À l'occasion des 10 ans du Global Brain Health Institute, l'ENS s’associe à cet événement avec une conférence dédiée à la prévention, portée par une collaboration académique et hospitalière internationale en France et pays francophones.

Le suivi de l’évolution de la maladie de Parkinson est complexe  car les évaluations actuelles sont souvent coûteuses, longues, et en partie subjectives.

Ample theoretical and empirical evidence shows that people’s evaluations of others are not straightforward. Often, we base our judgements not solely on a person’s actions, but also on what we think others think of the person. This reliance on social information (what we could often call gossip) can readily lead to misapprehensions.

L'objectif de ce projet est de développer l'eCALAP, version digitale du CALAP - Core Assessment of Language Processing - une batterie de rééducation du langage, afin de rendre possible le déploiement automatique d'un arbre thérapeutique personnalisé et standardisé pour la rééducation des patient.es aphasiques, et de promouvoir une évolution de la pratique clinique.

I propose that a field’s diversity is affected by what its members believe is required for success: Fields that value exceptional intellectual talent above all else may inadvertently obstruct the participation of women and (some) minority groups. The environment in these fields may be less welcoming to women and minority groups because of the cultural stereotypes that associate intellectual talent -- brilliance, genius, etc. -- with (white) men.

Why are some things relatively easy to express in language (e.g., geometric shapes) but others hard (e.g., odors)? Various explanations have been suggested for this differential ineffability (i.e., the impossibility of putting phenomena into words). Perhaps it is due to something fundamental about the cognitive architecture of our mind~brains. The ease of naming visual as opposed olfactory entities, for example, has been attributed the amount brain area devoted to processing each sensory modality.

Abstract:

For a long time, economists have assumed that we were cold, self-centred, rational decision makers – so-called Homo economicus; the last few decades have shattered this view. The world we live in and the situations we face are of course rich and complex, revealing puzzling aspects of our behaviour. Optimally Irrational argues that our improved understanding of human behaviour shows that apparent 'biases' are good solutions to practical problems – that many of the 'flaws' identified by behavioural economics are actually adaptive solutions.

Music around the world is incredibly diverse, yet some musical features are widely shared. This raises a question: in what respects does music sound the same or different to people from different cultures? In this talk I will share the results of recent research with the Tsimane’, an indigenous Amazonian society in Bolivia who have limited exposure to Western music. This work suggests that there are several universal features of pitch and harmony perception that may constrain musical behavior around the world.