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Portrait d'Adrien Meguerditchian, médaille de bronze du CNRS 2021, chercheur en cognition et neuropsychologie du primate, spécialiste de la communication gestuelle, de la latéralité manuelle et de leurs bases cérébrales au Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive. " Biologiste de formation, j'explore la piste des origines gestuelles de la parole depuis ma rencontre déterminante, lors de mon tout premier stage d'observation de babouins, avec le professeur de psychologie Jacques Vauclair…

#6: How can "insanity” and "mental health” be defined? Does the mental asylum have a repressive or medical function? Does psychiatric practice really serve the interests of patients? Intellectual effervescence around the concepts of psychiatry already bloomed before May 68, but psychiatrists Paul Brétecher and Boris Cyrulnik help us to understand how these events provided new impetus. A new generation of practitioners began to emerge, one that was inspired by the criticism of institutions and…

Can the intonation of somebody's voice tell about their social traits? At IRCAM, researchers conducted experiments to understand how the brain was able to analyse the speech prosody of a speaker, thus demonstrating whether someone is trustworthy or has a domineering attitude towards the person they are talking to. They developed an experimental protocol to understand with which representations in mind one person makes an opinion about the personality of another. Using a phase vocoder, the…

Profile of Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, winner of the 2018 CNRS Silver Medal. Paediatrician, specialising in the study of cognitive function development in children using brain imaging techniques and director of the Developmental Neuroimaging team at the Neurospin research centre.

La créativité, cette aptitude à proposer idées et concepts originaux et cohérents, est un des grands mystères de notre cerveau, qui passionne psychologues et neuroscientifiques. Différentes expériences sont menées auprès d'adultes et d'enfants pour tenter de comprendre la façon dont le cerveau humain appréhende et surtout génère originalité et nouveauté.

Thanks to the testimonies of 1,000 people, the major research programme "13-November" studies how the memory of the November 2015 attacks is constructed. Information is gathered from emotions, intense memories and nightmares. How can these testimonies be transformed into data that can, then, be analysed by the scientific community?

Emotional or behavioural disorders and irrational fears are the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder that can ruin the lives of victims. A team of neuroscience researchers in Marseille is trying to understand why some patients can recover after a few sessions of EMDR therapy based on eye movement, while others will need several years of treatment.

If our five “classical” senses exist to help us sound our environment, our sixth sense has more to do with the inside of our body. In this video, discover the latest research on proprioception, the sense of balance, of relative position and of agility, which plays a fundamental role in all our movements, whether for turning off an alarm clock in the morning, or for successfully making a free throw during a basketball game. The results of these studies could also help people with disorders that…

Phobias are common anxiety disorders which may heavily impact the quality of life of affected people. At the Institute of movement in Marseille, researchers are working on demonstrating the benefits of virtual reality in the treatment of these excessive fears. For a long time, physicians have been using behavioural and cognitive approaches to treat phobias. The principle used here is to expose patients gradually to phobogenic stimulation. However, in the case of some spatial phobias, anxiety…

Hundreds of thousands of people in France are affected by a lack of tactile sense. For a long time, this disorder which is difficult to diagnose and assess has hardly been studied. Yet, far from being trivial, hypoesthesia, i.e., a reduction in the sense of touch, can become a real handicap in everyday life. It is common in the elderly and is also associated with many other disorders. This film is a closer look into several multidisciplinary laboratories doing research on understanding the…

A l'Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Vincent Hayward et Séréna Bochereau font une expérience d'illusion haptique. Dans ce laboratoire, de nombreux dispositifs permettent de découpler les sources d'informations liées au toucher puis de les remettre ensemble pour simuler la perception tactile.

Laure Rondi-Reig, a neurobiologist, and her team “Navigation, Memory and Ageing” from the laboratory of “Neurobiology of Adaptive Processes” work on the brain and in particular on the mechanics which govern the spatial memory.

The Montpellier “Maison des sciences de l'Homme” hosted a meeting concerning the launch of a new research program: the ALIBI program (ALzheimer, Immigration and BIlingualism). During two years, a team composed of linguists, neuropsychologists, a socio-demographer, geriatricians and gerontologists studies the consequences of the Alzheimer ' s disease on the language of a population of Arabic language that has immigrated to France. The objective of this program is to adapt in a linguistic and…

Hypsiboas boans is an arboricole frog, and this common species in South America is not very well-known. Thierry Lengagne, a specialist in animal communication, studies its behaviour.

A group of researchers has launched a vast project to study the reproduction behavior of the tree frog “hyla arborea”. Thierry Lengagne and his team from the laboratory for river hydrosystems ecology develop different experiences to test tree frogs in laboratory, in order to understand the complex mechanisms that determine the choice of their partner.

The study of rodent behaviour plays a crucial role in understanding certain human conditions. Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia occur at different ages but also highlight the characteristics of behavioural flexibility.

This film proposes a visit of the hugest Cuban psychiatric hospital. It shows daily scenes in the hospital, and relates its history and original therapeutically methods used through interviews of the patients, psychiatrists and physicians.

Jean-Pierre Vernant deciphers the myth of the Gorgon ' s death and the use of the mirror, which reflect can destroy the Gorgon ' s power. It allows understanding how the Ancient Greeks conceived what was the glance of death.

Sociologist Daniel Friedmann poses the fundamental question, "What does it mean to be a psychoanalyst?" to ten analysts, who respond by "deconstructing the stereotypical role of the analyst and exploring their vision and practice of their profession." Each of them describes in his or her own way their desire or decision to become an analyst, by describing some part of their careers, addressing the problems of the analyst's responsibility vis-a-vis the analysand, the training…

Eleven psychoanalysts discuss with sociologist Daniel Friedmann the goal of psychoanalysis, its indications, the appearance of new symptoms, how it differs from medicine and from psychiatry, etc. They present their analytic practice, attempting to explain analysis and its purpose as they see it, but refusing to give a definition of "good" or "successful" analysis. Some of them also address the difficulty of identifying the end of analysis, possible failures, and newly…

In this series of interviews, sociologist Daniel Friedmann questions seven psychoanalysts about the relationship between psychoanalysis, politics, and ideology. Drawing on their experience of political engagement or their decision to remain non-political, the analysts bring out the dangers of viewing psychoanalysis as a substitute for power of any sort, and remind us that psychoanalysis must be disengaged from politics. They note that the values of the group are unlike those of the individual,…

Eleven psychoanalysts respond to sociologist Daniel Friedmann's questions about Lacan. Several of them were in analysis with Lacan, and it was this that decided them to become psychoanalysts. They situate themselves with reference to Lacan and his heritage, recalling the importance of his re-reading of Freud, and emphasizing the role of language, the real, the imaginary, and the symbolic. They discuss the philosophical stance which he brought to psychoanalysis and his training of analysts…

Sociologist Daniel Friedmann talks with ten psychoanalysts about the various problems relating to money in psychoanalysis. Their comments intersect as they respond to these questions: What is money for? What value do psychoanalysts assign to it? Is money essential to the success of psychoanalytic treatment? What fees are charged for analysis? What do you think of the free sessions offered in hospitals? What kind of symbolism is associated with money? What is the difference between money and…

Marcher sur le fil, c'est simple et stimulant. La plupart des gens qui nous entourent ignorent que la vie exige un engagement de tout l'être. En cas de stress, de détresse, de trac, dans les moments de performance, en public, la pratique du fil aide à empêcher la chute, à transformer la peur en mouvement, en pouvoir de conviction. Il s'agit de créer un projet, de le visualiser comme une cible virtuelle, et de psychosomatiser par la maîtrise de la respiration. A la façon d'un art…

A re-enactment of a tale of the Dogon people of Sanga, Mali, showing how the Dogons conceive criminality, justice and the death penalty.

A study of self-representation in children aged 19 to 26 months. Each child is placed before a mirror, then before a window, then before another child.

A study of the reactions of children aged 9 months to 5 years, before a mirror or a window, determining the age at which the child begins to recognize itself and others in the mirror.

A study of the mechanism of eye movements through electric device makes it possible to analyze the way we look at things, especially the perception of a work of art.

Based upon experience in swimming pools, analysis of small children's relationship with water: in a new element the children familiarize themselves freely with aquatic breathing and floating and underwater movements.

Observation of children from 12 to 20 months. Their activities and their usual environment: the day nursery. Study of interrelationships among children. This research is in the context of Henri Wallon's work on the emotions of young children.

Study of the reactions of about forty three-to-seven-year-olds to their own image in a mirror or on a video screen.