MyBrainRobbie.org - A healthy brain!

Scientific research in neurology and in epidemiology has shown that early prevention and lifelong healthy lifestyles may mitigate the risk of developing chronic diseases including dementia. Eléonore Bayen, doctor and MCU-PH at Pitié-Salpêtrière, with the help of Laurent Cleret De Langavant, researcher member of the NeuroPsychologie Interventionnelle team and MCU-PH, created a character named Robbie and a video that presents scientific knowledge about brain health prevention as a fun and engaging narrative.

Attention shapes visual perception

Visual attention is essential for visual perception. Spatial attention
allows us to grant priority in processing and selectively process
information at a given location. In this talk, I will present empirical
studies:

(1) investigating how endogenous (voluntary) and exogenous (involuntary)
covert attention improve contrast sensitivity at attended locations and
have concurrent costs at unattended locations;

(2) testing predictions of a normalization model of attention; (3)

Learning to read and dyslexia: from theory to intervention

How do children learn to read? How do deficits in various components of the reading network affect learning outcomes? How does remediating one or several components change reading performance? In this talk, I will quickly summarize what we know about how children learn to read. I will then present the first full-blown developmentally plausible computational model of reading acquisition. The model will be used to understand normal and impaired reading development (dyslexia).

The evolution of punishment

Punishment involves paying a cost to harm another individual and is thought to be a key mechanism that promotes cooperation. Nevertheless, it is not clear (1) whether punishment has the effect of converting cheats into cooperators or (2) how punishment can be favoured by selection, given that it involves costs to punishers. Here, I will use the cleaner fish-client mutualism as a model species to show that punishment does indeed promote cooperation in some contexts.

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