DEC Linguistics

This group's focus is on structures and meaning, which are studied from a linguistic, logical, philosophical, and experimental perspective.
The aim is to understand the rules governing linguistic forms and the rules by which speakers assign truth conditions to sentences (syntax/semantics interface, model-theoretic semantics); how these rules interact with reasoning (pragmatics); what are the proper conceptual and formal foundations to understand them (philosophy of language, logic); and how these rules are realized in the mind/brain (psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics).

Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (INSERM U960)

The Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives intends to shed light on the biological foundations of human mental functions and their eventual degradations in neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases. This research is based on experimental psychology, computational modelling and neuroimaging. The Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives is composed of five teams: Frontal Lobe Functions Group, Group for Neural Theory, Visual Cognition Group, Social Cognition group, Economic Decision-Making Group.

Institut Jean Nicod (UMR 8129)

The Institut Jean Nicod is a multidisciplinary CNRS research unit created in 2002, with two university-level affiliations: the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). It is a cognitive science laboratory with about eighty members, of whom half are doctoral students, the other half including about fifteen researchers attached to the CNRS, along with teacher- researchers and post-doctoral associates.