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In France, first-year junior school pupils have, in writing as in other subjects, an inconsistent level. Among other things, this inconsistency is linked to the sociological evolution of schools, resulting in particular from democratization, migration patterns and the implementation of a ‘single sch

The goal of this project is to produce a model of human perceptual learning and expertise, that would challenge and even defeat an expert. We will use a situation in which a ball’s trajectory has to be anticipated. Using a bio-inspired approach mimicking the human visual system properties, the netwo

Our brain does not reconstruct images by simply putting together small elements to make bigger elements and ever more complex elements in a bottom-up fashion. Instead, our evolving interpretation of the image informs and constrains this reconstruction process in a top-down fashion, by imposing knowl

Along the evolutionary history, humans have reached a high level of sophistication in the way they interact with the environment. One important step in this process has been the introduction of tools, enabling humans to go beyond the boundaries of their physical possibilities to both sense and act u

This project aims at investigating both experimentally and theoretically the sense of agency in joint action and its specificities. Our first main objective is to investigate experimentally the relations and differences between the respective mechanisms underlying our experience of agency in indiv

Because preschool is the first step in a child's school career, it is necessary to understand how children from all social groups integrate and adapt to it. Oral language plays a key role in this early contact with the world of school: it is the mean and result of socialization at school and the “vi

The APPREL2 project aims to provide an account of the learning and development of the foreign language (FL or L2) lexicon in a schooling context. This context is characterized by the fact that L1 reading acquisition in still ongoing in children and that exposure to the L2 is quantitatively low. The

In this project, I intend to timely exploit the plasticity induced by sensorimotor learning over the network shared with linguistic functions in order to trigger subsequent benefits for language learning. Objective 1: To determine the temporal dynamic of functional and structural plasticity induced

The human adult mind is characterized by the cognitive capacity to combine information in a productive way, which sustains language, reasoning, learning and innovation. Little is known about the developmental origins of these abilities, and how they relate to the acquisition of the lexicon. On one e

Combating educational failure through innovative training applications is essential, especially for people with special needs. ALECTOR attempts to meet this challenge: to leverage document accessibility by developing assistive reading technologies for children with dyslexia and poor-readers. For the

Throughout history, philosophers have valued literature for its cognitive, emotional, and ethical effects: literary fiction has the potential to help understanding complex situations, to provoke ethical experiences and new qualities of feelings (c.f. Wittgenstein). The arts and humanities have alway

Theories of embodied cognition posit the existence of intimate relations between perception, action and object representations. Perception of manipulable objects or perception of object-directed actions would activate the same action representations as those involved in actual action execution. More

The ability to make good decisions is critical for the survival of individuals or organisations. In this project, we will investigate in particular the role of metacognition in decision making. Metacognition is the ability of agents to assess, evaluate and regulate their own cognitive processes and

Beliefs about competence can have both positive and negative effects on the acquisition of basic knowledge, which may impact students’ future school and social success. The SchoolBias program focused on the judgments that students make of their own school competence, and paid special attention to th

Although the human species has unique cognitive abilities to reason, our thinking is often biased by erroneous intuitions. From an educational and societal perspective such bias is a massive problem and cognitive scientists have been trying hard to identify its nature. Recent studies have suggested

Despite quite detailed knowledge about the representations and processes underpinning language in the brain, two research traditions have prevailed in the field: (1) Language research is typically modality-specific, with a dissociation between the production and comprehension of language in terms of

Our project exploits music as a privileged model to investigate brain functions and its possibility to boost language processing.The first objective is to make substantial advances in understanding the modification of the oscillatory brain activity induced by a musical or linguistic temporal structu