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Our project aims at better understanding the link between visuo-motor plasticity (by using a short exposure to glasses shifting the visual field) and auditory perception to propose an innovative therapeutic method to reduce hearing loss. There are many evidences showing the therapeutic effects of pr

We hypothesize that the brain may upregulate sensory processes arising from self-generated movements (i.e. active condition), as for the hand engaged in tactile discrimination task (i.e. freely exploring tasks, during a voluntary hand or foot movement). Inversely, such cortical facilitation should n

Until now, the abovementioned difficulties have been mainly thought to be due to a lack of resources or training or to the attitudes expressed by teachers (Hind et al., 2019). In this project, we wish to go beyond these explanations and to propose a more ideological and structural approach notably g

During the first year of life, infants become more and more sensitive to the phonological properties of their mother tongue. The present project aims (i) to understand the mechanisms of brain plasticity that underlie the emergence of phonological categories, (ii) to explore the relationship between

Williams syndrome (WS) is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized by mild to moderate intellectual disability (ID), a heterogeneous cognitive profile, an atypical social behavior, and an unusual acoustic hypersensitivity to noise. The very specific profile of people with WS is probably at least p

More precisely, the present project aims to evaluate and explain the capacity of humans to: (i) discriminate natural soundscapes generated by terrestrial biomes; (ii) recognize biological sound sources (i.e., biophony); (iii) discriminate levels of biodiversity within a soundscape. (i) We have recor

In Task 1, we will examine early cognitive and affective responses to social exclusion. We anticipate that the prioritization of early anti- vs. prosocial responses depends on initial situational appraisals. Specifically, after exclusion, the prospect for consecutive exclusion facilitates cognitive

This research leitmotiv is the investigation of overt motor strategy for facilitating speech perception in a noisy environment. Listening to speech activates cortical regions of the sensorimotor system. The functional role of these regions in speech processing, as well as the conditions of their inv

The project is innovative in several respects: (i) It is interested in a learner profile that is difficult to access and rarely studied in the field of language acquisition. These learners, more and more present on French territory, have an atypical life and training trajectory. (ii) It adopts a r

Numerous studies have shown that the use of humour can facilitate learning in adults, through diverse mechanisms such as enhancing attention and motivation, or reducing stress and anxiety. In a recent groundbreaking study, Esseily et al (2015) highlighted a large effect of laughing in a humorous con

The political and social context makes it more necessary than ever to develop the critical capacities of citizens to deal with the mass of documents that are now spreading very rapidly through the media and social networks. Most of the available studies postulate the existence of a general "critical

The AgeHear project is firmly based on the perspective of access to speech comprehension for the elderly suffering of Age-related hearing loss in a dual framework of both basic and clinical research. Hearing loss is a growing challenge in our modern society, and has a significant socio-economic impa

With a view to combating school failure at the beginning of elementary school, the objective of this project is to analyze the contribution of social, family and school-related factors to children's success or failure in learning to read in the first grade of elementary school (Preparatory Course: P

Learning at school requires cognitive effort. Optimizing these efforts is a key to academic learning achievement. Several thousand published experiments, within the cognitive load theory framework, have identified the factors that contribute to this optimization. The temporal dimension of this optim

REACT is a research project about "reactive practices" — the practices in which we engage in the face of wrongness, such as punishment, blame, shame, and forgiveness. The project addresses theoretical, normative and empirical questions about these practices, with a specific focus on the normative di

Memory processes are modulated by dopamine-dependent reward responses. One of the most pleasurable stimuli of our life, strongly dependent on the dopaminergic reward system, is music. This project will pursue three main objectives: 1) providing evidence for the benefits of musical reward on memory f

The idea that Theory of Mind (ToM) requires explicit reasoning and inference has been recently challenged. We track other people's minds without being aware of it, and even when perspectives of others are irrelevant to our current goals. Intriguingly, this form of implicit ToM directly affects the w

The structural complexity of language is greater than anything found in other species and nevertheless mastered early in life. At two years of age, human infants start producing two-word utterances, a developmental process that ends with the capacity to produce and decode complex sentences such as “

To study key mechanisms in children's math performance, everal experiments will test how distraction influences children’s difficulties in mathematics. In these experiments, children will accomplish math tasks under varying levels of distraction. New tasks involving, among other, crucial executive c

The fast-ACI project aims to develop a robust experimental method to visualize and characterize the auditory mechanisms involved in phoneme recognition. We will first use this technique to map the phonemic representations used by normal-hearing listeners, a long-standing problem in psycholinguistics

Humans are able to respond to others' non-verbal signals - such as emotional expressions - in a very rapid and efficient way. Learning to effectively adapt our behaviors to these socio-emotional signals is key to successful interactions and is a good predictor of mental health across the life span.

Ample research in social sciences and economics suggests that poverty is a phenomenon that tends to persist and reproduce itself (i.e., the "vicious circle of poverty"). Whereas social sciences have focused on the structural and political dynamics subtending the vicious circle of poverty, research i