola, C. Ezeugwu, E. Ndyareeba, Z. Clay, A. Blumenthal, C. Cook, I. Blanchette, C. E. Draper, B. Milosavljevic, S. Lloyd-Fox. DOI 10.1177/17470218261490127

The mental health burden of cumulative trauma in a setting of chronic insecurity: a large community-based study in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo The Lancet Regional Health - Africa, 2026. Yvonne Duagani, Mathilde Josserand, Jean-Pierre K.M. Akilimali, Blaise B. Bakulikira, Jacques Batenga, Honnête N. Kasali, Serge Caparos, Yvan Leanza, Cyrille K. Kokou-Kpolou, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1016/j.lanafr.2026.100126

Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using TMS Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2026. François Thiffault, Benoit Brisson, Isabelle Blanchette.

Zola Bongo: Enabling Offline Tablet-Based Cognitive Testing in Diverse Populations 2026. Anna Blumenthal, Erfan Ghalibaf Khorasani, Alain Pitiot, Rebecca Hirst, Caylee Cook, Blaise Balume, Jean-Pierre Akilimali, Hleliwe Makaula, Catherine Draper, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.31234/osf.io/e9rz8_v1

Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2026. François Thiffault, Benoit Brisson, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1093/scan/nsag063

Maternal trauma exposure is linked to adult offspring’s cognitive functioning in the context of mass violence. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2026. Marie Chantal Ingabire, Serge Caparos, Eugène Rutembesa, Emmanuel Habimana, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1037/tra0001807

Measuring working memory in contexts of high adversity: Using the digit span in North Kivu African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 2025. Isabelle Blanchette, Blaise Balume Bakulikira, Marie-Chantal Ingabire, Eric Kankunda Moket, Serge Caparos. DOI 10.4102/ajopa.v7i0.177

Mothers’ psychopathology and their adult offspring’s cortisol level in a Rwandan sample South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2025. Marie Ingabire, Serge Caparos, Eugène Rutembesa, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v31i0.2410

Do emotionally negative events impair working memory as a result of intrusive thoughts? Memory, 2025. Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1080/09658211.2025.2461153

Validation of a Trauma Film: Emotional Responses, Intrusive Memories and Concept Activations Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2025. Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1007/s10608-024-10539-0

Mothers’ psychopathology and their adult offsprings’ cortisol levels in a Rwandan sample South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2025. Ingabire, M.C., Caparos, S., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E., Isabelle Blanchette.

Understanding the structure of autobiographical memories: A study of trauma memories from the 1994 Rwandan genocide Memory & Cognition, 2024. Anna Blumenthal, Serge Caparos, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.3758/s13421-024-01565-0

Hearing fearful prosody impairs visual working memory maintenance International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2024. François Thiffault, Justine Cinq-Mars, Benoît Brisson, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112338

An investigation of the mechanisms underlying the link between abstract reasoning and intrusive memories: A trauma analogue study Consciousness and Cognition, 2024. Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103609

How Threat Shapes Attention and Memory in the Himba, a Remote People of Namibia Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2023. Anna Blumenthal, Serge Caparos, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1177/00220221231175063

Does threat familiarity and knowledge shape rapid visual attention? Visual Cognition, 2023. Anna Blumenthal, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1080/13506285.2023.2288359

Stress and the interpretation of ambiguous faces in police officers Police Practice and Research, 2022. Kathy Bélanger, Isabelle Blanchette. DOI 10.1080/15614263.2021.2014330

Stressful Life Events Are Related to More Negative Interpretations, but Not Under Acute Stress Psychological Reports, 2022. Bélanger, K., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1177/00332941211014150

Affective States During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Progression of Intensity and Relation With Public Health Compliance Behavior Frontiers in Psychology, 2022. Leblanc-Sirois, Y., Gagnon, M.-È., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.883995

Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma and Its Association With Attitudes Toward Reconciliation Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 2022. Ingabire, M.C., Caparos, S., Rutembesa, E., Habimana, E., Ndushabandi, E., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1037/tra0001416

Disruption of working memory and contralateral delay activity by nociceptive stimuli is modulated by task demands Pain, 2022. Wagenaar-Tison, A., Deldar, Z., Northon, S., Brisson, B., Blanchette, I., Piché, M.. DOI 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002517

Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal? Learning and Behavior, 2022. Gustafsson, E., Francoeur, C., Blanchette, I., Sirois, S.. DOI 10.3758/s13420-021-00484-3

DLPFC controls the rapid neural response to visual threat: An ERP and rTMS study Brain Research, 2022. Cinq-Mars, J., Blumenthal, A., Grund, A., Hétu, S., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147850

Alteration of early attentional processing after analogue trauma exposure: evidence from event-related potentials Experimental Brain Research, 2021. Grégoire, L., Landry, L., Gustafsson, E., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1007/s00221-021-06234-1

Reduction of Pain and Spinal Nociceptive Transmission by Working Memory is Load Dependant Journal of Pain, 2021. Deldar, Z., Blanchette, I., Piché, M.. DOI 10.1016/j.jpain.2021.02.001

Perceptual processing of stimuli related to an analogue traumatic event: An ERP study Brain and Cognition, 2021. Leblanc-Sirois, Y., Chouinard-Gaouette, L., Grégoire, L., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105774

Exploring the mechanisms responsible for the modulating role of frowning in emotional reasoning: An ERP study Brain and Cognition, 2021. Gagnon, M.-È., Labbé, A.-P., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105750

Reasoning, trauma, and PTSD: Insights into emotion-cognition interactions Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds, 2021. Blanchette, I., Giroux, S.-V.. DOI 10.4324/9781003009856-5

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex can reduce the detrimental effect of stress on working memory. Psychology and Neuroscience, 2021. Maheux-Caron, V., Trémolière, B., Lepage, J.-F., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1037/pne0000206

Negative emotions influence EEG correlates of inference formation during analogical reasoning International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2021. Leblanc-Sirois, Y., Gélinas, C., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.02.002

DLPFC controls the rapid neural response to visual threat: An ERP and rTMS study bioRxiv, 2021. Cinq-Mars, J., Blumenthal, A., Grund, A., Hétu, S., Blanchette, I.. DOI 10.1101/2021.10.04.463069