The DEC regularly welcomes visiting professors and researchers.
2025-2026
Laurel Perkins (UCLA), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
2024-2025
Mélissa Gladstone (University of Liverpool), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
Tim Lewens (University of Cambridge), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Lecture series at the ENS:
- From Hidden Hand to Many Hands: The Case of Casabe
- Two direct roles for values in the heart of the sciences
Kristina Nielsen (John Hopkins University), invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs
2024
Holly Bridge (University of Oxford), invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs
2023
Patrick Barclay (Professor, University of Guelph), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Clare Mac Cumhail (Durham University), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
DEC Colloquium, April 2023 - Ethics in Mind: Lessons from the Wartime Quartet
Julia Hermida (National University of Hurlingham), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
DEC Colloquium, September 2023 - Cognitive development and childhood poverty: Correlational and interventional evidence in Argentina
Megha Sundara (UCLA), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
Lecture series at the ENS :
- The emergence of grammatical class in infancy (June 2023)
- What do infants know about permissible sound sequences in their native language? (July 2023)
- How infants discover morphological suffixes and use them to discover phonemes: Experimental and Computational findings (July 2023)
Sam Wilkinson (Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
2022
Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington ), invited by the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles
Norberto Grzywacz (Loyola University, USA)
Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard University), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (Postponed)
2021
Wilson Geisler (University of Texas at Austin), invited by the Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs
Lecture series at the ENS:
- Finding and identifying objects in natural scenes
- Visual Search in Noise and Natural Backgrounds
- Measuring and Modeling Human Performance
2019
David Barner (University of California), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Larry Maloney (NYU, USA)
Alia Martin (University of Wellington)
Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University of New York), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Jonathan Pillow (Princeton)
Conferences and symposium at the ENS:
- Inferring the dynamics of learning from sensory decision-making behavior
- Unlocking single-trial dynamics in parietal cortex during decision-making
Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers University), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Lecture series:
- Metaphysics: from Aristotle to Quine, and back again
- Explanation: the tripartite structure of dependence
- Transcendence: what must the world be like, to be explicable?
Morgan Sonderegger (MC-Gill University), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
2018
Diogo Almeida (New York University Abu Dhabi), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
Paul Howard Portner (Georgetown University), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Lecture series at the ENS: Mood in semantics and pragmatics
- Verbal mood and sentence mood: concepts and current theories
- Comparison in compositional and discourse semantics
- De se interpretation and challenges to the unified analysis
- Control, reality status, and egophoricity
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Lecture series at the ENS: Learning from Imagination
- The Skill of Imagination
- What Imagination Teaches
- Bridging the Divide: Imagining Across Different Experiential Perspectives
- Unconscious Imagination
Helen Lau (University of Maryland, College Park), invited by the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique
Andrew B.Watson (Apple Inc, Cupertino, Californie, USA), invited by the Institut Jean Nicod
Lecture series at the ENS:
- The windows of visibility: Limits to human vision and their application to visual technology
- Computational models of early vision
- Applications of vision models to display engineering
- Advanced methods of perceptual testing
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