François Richer, Ph.D.

François Richer is full professor at the Department of Psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal and researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the CHUM. He is Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center.

CONTACT

Université du Québec à Montréal
Room DS-5785
Montreal, Quebec

Phone: 5987-3000 extension 8911
Email :richer.francois@uqam.ca

SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Richer’s research in clinical neuroscience concentrates on cognitive and behavioural functions. He uses methods of experimental evaluation in perception, movement, and cognition as well as measurements of brain activity (brain potentials, fMRI) to answer questions regarding the cerebral basis of functions like attention, action selection and behaviour regulation and to better characterize functional impairment linked to brain conditions.

STUDIED DISEASES

Tourette syndrome, Huntington’s disease, dementia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lepage, M. & Richer, F. (1996) Inter-response interference contributes to the sequential response deficit observed in frontal lesions. Brain, 119, 1289-1295.

Lepage, M., Beaudoin, G., Boulet, C., O’Brien, I., Bourgouin, P., & Richer, F. (1999) Frontal cortex and the programming of repetitive tapping movements in man: Lesion effects and functional neuroimaging. Cognitive Brain Research, 8, 17-25.

Richer, F., Chouinard, MJ., Rouleau, I. (1999) Frontal lesions impair the attentional control of movements during motor learning. Neuropsychologia, 37, 1427-1435.

Marcantoni, WS., Lévesque, M., Achim, A., Beaudoin, G., Bourgouin, P. & Richer, F. (2001).  Cortical activity associated with attentional interference tasks.  Brain and Cognition, 47, 103-106.

Beuter, A., Titcombe, M.S., Guehl, D., Richer, F. (2001) Effect of deep brain stimulation on amplitude and frequency characteristics of rest tremor in Parkinson’s disease. Thalamus & Related Systems. 1, 203-211.

Richer, F., Boulet, C., Maheu, G., Achim, A. (2002) Frontal and striatal brain lesions increase susceptibility to masking in perceptual decisions. Brain & Cognition, 50, 90-94.

Boulet, C., Lemay, M., Bédard, M.A., Chouinard, M.J., Chouinard, S. & Richer, F. (2005) Early Huntington’s disease affects movements in transformed sensorimotor mappings. Brain & Cognition, 57, 236-243.

Lemay, M., Fimbel, E., Beuter, A. Chouinard, S., Richer F. (2005) Sensorimotor mapping affects movement correction deficits in early Huntington’s disease. Experimental Brain Research, 165, 454-460.

Marti, S., Thibeault, M., Paradis, V., Richer, F. (2006) New object onsets reduce conscious access to unattended targets in the attentional blink. Vision Research, 46, 1646-1654.

Marti, S., Richer, F. Cortical activation changes associated with common-onset and delayed-onset masks. (soumis).

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