Jocelyn Faubert (born 1959) is a Canadian psychophysicist best known for his work in the fields of visual perception, vision of the elderly, and neuropsychology.
Faubert oversees the work of a team of researchers and post-doctoral fellows[7] in his multidisciplinary psychophysical and visual perception laboratory.
Research areas include Brain Function, Perception, Multi-sensory integration, Neurolobiological Alterations (Autism, aging, mTBI, Stroke), Neurological systems, Biophonics, Nanophotonics and Optics.
They were able to demonstrate that in the case of autism (unlike fragile x), patients' results are not pathway-specific, but rather are dependent on the complexity of the neural processing required to perceive the image.
For example, the peripheral drift illusion illustrates that temporal differences in luminance processing produce a signal that tricks the motion system.
Between 2007 and 2009, Faubert and colleagues patented a series of technologies designed to aid in the assessment and intervention of early neurobiological alterations (NBA) such as concussions, dementia, developmental disorders (e.g. autism, fragile X) etc.
The device instead is able to check the color of the retinal artery at the back of the eye and render a precise measurement in a matter of seconds.
From the commercial domain, Essilor (an ophthalmic lens company) has partnered with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).