team

Christina Yi Jin, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow in the EXPERIENCE Project. Her background is machine learning with neurophysiological data to detect the changes of mental states as well as understanding the underlying neural mechanism. While having an interest in various topics regarding artificial consciousness, her current post-doc work at the NeuroSpin will be a virtual reality study in which participants’ internal clocks synchronize.

Yvan Nédélec, M.Sc. joined the team as a master student for his 6 months internship, and he is now pursuing his PhD in the Wildtimes project. WildTimes aims at characterizing our conscious experience of time in complex environments, such as train travels, bridging the gap between laboratory experimental psychology and real-life situations. He investigates how temporal information from the environment impacts our internal representations of duration to shape our experience of time. To do that, he uses tasks drawn from experimental psychology combined with portable neuroimaging technics such as EEG. His main focus is to understand how the brain uses temporal information from the environment and its own dynamic, allowing us to perceive a continuous unfolding world…

Robert Hajjar, M.Sc is a master student in M2 at IPP ( Institut Polytechnique de Paris). I am doing a 6 month internship working on the traveling waves analyses of MEG and EEG human brain recordings during quiet wakefulness and controlled tasks describing the implication of alpha activity in temporal cognition. In collaboration with Alain Destexhe (NeuroPSI), we will test generative models of alpha activity using The Virtual Brain to describe the possible contribution of thalamo-cortical activity in the modulation of cortical alpha bursts or possibly traveling waves. More generally, I am interested in a lot of cognitive science topics such as : consciousness, the functioning of mirror neurons and empathy, brain development in children or education and the means to improve it, and neurogenesis.  I am really happy and excited to join the laboratory and discover an all new environment!

My name is Marianna Lamprou Kokolaki and I am a master student in M2 BIP – Neuroscience at Sorbonne University. I do a six month internship as part of Wildtimes under the supervision of Virginie van Wassenhove .

Anna Razafindrahaba is a M2 in Experience

Andrés Torres Sánchez is a M2

Mathias Vigouroux, is currently a student at the Master 2 of Computational Neuroscience and Neuroengineering at University Paris Saclay and CentraleSupélec, and also in the engineering cursus of ENSAE Paris, the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique. He is pursuing his master thesis (3 months part-time, 6 months full time) at the Cognition  and Brain Dynamics on the bayesian modeling of the unfolding of time prediction under the supervision of Sophie Herbst. His main scientific project is to link our socio-economic behaviors and our perception of the external world to biological factors thanks to statistics and mathematical modeling.

Hi, my name is Cyril. I am a third-year undergraduate student at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research in Paris. My bachelor, “Licence Frontières du Vivant” aims to prepare students for research and give us the opportunity to do internships in laboratories. I am thus starting a three-month internship with Virginie Van Wassenhove in the Brain & Cognition Dynamics team. I will work on the project Time Social Distancing, that examines the effects of physical and social distancing on temporal perspectives and on the perception of temporalities in adults. This study is using validated questionnaires and experimental psychology tasks on a great number of participants in France and abroad and thus gather a big amount of data. I will mainly work on the data analysis of one of the psychology tasks. This internship allows me to put a first (small) foot in research, and to discover the study of our perception of time, which I find fascinating. More broadly, I am very interested in cognitive sciences and their possible applications in the field of education. I am glad to join the lab and in spite of the situation, I want to take full advantage of this experience !