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16-12-2022 - Mai Chunmiao PhD Defense
On December 16th, Mai Chunmiao defended her thesis titled “The development of non-human primate-like grooming behavior in preverbal infants” under the supervision of Angela Sirigu and Irene Cristofori. Congratulations!
16-12-2022 - Labex Cortex Conference : Ilya Monosov
As part of the Labex Cortex Conferences, Ilya Monosov gave a talk about the neurobiology of curiosity. He discussed the biological mechanisms of the intrinsic motivational drives to explore and outlined the circuits through which curiosity can impact value-based economic decision-making in primates and humans.
15-12-2022 - Christmas Party
Before the holidays, everyone was invited to a lunch party during which participants brought a typical dish from their country. A great time was spent altogether!
12-12-2022 - Felipe Rolando PhD Defense
On December 12th, Felipe Rolando defended his thesis titled “Striatal and hippocampal dynamics during time categorization” under the direction of Sylvia Wirth. Congrats!
02-12-2022 - Zixuan Tang PhD Defense
On December 2nd, Zixuan Tang defended her thesis titled “Brain representations and behavioral effects of physical distance on action and of social distance on moral judgements”. Congratulations!
02-12-2022 - Valentin GUIGON PhD Defense
On December 2nd, Valentin GUIGON defended his thesis titled “Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying transmission of uncertain information in humans.”. Congratulations!
01-12-2022 - Jiawei Liu PhD Defense

28-10-2022 - Labex Cortex Conference : David Van Essen

25-10-2022 - Linh lnguyen PhD Defense
On October 25th, Linh lnguyen defended her thesis titled “Reading at the fingertips. What can digital movements inform about visual attention mechanisms in reading acquisition and how they can help”. Congratulations!
07-09-2022 - ISC Seminar : Sabrina Ravel
Sabrina Ravel, part of the Marmobrain collaborative project, discussed the influence of social position on performance in a stimulus-reward association reversal learning task in common marmoset. The tests carried out through automated testing systems in their homecage highlighted the possibility of studying cognitive abilities without water or food constraints.
The results showed that individual cognitive abilities, as well as hierarchy, affect learning speed in marmosets but this wasn’t the case during reversal learning.
12-07-2022 - ISC Seminar : Manuel Varlet
Manuel Varlet from the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development, during his talk “Self-other neural and behavioural mechanisms for coordinating with others” presented new research combining frequency tagging and EEG hyperscanning used to investigate self-other neural and behavioural mechanisms enabling interpersonal coordination using auditory and visual information. He highlighted the importance of leadership roles, and the processes specific to each modality underlying interpersonal synchronisation.
07-07-2022 - Q&A session: Robert Seyfarth

30-06-2022 - Barbecue Party

23-06-2022 - ISC Seminar : Philippe Tobler
Philippe Tobler from the University of Zurich during his talk “Motivational functions of the human midbrain” discussed the nature of the signals of dopamine neurons with the processing of errors in the prediction of both the subjective value and motivational salience of outcomes. Thanks to neuroimaging during a Pavlovian task, analyses revealed that value coding was limited mainly to evidence of reward, in line with the dual dimension hypothesis.
09-06-2022 - ISC Seminar: Jerome Sallet
Jerome Sallet from the Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, during his talk “Circuits for social cognition and foraging of the macaque brain”, presented his work regarding social interactions and circuits involved in making strategic exploratory decisions in macaques. He explained the impact of sociality on brain structure and highlighted the importance of an evolutionary perspective.
17-05-2022 - Mentoring Session - Marc Jeannerod Young Investigator Award

28-04-2022 - ISC Seminar : Abhishek Banerjee

08-04-2022 - Etienne Abassi PhD Defense

07-04-2022 - Kami Koldewyn Seminar
Kami Koldewyn in her talk “Social Interactions in the Social Brain” explored the role of various structures in the “social brain” across development. She showed the posterior superior temporal sulcus as a key region for processing dynamic social interactions, but other regions such as the extrastriate body area (EBA) also show sensitivity to specifically interactive information, depending on stimulus content and context.
29-03-2022 - New paper from the Ape Social Mind Lab
A new paper from the Ape Social Mind Lab with ISC CNRS Affiliation was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society regarding the association between the oxytocinergic system and cooperative behaviors in wild chimpanzees. This system provides the basis of parochial cooperation and suggests that the roots of human parochial altruism exist in chimpanzees.
Lemoine SRT, Samuni L, Crockford C, Wittig RM. 2022 Parochial cooperation in wild chimpanzees: a model to explain the evolution of parochial altruism. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20210149. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0149
25-03-2022 - Marco Tamietto Labex Cortex Conference

08-03-2022 - Celia Loriette Ph.D. Defense

03-03-2022 - ISC Seminar: Haemy Lee Masson

18-02-2022 - A new paper from the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology and Development was published in PNAS regarding visual categorization in infancy
They investigated, using eye-tracking, the development of visual categorization of animate and inanimate objects. In their visual exploration of objects, infants between 4 and 10 months seem to be guided by object salience, according to the animate–inanimate distinction. Then, through their second year of life, they organize their visual exploration based on biologically relevant categories.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35169072/
14-02-2022 - How do infants acquire thought (consciousness?) ?
A new paper from the BabyLab was published on Current Biology. They studied the attentional blink phenomenon in infants, children, and adult participants, using eye-tracking to address how acceleration in information processing affects information processes that contribute to perceptual awareness. The results represent a major advance in our understanding of infant thinking and how it gradually transforms into adult thinking.
https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/comment-la-pensee-la-conscience-vient-aux-nourrissons
Hochmann and Kouider, Acceleration of information processing en route to
perceptual awareness in infancy, Current Biology (2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.029