Experimental platforms presentation

Thanks to the help of Jovanny Parvedy and Clémentine, we made this presentation video of the three experimental platforms at the DEC (the password is DECisCOOL).

Abstract: Can collective intentionality be a matter of mode? At first glance, an important feature seems to distinguish collective intentionality from psychological attitudes: it exhibits a "second-order" aspect, insofar as it is always associated with other attitudes on which it operates, thereby giving rise to collective attitudes such as collective emotions and collective intentions. This feature has led many authors to distance themselves from the mode approach, despite its clear affinities with their own views.

Social categorization is one of the most fundamental mechanisms identified in social psychology. When facing a person, rather than considering her or him in terms of her or his unique characteristics, we instead consider the person based on the social categories to which she or he belongs or, more precisely, to which we think he or she belongs. However, an important question remains largely unresolved: How does social categorization operate when multiple sources of social information, such as gender, ethnicity, age, occupation, etc. are simultaneously available?

Abstract: In light of the alarming decline in biodiversity, conservation efforts have gained increasing prominence in recent decades. Various international bodies, regional organizations, and stakeholders have developed spatial conservation instruments intended to protect ecosystems and biodiversity.

Cette journée d'étude vise à ouvrir un espace de réflexion interdisciplinaire sur la distance qui subsiste entre les recherches et les données à la troisième personne (neuronales, cérébrales) et celles à la première personne (psychanalytiques, phénoménologiques), ainsi que sur les articulations possibles entre ces différentes approches.

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Perception under construction is a new online seminar in philosophy of perception, which finds ts origin in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Perception. The Handbook  will mirror the shifting theoretical landscape of contemporary philosophy of perception.  Not only has there been an increase in research on philosophy of perception but also a shift to more empirically informed philosophical methods, as well as the newfound interest in the diversity of perceptual modalities beyond vision.

PINTS is a one-day meeting that brings together the neuroscience, theory, and systems community across Paris and the Île-de-France region. Talks and posters span experimental, computational, and theoretical work.

Registrations and abstract submissions are open until 06/10/2026.

During conversation, our brains are constantly predicting which word comes next. That ability helps us understand speech in a noisy café, or anticipate a friend’s next sentence. This skill for prediction is also linked closely to our enjoyment of music.

For Professor Shihab Shamma, an auditory neuroscientist at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the University of Maryland in the US, understanding how the brain processes music is a central research question.