The Master’s program is run by the Département d’Études Cognitives (DEC) at ENS-PSL and its laboratories: the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (LSP), the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP), the Institut Jean Nicod (IJN), the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles (LNC2) and the NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle (NPI) group. Some of its courses are taught by instructors affiliated with other institutions.
The directory below brings together all members of the DEC and these external instructors. It is a starting point: browse or search it, then contact researchers directly to discuss an internship or a project.
Internship detail
Select a researcher from the list to see their research theme and what you can do in an internship.
Márta Abrusán
Research theme
formal semantics and pragmatics; presuppositions, perspective shift, lexical semantics and discourse structure, combining computational semantics with formal linguistics
In an internship
work on the semantics/pragmatics of natural language (e.g. analyzing presupposition projection, perspective-sensitivity and free indirect discourse) through theoretical/formal modelling and computational-semantics methods on linguistic data
Pascal Amsili
Research theme
natural language processing and formal linguistics; the grammar–lexicon interface, discourse, coreference, temporal reference and negative polarity
In an internship
investigate questions on tense/temporal reference, coreference, or negation/polarity using corpus and quantitative methods, formal syntactic-semantic analysis, and NLP tools, including cross-dialectal comparison of French
Jean-Baptiste André
Research theme
human social behavior, with an evolutionary perspective: the evolution of cooperation and morality
In an internship
modelling work: evolutionary game theory models, signaling models, and adaptive dynamics
Thomas Andrillon
Research theme
spontaneous fluctuations of consciousness during wakefulness and sleep; attention lapses, mind wandering and mind blanking, "local sleep", dreaming
In an internship
study attentional lapses and wandering/blanking states with behavioral experiments and EEG, analyzing markers of local sleep in the awake brain and how they relate to cognition and subjective experience
Margherita Arcangeli
Research theme
imagination and mental imagery, at the crossroads of philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and aesthetics; the varieties and phenomenology of imagining, thought experiments, aphantasia, and the relations between imagination, memory and emotion
In an internship
work on the varieties and phenomenology of imagination and mental imagery (including aphantasia and imagination–memory relations), or on the cognitive role of thought experiments, either as conceptual analysis or as a philosophy-informed empirical study
Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi
Research theme
cognitive neuropsychology and Huntington's disease; language and cognition, cell-therapy and biotherapy clinical trials
In an internship
carry out neuropsychological and psycholinguistic assessment of patients (e.g. Huntington's disease), analyzing cognitive and clinical data from interventional trials linking brain pathology to language and cognition
Tarryn Balsdon
Research theme
how we use confidence in our visual perception to efficiently interact with the world around us
In an internship
use psychophysics, computational modelling and EEG to tease apart different processes that enable humans to see, act, and self-reflect
João Barbosa
Research theme
computational neuroscience; recurrent neural networks; working memory and decision-making models
In an internship
build theoretical and/or data-driven network models of cognition; use machine learning to unveil neural computations from data
Nicolas Baumard
Research theme
evolutionary and cognitive social science of culture; cultural evolution and historical psychology, the emergence and spread of moralizing religions, cooperation and fairness, romantic love, and the human attraction to fiction and imaginary worlds
In an internship
test evolutionary and cognitive hypotheses about culture using behavioral experiments and surveys, agent-based modelling, and the quantitative analysis of large online and historical datasets, including machine-learning analysis of paintings and large-language-model analysis of historical texts, novels and films
Karim Benchenane
Research theme
systems neuroscience of memory, sleep and brain states; hippocampal–prefrontal interactions and place-cell coding, the role of oscillations and vigilance states in memory consolidation, the creation of explicit memories during sleep, and the links between breathing, oscillations and emotion
In an internship
run in vivo electrophysiological recordings in freely-moving rodents combined with optogenetics and closed-loop stimulation during sleep, alongside behavioral navigation tasks and computational analysis of neural data, to study how memories are formed, consolidated and even created during sleep
Thomas Beuchot
Research theme
the behavioural ecology of personality and its implications
In an internship
how living conditions influence personality traits (cross-cultural data analysis, genomics, computational modelling, etc.), and how to leverage individual differences to promote philanthropic and public action (vignettes, NLP, experiments, etc.)
Alexandre Bluet
Research theme
cultural evolution, cognition and social learning
In an internship
work on the evolution of cuisine through time, agent-based modelling of cultural evolution, and experimental studies of social learning
Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot
Research theme
mathematical and computational modelling of cognition; categorical perception and neural coding, the interplay between deep learning and cognitive science, the geometry of neural representations and information theory, category learning in artificial networks, and music cognition
In an internship
build mathematical and computational models of perception and category learning, train and analyze artificial neural networks, and apply information-theoretic and machine-learning methods to behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) data
Yves Boubenec
Research theme
neural dynamics of auditory perception, sensorimotor learning, and neurodevelopment
In an internship
train ferrets on auditory-motor behavioral tasks, run experiments manipulating attention and brain states, and analyze large-scale electrophysiological and neuroimaging datasets using advanced methods such as dimensionality reduction and neural decoding
Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
Research theme
environmental cognition, law and cognition, rights of nature, behavioral economics
In an internship
explore how people reason and decide about the environment and institutions through behavioral-economics experiments, decision-theoretic modelling, and conceptual/theoretical work at the interface of law, economics and cognitive science
Sophie Bouton
Research theme
cognitive development and pathology; speech perception in typically-developing and clinical populations (e.g. cochlear implants, developmental language disorder)
In an internship
run psychophysical and behavioral speech-perception experiments with children, testing discrimination/identification of phonological features and speech-in-noise across typical and atypical development
Pascal Boyer
Research theme
cognitive and evolutionary anthropology; the cognitive foundations of religion, cultural transmission and memory, morality and kinship, and folk-economic beliefs
In an internship
design and run behavioral experiments on everyday intuitions (for instance about misfortune and victim-blaming, folk-economic beliefs, or the appeal of supernatural concepts), or analyze cross-cultural material against cognitive and evolutionary hypotheses about cultural transmission
Denis Buehler
Research theme
philosophy of mind and cognitive science; human agency, attention, cognitive control, and representational kinds
In an internship
pursue theoretical/philosophical work on agency and attention (e.g. how individual guidance relates to cognitive-control systems, the norms governing attention in inquiry, and the foundations of cognitive-control research), engaging closely with empirical cognitive science
Julia Buzan
Research theme
poverty, inequality, and decision-making
In an internship
use experimental methods, including multiplayer games, to study how socioeconomic constraints and social support influence behavior and decision-making
Giorgia Cantisani
Research theme
auditory neuroscience and audio signal processing; cortical tracking of speech and music
In an internship
record and analyse EEG from listeners hearing speech, music, and sung speech, and build data-driven encoding/decoding models to study auditory attention and the neural tracking of natural sounds
Roberto Casati
Research theme
philosophy of perception; spatial disorientation and cognitive artifacts
In an internship
work on the theory and design of cognitive artifacts (maps, diagrams, navigation aids) to prevent or remediate disorientation, combining conceptual analysis with the study of assisted perception and metacognitive feelings
Alex Cayco Gajic
Research theme
neural networks, neural population dynamics, mechanistic interpretability, learning dynamics, neural manifolds, computational neuroscience
In an internship
build mathematical and neural network models of learning; develop new mathematical methods to analyze large-scale neural and behavioural recordings
Valérian Chambon
Research theme
decision-making, agency, confidence, and motivation
In an internship
work on experimental projects investigating how people make decisions, experience control and confidence in their actions, interact with human or machine partners, and how fundamental motivations shape behavioural flexibility and diversity
Emmanuel Chemla
Research theme
formal and experimental semantics/pragmatics; animal communication
In an internship
investigate how meaning is built from words using methods spanning formal linguistics, psycholinguistic experiments, and machine learning, or apply formal tools to analyse communication in non-human animals
Coralie Chevallier
Research theme
behavioural science and public policy; psychology of poverty, education, and health
In an internship
run behavioural studies and field experiments on how socio-economic conditions shape cognition and decision-making, linking psychological mechanisms of deprivation to education, health, and public policy
Anne Christophe
Research theme
language acquisition; how infants use prosody and function words to bootstrap words and syntax
In an internship
run behavioral experiments with infants and toddlers (and adults) testing how prosodic cues and function words guide lexical segmentation and syntactic analysis, alongside analysis of speech corpora
Simona Cocco
Research theme
statistical physics and inference applied to biology; building quantitative models from data on protein sequences and structures, molecular and viral evolution, RNA design, and neural recordings
In an internship
develop and apply inverse statistical-mechanics and generative machine-learning methods (such as inverse Ising/Potts models and Restricted Boltzmann Machines) to infer models from high-dimensional biological or neural data, at the interface of statistical physics and quantitative biology
Alejandrina Cristia
Research theme
language acquisition across cultures; children's everyday language environments
In an internship
analyse daylong naturalistic audio recordings of children from diverse cultures, combining corpus methods, behavioral studies, computational modelling, and meta-analyses to study how input shapes early language learning
Stanislas Dehaene
Research theme
cognitive neuroimaging of high-level human cognition; consciousness and the global neuronal workspace, the number sense and mathematical cognition, reading and the visual word-form area, the "language of thought" and recursive symbolic composition, and the neuronal-recycling theory of cultural learning
In an internship
combine behavioral experiments with neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG, EEG, intracranial recordings) and computational modelling to study consciousness, reading, arithmetic or language in adults, children and infants, or analyze data from neuropsychological patients
Jérôme Dokic
Research theme
philosophy of mind and cognitive science; the affective phenomenology of experience (feelings of reality, presence, familiarity and confidence, and epistemic feelings), the point-of-view structure shared by perception, imagination and memory, metacognition, and cognitive aesthetics
In an internship
pursue conceptual and phenomenological analysis in close dialogue with empirical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, drawing on ordinary cases and on pathologies such as derealization, Capgras syndrome or Parkinson's disease to test or refine a philosophical account of feelings and metacognition
Emmanuel Dupoux
Research theme
cognitive machine learning; reverse-engineering early language acquisition with self-supervised speech models
In an internship
develop and evaluate self-supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms that discover speech and language units from raw audio, and build cognitive benchmarks comparing artificial models with human (infant) learning
Carlo Geraci
Research theme
syntax and phonology of sign languages (LIS, LSF) and what they reveal about the human language faculty; iconicity, word order, and sign-language cognition
In an internship
study the grammar of sign languages through corpus analysis, fieldwork with deaf signers, and psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. eye-tracking, categorical-perception and processing studies), testing formal syntactic and phonological hypotheses
Valeria Giardino
Research theme
philosophy of mathematical practice and the cognitive science of reasoning; how diagrams, notations and gestures work as cognitive tools, and the role of "manipulative imagination" and external representations in mathematical thinking
In an internship
analyze a concrete corpus of mathematical or scientific representations (diagrams, notations, or recorded gestures and reasoning) as case material for the "manipulative imagination" framework, or carry out a practice-based conceptual study of how a given notation or diagram supports inference
Maria Giavazzi
Research theme
phonology of natural languages, grounding typological generalizations in articulatory, acoustic and perceptual mechanisms; prosodically conditioned phonological alternations
In an internship
investigate the phonetic bases of phonological processes using acoustic and articulatory phonetics, perception experiments and corpus/typological analysis, linking diachronic phonetic precursors to the synchronic grammar of learners
Julie Grèzes
Research theme
the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying perception of and adaptive responses to non-verbal socio-emotional signals; social neuroscience and decision-making
In an internship
design experiments on how perceived social and emotional cues shape attention, motivation and action, collecting behavioral, psychophysiological and neuroimaging data (fMRI, EEG), with applications to psychiatric and neurological conditions
Marc Gurgand
Research theme
economics of education, labor economics, methodology and implementation of large-scale social experiments
In an internship
Contact the researcher directly to discuss possible projects.
Boris Gutkin
Research theme
computational and mathematical neuroscience of neural circuit dynamics; computational models of neuromodulation and of addiction; motivated behaviour; neuronal oscillatory dynamics and their function
In an internship
build and analyse mathematical and computational models of spiking neurons, circuits and networks, linking neural dynamics to cognitive function, motivated behaviour and reward/addiction, with possible machine-learning components
Vincent Hakim
Research theme
theoretical and statistical physics applied to biology and neuroscience; the dynamics of recurrent neural networks, biophysical modelling of neural circuits, learning in the cerebellum and cortex, wave propagation in the motor cortex, and cell motility and morphogenesis
In an internship
combine analytical methods from statistical and nonlinear physics with mathematical modelling and large-scale numerical simulation of neural networks and biophysical systems, often in close collaboration with experimental neuroscience or cell-biology labs
Charlotte Jacquemot
Research theme
language and communication cognitive disorders in neurological disease
In an internship
work on questions related to the diagnosis, prediction, and rehabilitation of language and communication cognitive disorders in patients with stroke or neurodegenerative disease
Etienne Koechlin
Research theme
frontal-lobe function in human reasoning, learning, creativity and decision-making; cognitive and computational neuroscience of the prefrontal cortex
In an internship
combine behavioral experiments, computational modelling and neuroimaging (fMRI) to study how the prefrontal cortex arbitrates between behavioral strategies and combines rewards and beliefs in human decision-making
Jeremy Kuhn
Research theme
sign language linguistics; natural language semantics (linguistic meaning); semantic variation and universals across language modalities (signed vs. spoken)
In an internship
Contact the researcher directly to discuss possible projects.
Yair Lakretz
Research theme
neural mechanisms of language processing in brains and artificial systems; how syntax, semantics, reading and phonology are encoded in humans and deep language models
In an internship
probe linguistic structure in deep neural networks and large language models and relate it to human data acquired with fMRI, E/MEG or intracranial recordings, testing linguistic theories through computational and empirical methods
Maël Lebreton
Research theme
the cognitive foundation of economic behavior
In an internship
the research topics I typically supervise investigate questions related to the formation of beliefs and preferences, their biases, and how they feed models of (reinforcement) learning, motivation and decision-making; projects generally mix (online) behavioral experiments with modelling, either in the computational cognitive science or in the behavioral economics tradition
Christian Lorenzi
Research theme
human auditory ecology
In an internship
psychophysical and modelling investigation of biodiversity monitoring and river perception in natural environments for human listeners
Claudia Lunghi
Research theme
human visual plasticity and its neural mechanisms; homeostatic and cross-modal plasticity beyond the critical period
In an internship
run psychophysics experiments on visual plasticity (e.g. short-term monocular deprivation, perceptual learning, binocular rivalry) in typical and sensory-impaired participants, probing the potential to recover or boost visual function in adults
Marine Lunven
Research theme
cognitive neuropsychology of spatial cognition; neural and anatomical substrates of visuospatial neglect and its rehabilitation
In an internship
study spatial cognition and neglect in brain-damaged patients through neuropsychological testing, behavioral paradigms (including virtual reality and prism adaptation) and neuroimaging (structural/resting-state fMRI, white-matter tractography)
Raphaëlle Malassis
Research theme
comparative cognition, ethology, language evolution, consciousness & metacognition, statistical & sequence learning across primate species
In an internship
design and run comparative/ethological experiments testing how non-human and human primates learn sequential regularities, from transitional probabilities to complex artificial grammars; develop non-verbal tasks probing implicit vs. explicit sequence knowledge
Pascal Mamassian
Research theme
(1) visual confidence: confidence sensitivity, process model of confidence, self-consistency; (2) visual time perception: prediction, postdiction, specious present
In an internship
general questions such as "visual confidence under uncertainty and risk" or "when do we perceive an event"
Alda Mari
Research theme
how veridical and non-veridical stances (modality, evaluatives and subjectives) and their evidential grounding behave across different conversational architectures and conversational contexts
In an internship
topics such as grounding in social networks, persuasion and attitudes, and the meaning of evidentials
Salvador Mascarenhas
Research theme
natural-language semantics, logic, and the psychology of reasoning (CoLoR group)
In an internship
bridge formal/linguistic semantics with the experimental study of human inference, e.g. designing behavioral reasoning experiments on illusory inferences and reasoning with alternatives, and building formal models (such as erotetic / question-based accounts of deduction)
Hugo Mercier
Research theme
cognitive and social psychology, cultural evolution
In an internship
conduct experimental studies on how people evaluate other people and the information they communicate, or on what information they share with others
Florent Meyniel
Research theme
uncertainty and the computational brain; Bayesian inference, confidence, and statistical learning
In an internship
study how the brain represents probabilities, confidence and uncertainty during probabilistic learning, combining behavioral experiments, computational/Bayesian modelling, and neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG) of sequence learning and belief updating
Olivier Morin
Research theme
cultural evolution, cognitive anthropology, graphic codes & writing
In an internship
topics such as the shape of letters, the evolution of calendars, the early forerunners of writing, and the predictability of linguistic information
Daniel Nettle
Research theme
the frontiers of cognitive science with social science
In an internship
work on cognitive studies (experiments, experience sampling, theoretical models) that aim to understand social phenomena more usually studied in the social sciences, such as inequality, social stratification, norms, conservatism, and culture
David Nicolas
Research theme
semantics, philosophical logic, and metaphysics; count and mass nouns, plural logic
In an internship
work in formal semantics and philosophy of language on count/mass distinctions, plural logic, gradable expressions and telicity, combining semantic analysis with cross-linguistic data and, where relevant, judgment experiments on noun interpretation
Srdjan Ostojic
Research theme
theoretical & computational neuroscience; network models and recurrent neural networks
In an internship
analyze and build low-rank and recurrent neural network models linking connectivity to low-dimensional dynamics and computation, and use these frameworks to interpret neural recordings from behaving animals
Stefano Palminteri
Research theme
computational modelling of learning and decision-making in humans and machines
In an internship
investigate human and machine learning and decision-making using behavioural experiments and computational models, including projects on human–LLM interaction and behavioural interventions designed to correct misconceptions and improve behavior
Elena Pasquinelli
Research theme
philosophy of the cognitive sciences and their role in society and education; science education and inquiry-based learning, critical thinking and rational belief, epistemic trust between science and citizens, and neuromyths and misconceptions about the brain
In an internship
combine conceptual analysis with the design and rigorous evaluation of educational programs (including randomized controlled trials, for instance on critical thinking), translating cognitive-science evidence into classroom teaching practice
Jérôme Pelletier
Research theme
philosophy of fiction and analytic aesthetics; the semantics of fictional discourse and the emotional and aesthetic experience of artworks, at the interface of philosophy of mind and cognitive science
In an internship
work at the philosophy/cognitive-science interface on how people engage emotionally and aesthetically with fiction, for instance helping to design or analyze experiments on responses to paintings, film or photographs, or developing a conceptual analysis of fictional emotions
Sharon Peperkamp
Research theme
early language acquisition (especially phonology) and adult speech perception
In an internship
mostly experimental work, either with infants (in the babylab) or with adults (online and/or in the lab)
Mathieu Perona
Research theme
subjective well-being and behavioural public policy
In an internship
analyze large-scale survey data on the determinants of well-being (health, education, social relationships, trust, economic environment), apply quantitative methods to measure subjective well-being in France, and translate findings into public-policy insights
Daniel Pressnitzer
Research theme
auditory perception, memory, perceptual illusions, music
In an internship
experimental (in-lab and online psychophysics) or computational internships on auditory perception, with current projects on, for example, the links between perception and memory, illusions, and interindividual differences
Franck Ramus
Research theme
individual differences in cognitive development and in school achievement, their cognitive and neural basis, and the underlying genetic and environmental factors, both normal and pathological, with particular expertise on developmental dyslexia and an interest in sex differences, and within development a focus on language, literacy and numeracy, general intelligence, and psychiatric disorders, studied with experimental methods and an epidemiological approach relying on birth cohorts and large cognitive, educational and biological databases
In an internship
Contact the researcher directly to discuss possible projects.
Jonas Ranft
Research theme
biophysics of synapses and network dynamics; neuronal modeling
In an internship
build biophysical and computational models spanning scales, from the molecular organization and stability of postsynaptic scaffolds (e.g. receptor–gephyrin domains) to the collective dynamics of spatially-structured neuronal networks (synchronization, stochasticity, phase waves)
François Recanati
Research theme
philosophy of language and mind; the theory of reference and mental files, context-dependence in language and thought, speech-act theory and truth-conditional pragmatics
In an internship
pursue a conceptual project in the philosophy of language and mind, for instance on mental files and singular or perspectival thought, indexicality and context-dependence, or the semantics/pragmatics interface between literal meaning and what is communicated
Philippe Remy
Research theme
neuroimaging of movement disorders and neurodegenerative disease, with a focus on Parkinson's and Huntington's disease; prognostic and predictive biomarkers and the evaluation of biotherapy and other therapeutic strategies
In an internship
functional and molecular neuroimaging (PET, MRI) of patient cohorts, analyzing imaging biomarkers of dopaminergic and striatal degeneration and linking them to clinical and cognitive measures
Jérôme Sackur
Research theme
consciousness, introspection and the subjective correlates of cognitive mechanisms, with a focus on mind wandering, attention and the role of inner speech in awareness
In an internship
designing and analyzing behavioral experiments on attention and conscious states, using response-time variability and introspective/experience-sampling methods to track ongoing mental states
Ambre Salis
Research theme
animal acoustic communication and its evolution, at the intersection of ecology and linguistics; the meaning, combinatorial rules and syntax of bird calls, mobbing calls and heterospecific comprehension
In an internship
run playback experiments in the field or in aviaries to test how birds decode call sequences (order, composition, number of callers), analyze acoustic recordings, or work on the comparative and evolutionary side of animal linguistics
Bilge Sayim
Research theme
(un)conscious vision, experimental phenomenology, vision & art, metacognition (especially people's access to the origins of the contents of their minds)
In an internship
participate in the full empirical research process, from designing experiments and collecting data to interpreting and presenting findings, including some training in programming and statistical analysis
Camila Scaff
Research theme
how socio-ecological environments shape cognitive and linguistic development; cross-cultural, "beyond-WEIRD" study of early language acquisition in indigenous and diverse-SES populations
In an internship
analyzing daylong audio recordings and large cross-cultural speech corpora, working with quantitative measures of infant vocal and language development across cultures, with possible fieldwork-related data
Philippe Schlenker
In an internship
topics may include (with the required background) formal semantics/pragmatics, sign-language semantics/pragmatics, gesture semantics/pragmatics, and music semantics
Shihab Shamma
Research theme
auditory perception of speech and music, cortical processing of complex sounds, attention-driven plasticity and auditory-motor interactions; computational and neuromorphic models of hearing
In an internship
computational modelling of auditory processing, analysis of neurophysiological and psychoacoustic data, and behavioral experiments on speech, music and attention in real-world listening
Benjamin Spector
Research theme
formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language and the interface between linguistic meaning and reasoning, including probabilistic semantics/pragmatics and experimental approaches
In an internship
building formal semantic/pragmatic analyses and testing their predictions with experimental psycholinguistic studies on meaning, implicature and inference
Heike Stein
Research theme
data-driven computational modelling of behavioral dynamics and their neural control; continuous motor behavior, locomotion and navigation in naturalistic settings, neural population dynamics, and the mechanisms and disruption of working memory in neurological and psychiatric conditions
In an internship
build generative and computational models of behavior, analyze large-scale neural population recordings with dimensionality-reduction and attractor-network approaches, and design quantitative behavioral experiments linking motor and cognitive dynamics to their neural control
Catherine Tallon-Baudry
Research theme
whether and how interoceptive signalling in humans contributes to brain dynamics and to the first-person perspective of subjective, conscious experience
In an internship
depending on the student's background and interests: literature review and conceptual analyses of the literature on brain–body interactions or on the concept of subjectivity; designing experimental paradigms and acquiring not only behavioral and brain data but also gastric, respiratory and cardiac activity to test specific hypotheses on interoceptive signalling and subjective experience; developing and testing methods and models to analyze the brain and the rest of the body jointly
Sho Tsuji
Research theme
how infants learn language through social interaction
In an internship
explore how infants crack the code of language (and why it matters who they learn it with) by taking part in behavioral experiments, the analysis of naturalistic recordings, and cross-cultural comparisons, working at the intersection of developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science
Antoni Valero-Cabré
Research theme
cognitive neuroscience of attention, conscious visual perception and language; brain-network dynamics and neural plasticity, and the causal manipulation and rehabilitation of cognition in healthy individuals and in neurological and neuropsychiatric patients
In an internship
run causal, interventional experiments on human cognition using non-invasive brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS, tACS) combined with scalp and intracranial EEG/MEG, neuroimaging (fMRI, DTI) for targeting and network mapping, and computer-based cognitive testing and rehabilitation paradigms
Virginie van Wassenhove
Research theme
temporal cognition, the conscious experience of temporalities, neural geometry; how the brain codes and represents time
In an internship
depending on background and interest: literature review, developing, piloting and testing an experimental protocol (behavior, neuroimaging), or analyzing existing data
Léo Varnet
Research theme
speech perception: how acoustic information is mapped onto linguistic representations (which cues in the signal let listeners identify phonemes or perceive speech rhythms), with potential applications for hearing-aid technology
In an internship
designing and analyzing behavioral auditory experiments
Frédérique de Vignemont
Research theme
philosophy of mind and cognitive science of the body; bodily awareness and the sense of ownership, body representation, pain and touch, peripersonal space and bodily protection, and their role in self-consciousness and social cognition
In an internship
take a conceptual question about bodily experience (ownership, pain, touch or peripersonal space) and review and synthesize the relevant experimental and clinical evidence, including bodily illusions and neuropsychological disorders, to test or refine a philosophical account
Sophie von Stumm
Research theme
children's differences in cognitive and socio-emotional development
In an internship
work on preregistering research studies, including preparing secondary data analysis
Camille M. Williams
Research theme
psychiatric genetics; imaging genetics; general cognitive ability; psychopathology
In an internship
use large-scale databases and multivariate genetic and behavioral methods to study the genetic, neural, and environmental predictors of cognition and psychiatric disorders
Valentin Wyart
Research theme
cognitive variability and human decision-making under uncertainty; the cognitive, computational and neural mechanisms of inference, learning and choice, including the role of "computation noise"
In an internship
designing behavioral decision-making experiments, computational modelling of choice and learning, and analysis of behavior alongside neural recordings (EEG/fMRI)