Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences - On the same theme https://joliot.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/ARCHIVES/I2BM_anglais/News/Scientific_news/Articles/2013/By-the-sixth-month-of-pregnancy-the-human-brain-is-capable-of-processing-speech.aspx Website of the Frédéric-Joliot Institute of Life Sciences which includes 4 departments: I2BC, DMTS, NeuroSpin and Service hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (SHFJ). The teams are mainly located at the CEA Paris-Saclay center and at the Orsay hospital. en-US https://www.cea.frhttps://www-cea-fr.admsite.extra.cea.fr/Style%20Library/Themes/drf/instituts/images/logo-cea-joliot.png Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences - On the same theme https://joliot.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en What do cognitive neurosciences have to say about our perception of time? https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Cognitive-neurosciences-perception-of-time.aspx A team from NeuroSpin has recently published 3 papers that address the question of how we perceive time from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, using real-life temporal experiments, laboratory experiments and MEG brainwave measurements indicative of the passage of time, and that shed light on how the brain constructs our experience of lived time. Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:00:00 GMT Where and how is the representation of quantities generated in the brain? Study using ultra-high field functional MRI https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Quantities-representation-brain-fMRI-UHF.aspx In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from UNICOG and BAOBAB use high-field functional MRI to reveal the brain areas where the representations of quantities generated by a mental arithmetic operation are encoded. Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMT Dyslexie : certains des dispositifs vendus pour faciliter la lecture ne sont pas efficaces https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Dyslexie-dispositifs-vendus-inefficaces.aspx Les dispositifs tels que les lampes et les lunettes stroboscopiques censés faciliter la lecture des personnes dyslexiques n’auarient en fait aucun impact. C’est ce que révèle une étude menée par une équipe d’UNICOG (NeuroSpin) et publiée dans la revue Proceedings Royal Society. Cognition Scientific result ; Article Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMT Neural representation of uncertainty: towards a consensus? https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Neural-representation-uncertainty-consensus.aspx In a review article published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers, including Florent Meyniel from UNICOG (NeuroSpin), show that the two dominant approaches to the neural representation of uncertainty are complementary and would benefit from being used synergistically. Cognition Scientific result ; Article Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:00:00 GMT Characterization of low-frequency neuronal oscillations in human magnetoencephalography https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Low-frequency-neuronal-oscillations-MEG.aspx NeuroSpin researchers show that spontaneous neuronal oscillations in the 'delta' frequency band (0.5-3 Hz), the wave of unconscious states, can be observed in awake human volunteers using MEG. A step towards characterizing underlying physiological signals? Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result ; Article Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:00 GMT Understanding the relationship between cerebellar structure and social abilities in young subjects with autism-related symptoms https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Relationship-cerebellar-structure-social-abilities-young-autistic.aspx A collaborative study by NeuroSpin researchers, using anatomical MRI data and a dimensional approach in 850 subjects from the Healthy Brain Network cohort, shows how the social skills of these children and adolescents are linked to the structure of their cerebellum Brain ; Cognition ; MRI Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:00:00 GMT Comment le cerveau intègre-t-il efficacement les informations visuelles et auditives de la parole ? https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Parole-integrations-informations-visuelles-et-auditives.aspx Une étude dirigée par une équipe d’UNICOG montre que le cerveau humain optimise l’intégration des informations auditives et visuelles de la parole à différentes échelles anatomiques et fonctionnelles, grâce à un ensemble de réseaux neuronaux hiérarchiquement imbriqués et synchronisés. Brain ; Cognition Scientific result Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT Characterization of the neural representation of confidence during probabilistic learning https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Neural-representation-confidence-probabilistic-learning.aspx Using a dynamic probability learning task and high-field (7T) fMRI, a NeuroSpin team identifies regions in parietal and frontal cortex involved in the neural representation of prediction confidence during human learning Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 10 May 2023 10:00:00 GMT ERC Starting Grant for Timo van Kerkoerle at NeuroSpin! https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Institute/2022/ERC-Starting-Grant-Timo-van-Kerkoerle-NeuroSpin.aspx Timo van Kerkoerle, researcher at NeuroSpin, is one of the 408 winners of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant 2022 call of the European Research Council. Another European success for the Institute. Cognition Neurospin Success ; Europe Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:00:00 GMT First results of the "Confined time" study released in Blursday, a resource to understand our perception of time during lockdown https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Blursday-resource-to-understand-our-time-perception-during-lockdown.aspx The participative study on our time perception during the confinement, led by Virginie van Wassenhove (NeuroSpin), provides the first open database, Blursday, which analyzes the nature of the alterations in our relationship to time during physical and social distancing, as we experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:00:00 GMT Specificity of reading and face recognition cerebral circuits during reading acquisition https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Specificity-of-reading-and-face-recognition-cerebral-circuits.aspx By measuring fMRI responses to written words, faces, houses and checkerboards in three groups of children, pre-readers and beginning readers aged 6 and advanced readers aged 9, a team from UNICOG (NeuroSpin) shows that reading acquisition recycles and specializes a pre-existing but plastic visual circuit connected to language areas. Brain ; MRI ; Learning Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:00:00 GMT Predicting all cognitive activities from images of the functionning brain, it's possible https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Predicting-cognitives-activities-fMRI-maps.aspx A NeuroSpin team succeeded in decoding a large set of human mental processes by training neural networks to predict cognitive labels from a cognitive atlas and by leveraging the data set of NeuroVault, a web-based database for collecting and sharing statistical maps of the human brain. Brain ; Cognition ; MRI ; Artificial intelligence Neurospin Scientific result Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:00:00 GMT Multisensory integration may be a matter of temporal coincidences https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Integration-multisensory-temporal-coincidences.aspx A team at NeuroSpin, in collaboration with the University of Ulm (Germany), published a study in Nature Communications that suggests the existence of multisensory correlation detectors in the human brain. Brain ; Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 18 May 2022 10:00:00 GMT The New York Times is interested in the studies on the sensitivity to geometry conducted at NeuroSpin https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Press/2022/The-New-York-Times-geometrie-NeuroSpin.aspx In an article in the New York Times, Stanislas Dehaene (NeuroSpin director) and Mathias Sablé-Meyer (PhD student) discuss recent results obtained in collaboration with the Collège de France, the CNRS and the University of Paris 8 that show that humans have a universal capacity to understand abstract geometric concepts. Cognition ; Artificial intelligence Researchers ; general public Neurospin réseaux neuronaux;modélisation;psychologie exoérimentale;réseaux convolutionnels;cognition comparée; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT Deep brain stimulation of the thalamus restores signatures of consciousness https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/thalamus-DBS-signatures-conscience.aspx Using fMRI and EEG, NeuroSpin and ICM researchers show that deep brain stimulation of the central part of the thalamus restores the richness of brain activity specific to consciousness, which is "switched off" in an anesthetized non-human primate. This work paves the way for clinical studies in patients with consciousness disorders. Cognition ; MRI Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT AI: predicting simply and efficiently like the brain https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/IA-predict-like-brain-gated-recurrence.aspx Two researchers of UNICOG/NeuroSpin show that a gated recurrence model of neural networks would allow to make efficient and simple predictions, like our brain, in different environments. In addition to being biologically plausible, this model would be generalizable. Brain ; Artificial intelligence ; Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result sciences cognitives;Bayes; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:00:00 GMT The genetic architecture of language functional connectivity revealed https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Genetic-architecture-language-functional-connectivity.aspx Using data from the UK Biobank, the world's largest general population imaging-genetics cohort, a collaboration led by a team at BAOBAB (NeuroSpin) has identified genes involved in the genetic architecture of language functional connectivity. These genes could be a priority for studying natural language. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition ; Genomics Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:00:00 GMT Minimal computational models accounting for emergence of a specific region underlying orthographic coding https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2021/CNN-accounting-for-emergence-of-specific-region-underlying-orthographic-coding.aspx ​Researchers from NeuroSpin designed, trained and tested biologically plausible artificial deep neural networks to identify pictures and written words. They show that these may suffice to account for emergence during reading acquisition of the visual word form area, a specific region underlying orthographic coding. Cognition ; Artificial intelligence Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:00:00 GMT A combinatorial neural code for speech is present in the infant https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2021/Combinatorial-neural-code-speech-infant.aspx Researchers at UNICOG (NeuroSpin) show, using a high-resolution electroencephalographic system, that speech, an extremely complex and variable acoustic signal, is perceived by infants as a sequence of stable and invariant segments through an encoding based on distinctive and orthogonal phonetic features, such as manner and place of articulation, which are secondarily combined into phonemes, such as ″b″ or ″m″. Brain ; Cognition Scientific result Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:00:00 GMT Humans Share an Exceptional Sense of Geometry https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2021/Humains-geometrie.aspx Research from CEA, Collège de France, CNRS and Université Paris 8 shows that humans share a universal ability to understand abstract geometric concepts. This human ability does not depend on age, culture or education, but does not exist in the non-human primates tested. PNAS has just published their results. Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result réseaux neuronaux;modélisation;cognition comparée;psychologie expérimentale; Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:00:00 GMT BRICON, a project of the Human Brain Project for NeuroSpin (UNICOG) https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Institute/2020/BRICON-project-Human-Brain-Project-NeuroSpin.aspx Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos (NeuroSpin) obtains funding from the Human Brain Project for BRICON (Brain Inspired Consciousness), a project of HBP's neuroscience activities. Brain ; Cognition News ; Article Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:00:00 GMT Analysis of multitask functional MRI data for the establishment of a neurocognitive atlas of the human brain https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2020/Analysis-multitask-functional-MRI-data-IBC.aspx In this study, NeuroSpin researchers leveraged the Individual Brain Charting (IBC) dataset, acquired by high-resolution functional MRI during the performance of behavioural tasks, to investigate the feasibility of individual mapping of the cognitive components underlying the tasks. They thus individualized six regions of interest in the language network and established their cognitive profile. MRI ; Cognition Scientific result Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:00:00 GMT Functional neuroanatomy of number processing at high-resolution https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2020/Functional-neuroanatomy-number-processing.aspx NeuroSpin researchers used ultra-high field (7 Tesla) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to better localize the processing and manipulation of numbers in the human brain. The results, which enrich our understanding of the functional organization of the intra-parietal sulcus, the cerebral center of digitization, are published in NeuroImage. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition ; Mathematics Scientific result Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:00:00 GMT Put your activity-silent non-conscious working memory to work and it ceases to be both silent and non-conscious https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2019/Activity-silent-non-conscious-working-memory-at-work.aspx A NeuroSpin team showed that the mere short-term storage of information may proceed without consciousness or persistent neural activity, but that manipulating information in working memory requires both. This study, thereby reconciling a hotly debated topic in the field of neuroscience, was published in PNAS. Cognition Researchers Saclay Scientific result working memory;consciousness;MEG; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:00:00 GMT Understanding autism: novel brain imaging study challenges the dominant explanation https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2018/autism-novel-brain-imaging-study-challenges-dominant-explanation.aspx As part of the InFoR-Autism scientific program involving NeuroSpin, a new neuroimaging study has revealed a correlation between decreased local anatomical connectivity and social cognitive deficits in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Published in the renowned journal Brain, the results challenge the dominant theoretical model explaining ASD and could pave the way for the exploration of new therapeutic approaches. Cognition ; MRI ; Diseases Neurospin Scientific result IRM de diffusion;autisme; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:00:00 GMT How the brain learns to read https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2018/brain-learns-to-read.aspx Researchers from NeuroSpin (UNICOG) highlighted how the specific region of word recognition develops during the process of learning to read among children during first grade. This work, which helped to locate a "mailbox" in the left hemisphere, was published in the journal PLOS Biology and was the subject of a press release on March 13, 2018. Brain ; Learning Scientific result Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:00:00 GMT If you want to be recognized by your baby, stand on his left https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2017/If-you-want-to-be-recognized-by-your-young-baby.aspx ​A NeuroSpin Research Team (UNICOG) has shown, as a result of cerebral electrical activity, that the baby orientates himself to people's faces around him since his birth. He learns quickly to recognize them, but he does so with his right hemisphere in the first months of life. These works are published in the journal Nature Human Behavior. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition Scientific result Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:00:00 GMT Origins of the brain networks for advanced mathematics in expert mathematicians https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/ARCHIVES/I2BM_anglais/News/Scientific_news/Articles/2016/Origins-of-the-brain-networks-for-advanced-mathematics-in-expert-mathematicians.aspx Two researchers of Neurospin have just revealed that the brain possesses a network of cerebral areas involved in the high-level mathematical​ as in the simplest arithmetic operations.​​ Cognition Scientific result ; Press release Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:00:00 GMT Stanislas Dehaene has received the “Lire” prize for scientific book of the year https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/ARCHIVES/I2BM_anglais/News/Scientific_news/Articles/2014/Stanislas-Dehaene-has-received-the-Lire-prize-for-scientific-book-of-the-year.aspx Stanislas Dehaene, professor at the Collège de France and a researcher at the CEA-I2BM, has won the “Lire” prize for the best book of the year in the science category, for “Le code de la conscience” (The Code of Consciousness). Scientific literacy ; Cognition Fontenay-aux-Roses Prizes and awards Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:00:00 GMT Preference for handedness and language: is there a dominant hemisphere? https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/ARCHIVES/I2BM_anglais/News/Scientific_news/Articles/2014/Preference-for-handedness-and-language-is-there-a-dominant-hemisphere.aspx By exploiting a large database of psychometric data and brain imaging, the Neurofunctional Imaging Group from Bordeaux has shown that the location of the brain’s language areas is independent of being right- or left-handed ... except for a very small fraction of left-handed people. This work was published in PLoS One on June 30, 2014. Cognition Fontenay-aux-Roses Scientific result Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:00:00 GMT The shape of the brain contributes to children's learning ability https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/ARCHIVES/I2BM_anglais/News/Scientific_news/Articles/2013/The-shape-of-the-brain-contributes-to-children's-learning-ability.aspx Brain anatomy plays a major role in cognitive control, a key skill in learning and academic success. This finding is the result of research carried out by the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (CNRS/Université Paris Descartes/Université de Caen Basse-Normandie), in collaboration with the NeuroSpin imaging center (CEA). Brain ; Learning ; Medical imaging ; MRI Fontenay-aux-Roses Scientific result Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:00:00 GMT By the sixth month of pregnancy,the human brain is capable of processing speech https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/ARCHIVES/I2BM_anglais/News/Scientific_news/Articles/2013/By-the-sixth-month-of-pregnancy-the-human-brain-is-capable-of-processing-speech.aspx The immature brain of a premature infant is capable, at the age of three months pre-term, of distinguishing syllables uttered by male and female voices. These results obtained by INSERM researchers at the University of Picardy Jules Verne and the CEA’s NeuroSpin Imaging Centre highlight the very early sophisticated organisation of the regions of the brain involved in language-processing and social communication in humans. Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:00:00 GMT