Richard LeGrand
E-mail: richard.legrand@kwantlen.ca
Voice Mail: 9347
Phone: 604.599.3352 Surrey
Office Location: C2881-13 Surrey
List of courses taught:
- Psyc 1100 Introduction to Psychology: Basic Processes
- Psyc 2375 Perception
- Psyc 2385 Cognition
Educational background: B.A. (Hons)(Mc Gill), Ph.D. (McMaster), Postdoc (U. Vic)
Areas Interest and Current Research: I am interested in studying the brain mechanisms that underlie various aspects of face processing such as detecting that a stimulus is a face, knowing who a person is (facial identity) and what mood they are in (facial expression). To do so, I study the emergence of face processing skills during infancy, their maturation during childhood, and expert face processing in adulthood. I also study various patient populations who have severe deficits processing faces including such as patients with prosopagnosia (difficulty recognizing faces following brain injury), autism spectrum disorder, and recovery from congenital cataract. I study face processing skills using both behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Recently I have begun using event-related potentials to examine the temporal dynamics of face perception (in particular the N170 and N250 components).
"I am available for supervising honour students."
Selected Publications:
- Le Grand, R., Mondloch, C.J., Maurer, D., & Brent, H. (2004). Impairment in holistic face processing following early visual deprivation. Psychological Science, 15, 762-768.
- Le Grand, R., Mondloch, C.J., Maurer, D., & Brent, H. (2003). Expert face processing requires visual input to the right hemisphere during infancy. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1108-1112.
- Mondloch, C.J., Geldart, S., Maurer, D. & Le Grand, R. (2003). Developmental changes in face processing skills. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 86: 67-84.
- Maurer, D., Le Grand, R., & Mondloch, C.J. (2002). The many faces of configural processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6: 255-260.
- Le Grand, R., Mondloch, C.J., Maurer, D., & Brent, H. (2001). Early visual experience and face processing. Nature, 410: 890.
