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Gabriel Besson received a Masters degree in computer science engineering specializing in image and signal processing at the University of Rennes (France) and an MSc oriented towards Cognitive Science at the University of Paris XI (France). Moving to cognitive neuroscience, he did his Ph.D. in collaboration with the University of Toulouse and the University of Aix-Marseille (France), and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Liège (Belgium), investigating familiarity for visual objects (the acontextual feeling of pre-exposure) and the role of the first cortical regions affected in Alzheimer's disease. To this aim, he had the chance to work with healthy and pathological populations and to use various neuroimaging approaches, like sMRI, PET, EEG, or resting-state fMRI. Gabriel's general interest in visual object representations and how they transfer into knowledge and memory has led him to focus on how the brain does so, during the few hundreds of milliseconds following object presentation, in a way that could allow individual-level object recognition. During the last years, he has been addressing this question, extending it to the involvement of the visual dorsal stream during visual object perception, in a close collaboration with the Proaction lab (University of Coimbra, Portugal) using multivariate computational techniques and EEG.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gabriel Besson

Citation names

  • Besson, Gabriel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0D13-AF96-82CA
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7752-8346

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences
  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
French (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2008/11/15 - 2013/06/12
Concluded
 Diplôme national de docteur en Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé (Doctor)
Major in Neurosciences
Aix-Marseille Université, France

Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, France

Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France
"Temporal approach of visual recognition memory and impairment at the prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/09/15 - 2008/09/15
Concluded
 M.S. in Computer Science (Master)
Major in Cognitive Sciences
Université Paris-Saclay, France
2006/09 - 2007/09
Concluded
 M.S. in Signal and Image Processing (Master)
Université de Rennes 1, France
2004/09 - 2007/09
Concluded
 Master's Degree in Computer Science Engineering (Master)
Major in Digital Image and Communication
University of Rennes 1 - Institute of Superior Education in Computer Science and Communication (IFSIC), France
2005/09 - 2006/09
Concluded
 B.S. Matter Physics (Bachelor)
Université de Rennes 1, France
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01/04 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2016/03/01 - 2019/07/01 Postdoc (Research) Université de Liège, Belgium
Université de Liège, Belgium
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/10/26 - 2023/12/25 The topographical organization of object knowledge in the brain
#802553
PTDC/PSI-GER/30745/2017
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030745
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030745
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 European Research Council

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

European Regional Development Fund
Concluded
2019/07/01 - 2019/09/30 Impact of hippocampal feedback before recognition memory assessment on mnemonic capacity of anterior sub-hippocampal structures
SUB/2019/436323
Post-doc Fellow
Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, France
 Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/07/01 Boosting fluency-based memory decisions in Alzheimer Disease and Amnesia
#T0009.19
Post-doc Fellow
Université de Liège, Belgium
 Université de Liège
Concluded
2017/01/06 - 2019/07/01 Sleep-wake dysfunction in preclinical Alzheimer dementia: Unravelling a link for prevention (COFITAGE)
ARC-SLEEPDEM 17/21-09
Invited Scientist Fellow
Université de Liège, Belgium
 Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2019/07/01 Memory for Entities and Early Tau Accumulation in Prodromal AD
2016-NIRG-394141
Post-doc Fellow
Université de Liège, Belgium
 Alzheimer's Association
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Besson, Gabriel; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Temporal signature of a 'beyond-viewpoint' exemplar-level processing in visual object recognition.". Paper presented in Cognitive neuroscience of memory: The Recollection, familiarity, and novelty detection conference 3rd edition, Liège, 2023.
    Published
  2. Bastin, Christine; Delhaye, Emma; Besson, Gabriel; Folville, Adrien ; Geurten, Marie. "Introductory talk: An Integrative Memory model to understand recollection and familiarity". 2019.
    10.1016/j.bandc.2019.10.002
  3. Daphne Chylinski; Franziska Rudzik; Dorothée Coppieters 'T Wallant; Maxime Van Egroo; Vincenzo Muto; Justinas Narbutas; Pamela Villar González; et al. "Sleep fragmentation is associated with brain tau but not amyloid-ß burden in healthy older adults". 2018.
    10.3389/conf.fnins.2018.95.00054
  4. Besson, Gabriel; Simon, Jessica; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Testing a new memory task sensitive to early entorhinal/perirhinal atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease". 2017.
    10.1016/j.jalz.2017.06.505
Conference poster
  1. Meyer, Patric; Haaf, Florian; Zaiser, Ann-Katrin; Delhaye, Emma; Besson, Gabriel. "Semantic Integration After Fast Mapping: An Arena-based RSA Approach". Paper presented in Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2026.
  2. Besson, Gabriel; Baião, Miguel; Melo, Maria; Almeida, Jorge. "Is exemplar-level representation a core stage of visual object perception?". Paper presented in RFN 2025 - 4th edition of the Recollection, Familiarity, and Novelty Conference, 2025.
  3. Huygue, L; Quenon, L; Gérard, T; Salman, Y; Colmant, L; Besson, Gabriel; Dessain, Q; et al. "Perceptual discrimination performance is more strongly associated with early tau burden than episodic memory scores in cognitively unimpaired individuals.". Paper presented in Cognitive neuroscience of memory: Recollection, familiarity and novelty detection Workshop, Liège, Belgium, 2025.
  4. Delhaye, Emma; Besson, Gabriel; Bahri, Mohamed Ali; Bastin, Christine. "Transentorhinal integrity predicts object fine-grained perceptual and mnemonic discrimination". Paper presented in Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2025.
  5. Baião, Miguel; Walbrin, Jon; Besson, Gabriel; Almeida, Jorge. "Temporal neural dynamics of motor manipulation, function, and visual properties in visual tool processing". Paper presented in APPE - 18th meeting of the Association of Portuguese Experimental Psychology, 2024.
  6. Pilacinski, Artur; Wagner, Lia; Besson, Gabriel; Matos, Maria João; Araujo, Eduardo; Almeida, Jorge; Klaes, Christian. "Looking through the Mind: Neural Underpinnings of Non-Visual Saccades during Thinking". Paper presented in Society for Neuroscience, 2024.
  7. Melo, Maria; Almeida, Jorge; Besson, Gabriel. Corresponding author: Besson, Gabriel. "The speed of visuo-semantic feature extraction: visually-based vs. knowledge-based features". Paper presented in SAW 2023 - Seeing and Acting Workshop: Functional and Neural Perspectives, 2023.
  8. Besson, Gabriel; Baião, Miguel; Walbrin, Jon; Almeida, Jorge. Corresponding author: Besson, Gabriel. "The temporal dynamics of tool-related representations: an RSA study on EEG data". Paper presented in ESCoP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2023.
  9. Baião, Miguel; Amaral, Lénia; Almeida, Jorge; Besson, Gabriel. "Tools under the electroencephaloscope: Towards a unified picture of the neural time course of visual tool processing". Paper presented in ESCoP 2023 - 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 2023.
  10. Baião, Miguel; Walbrin, Jon; Almeida, Jorge; Besson, Gabriel. "Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of motor manipulation, function, and visual properties in visual tool processing". Paper presented in IV Congresso Internacional do CINEICC, 2023.
  11. Besson, Gabriel; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. Corresponding author: Besson, Gabriel. "Temporal signature of a 'beyond-viewpoint' exemplar-level processing in visual object recognition". Paper presented in Cognitive neuroscience of memory: The Recollection, familiarity, and novelty detection conference 3rd edition, 2023.
  12. Matos, Maria João; Besson, Gabriel; Pilacinski, Artur. "Thinking Eyes - an EEG study on the link between eye movements and memory". Paper presented in IV Congresso Internacional do CINEICC, 2023.
  13. Frick, Aurélien; Besson, Gabriel; Salmon, Eric; Delhaye, Emma. "Reduced volume of perirhinal cortex is associated with fine-grained episodic discrimination of conceptually confusable objects in Alzheimer's disease.". Paper presented in European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), 2022.
  14. Besson, Gabriel; Jonin, Pierre-Yves; Barillot, Christian. "Wakeful rest promotes the viewpoint invariance, but not the fine discriminability, of entities mnemonic representations for subsequently familiarity-based recognition". Paper presented in Cognitive neuroscience of memory: Recollection, familiarity and novelty detection, 2019.
  15. Bastin, Christine; Besson, Gabriel. "Aging and binding in short-term memory: Processes involved in conjunctive and relational binding". Paper presented in Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, 2019.
  16. Besson, Gabriel; Delhaye, Emma; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Impaired conceptual discrimination in episodic memory is associated with the integrity of the entorhinal and perirhinal cortices in Alzheimer's disease.". Paper presented in The dynamic and Flexible Nature of Memories, 2019.
  17. Besson, Gabriel; Gabriel, Laurent; Bastin, Christine. "Have you seen - even differently presented - this hat before? 230-ms EEG activity is sensitive to exemplar-level repetition and associates with familiarity performance". Paper presented in Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science, 2019.
  18. Besson, Gabriel; Gabriel, Laurent; Bastin, Christine. "Familiarity for differently-presented visual objects: 230-ms neural activity may underlie exemplar-level representation.". Paper presented in Concepts, Actions and Objects Workshop, 2019.
  19. Delhaye, Emma; Besson, Gabriel; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Conceptual discrimination in episodic memory is associated with the integrity of the entorhinal cortex in Alzheimer's disease". Paper presented in Concepts, Actions and Objects Workshop, 2019.
  20. Jonin, Pierre-Yves; Noël, Audrey ; Besson, Gabriel; Muratot, Sophie ; Belliard, Serge; Barillot, Christian; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "Retrieval practice based on recognition memory: testing the retrieval effort hypothesis". Paper presented in UC Irvine International Conference on Learning and Memory, 2018.
  21. Besson, Gabriel; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Does The Perceptual Representation Hierarchy Differentially Contribute To Familiarity?". Paper presented in UC Irvine International Conference on Learning and Memory, 2018.
  22. Marcotte, Coralie; Delhaye, Emma; Besson, Gabriel; Barbeau, Emmanuel J; Bastin, Christine. "Impact of contextual novelty on memory performance of patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment". Paper presented in 20th Euron PhD days, 2018.
  23. Besson, Gabriel; Simon, Jessica; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Which source of familiarity better probes early entorhinal/perirhinal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease?". Paper presented in Novelty, repetition and the brain, 2017.
  24. Besson, Gabriel; Simon, Jessica; Salmon, Eric; Bastin, Christine. "Testing a new task to probe early entorhinal/perirhinal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease,". Paper presented in Cognitive neuroscience of memory: The Recollection, Familiarity and novelty conference,, 2017.
  25. Delhaye, Emma; Bastin, Christine; Moulin, Christopher; Besson, Gabriel; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "Time course of familiarity and novelty decisions in aging". Paper presented in Novelty, repetition and the brain, 2017.
  26. Jonin, Pierre-Yves; Besson, Gabriel; Pariente, Jérémie ; La Joie, Renaud ; Belliard, Serge; Barillot, Christian; Corouge, Isabelle ; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "When the extended hippocampal system is of no need for context-free memory: a case of developmental amnesia". 2015.
  27. Delhaye, Emma; Bastin, Christine; Moulin, Christopher; Besson, Gabriel; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "Bridging familiarity-based recognition memory and novelty detection: A matter of timing". Paper presented in European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), 2015.
  28. Barbeau, Emmanuel J; Besson, Gabriel; Barragan-Jason, Gladys. "Fast and Famous: Looking for the fastest speed at which a face can be recognized". Paper presented in Vision Science Society, 2013.
  29. Besson, Gabriel; Ceccaldi, Mathieu; Didic M; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "What is the speed of visual recognition memory?". Paper presented in Vision Science Society, 2011.
  30. Besson, Gabriel; Ceccaldi, Mathieu; Didic, Mira ; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "Top-down vs Bottom-up recognition: A direct comparison.". Paper presented in 34th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), 2011.
Journal article
  1. Huyghe, Lara; Salman, Yasmine; Colmant, Lise; Gérard, Thomas; Malotaux, Vincent; Besson, Gabriel; Delhaye, Emma; et al. "Preclinical detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology using conceptual discrimination abilities". The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease 12 9 (2025): 100332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100332.
    10.1016/j.tjpad.2025.100332
  2. Delhaye, Emma; Besson, Gabriel; Bahri, Mohamed Ali; Bastin, Christine. "Object fine-grained discrimination as a sensitive cognitive marker of transentorhinal integrity". Communications Biology 8 1 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08201-w.
    Published • 10.1038/s42003-025-08201-w
  3. Gardette, Jeremy; Besson, Gabriel; Baillet, Marion; Rizzolo, Lou; Narbutas, Justinas; Van Egroo, Maxime; Chylinski, Daphne; et al. "Individual differences in anterograde memory for details relate to posterior hippocampal volume". Cortex 185 (2025): 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.01.012.
    10.1016/j.cortex.2025.01.012
  4. Ronat, Lucas; Hanganu, Alexandru; Chylinski, Daphné; Van Egroo, Maxime; Narbutas, Justinas; Besson, Gabriel; Muto, Vincenzo; et al. "Prediction of cognitive decline in healthy aging based on neuropsychiatric symptoms and PET-biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease". Journal of Neurology 271 4 (2023): 2067-2077. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-12131-0.
    10.1007/s00415-023-12131-0
  5. Amaral, L.; Besson, G.; Caparelli-Dáquer, E.; Bergström, F.; Almeida, J.. "Temporal differences and commonalities between hand and tool neural processing". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): 22270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48180-8.
    Open access • 10.1038/s41598-023-48180-8
  6. Frick, Aurélien; Besson, Gabriel; Salmon, Eric; Delhaye, Emma. "Perirhinal cortex is associated with fine-grained discrimination of conceptually confusable objects in Alzheimer's disease". Neurobiology of Aging 130 (2023): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.06.003.
    Published • 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.06.003
  7. Meyer, François; Justinas, Narbutas; Van Egroo, Maxime; Dapnée, Chylinski; Bahri, Mohamed Ali; Ekaterina, Koshmanova; Besson, Gabriel; et al. "In vivo brainstem tau pathology is related to entorhinal amyloid pathology in middle-aged healthy participants". Alzheimer's & Dementia 19 S3 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.064891.
    10.1002/alz.064891
  8. Narbutas J; Chylinski D; Van Egroo M; Bahri MA; Koshmanova E; Besson G; Muto V; et al. "Positive Effect of Cognitive Reserve on Episodic Memory, Executive and Attentional Functions Taking Into Account Amyloid-Beta, Tau, and Apolipoprotein E Status.". Frontiers in aging neuroscience (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/34122044.
    10.3389/fnagi.2021.666181
  9. Van Egroo M; Narbutas J; Chylinski D; Villar González P; Ghaemmaghami P; Muto V; Schmidt C; et al. "Author Correction: Preserved wake-dependent cortical excitability dynamics predict cognitive fitness beyond age-related brain alterations.". Communications biology (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33833380.
    10.1038/s42003-021-01995-5
  10. Van Egroo M; Chylinski D; Narbutas J; Besson G; Muto V; Schmidt C; Marzoli D; et al. "Early brainstem [18F]THK5351 uptake is linked to cortical hyperexcitability in healthy aging.". JCI insight (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33290274.
    10.1172/jci.insight.142514
  11. Bastin C; Besson G. "Aging and binding in short-term memory: processes involved in conjunctive and relational binding.". Memory (Hove, England) (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33459156.
    10.1080/09658211.2021.1873390
  12. Rizzolo L; Narbutas J; Van Egroo M; Chylinski D; Besson G; Baillet M; Ali Bahri M; et al. "Relationship between brain AD biomarkers and episodic memory performance in healthy aging.". Brain and cognition (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33418512.
    10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105680
  13. Narbutas J; Van Egroo M; Chylinski D; Bahri MA; Koshmanova E; Talwar P; Besson G; et al. "Associations Between Cognitive Complaints, Memory Performance, Mood, and Amyloid-ß Accumulation in Healthy Amyloid Negative Late-Midlife Individuals.". Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/34275899.
    10.3233/jad-210332
  14. Besson G; Simon J; Salmon E; Bastin C. "Familiarity for entities as a sensitive marker of antero-lateral entorhinal atrophy in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.". Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/32320848.
    10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.022
  15. Bastin C; Besson G; Delhaye E; Folville A; Geurten M; Simon J; Willems S; Salmon E. "Interactions with the integrative memory model.". The Behavioral and brain sciences (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31896368.
    10.1017/s0140525x19002024
  16. Van Egroo M; Narbutas J; Chylinski D; Villar González P; Ghaemmaghami P; Muto V; Schmidt C; et al. "Preserved wake-dependent cortical excitability dynamics predict cognitive fitness beyond age-related brain alterations.". Communications biology (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31815203.
    10.1038/s42003-019-0693-y
  17. Narbutas J; Egroo MV; Chylinski D; González PV; Jimenez CG; Besson G; Ghaemmaghami P; et al. "Cognitive efficiency in late midlife is linked to lifestyle characteristics and allostatic load.". Aging (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31503006.
    10.18632/aging.102243
  18. Bastin C; Besson G; Simon J; Delhaye E; Geurten M; Willems S; Salmon E. "An integrative memory model of recollection and familiarity to understand memory deficits.". The Behavioral and brain sciences (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30719958.
    10.1017/s0140525x19000621
  19. Jonin PY; Besson G; La Joie R; Pariente J; Belliard S; Barillot C; Barbeau EJ. "Superior explicit memory despite severe developmental amnesia: In-depth case study and neural correlates.". Hippocampus (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29995351.
    10.1002/hipo.23010
  20. Emma Delhaye; Christine Bastin; Christopher J.A. Moulin; Gabriel Besson; Emmanuel J. Barbeau. "Bridging novelty and familiarity-based recognition memory: A matter of timing". Visual Cognition 25 9-10 (2017): 949-955. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1362090.
    10.1080/13506285.2017.1362090
  21. Bastin C; Besson G. "Impaired familiarity in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease: Commentary on Schoemaker et al. (2016).". Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28217737.
    10.1016/j.dadm.2016.11.008
  22. Besson G; Barragan-Jason G; Thorpe SJ; Fabre-Thorpe M; Puma S; Ceccaldi M; Barbeau EJ. "From face processing to face recognition: Comparing three different processing levels.". Cognition (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27776224.
    10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.004
  23. Besson G; Ceccaldi M; Tramoni E; Felician O; Didic M; Barbeau EJ. "Fast, but not slow, familiarity is preserved in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment.". Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25618326.
    10.1016/j.cortex.2014.10.020
  24. Barragan-Jason G; Besson G; Ceccaldi M; Barbeau EJ. "Fast and Famous: Looking for the Fastest Speed at Which a Face Can be Recognized.". Frontiers in psychology (2013): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23460051.
    10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00100
  25. Besson, Gabriel; Ceccaldi, Mathieu; Didic, Mira ; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "The speed of visual recognition memory". Visual Cognition 20 10 (2012): 1131-1152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2012.724034.
    10.1080/13506285.2012.724034
  26. Besson, Gabriel; Ceccaldi, Mathieu; Barbeau, Emmanuel J. "L'évaluation des processus de la mémoire de reconnaissance". Revue de neuropsychologie Volume 4 4 (2012): 242-254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1684/nrp.2012.0238.
    10.1684/nrp.2012.0238
Preprint
  1. Pilacinski, Artur; Wagner, Lia; Besson, Gabriel; Matos, Maria Joao; Araujo, Eduardo; Klaes, Christian. "Spontaneous eye movements reveal that premotor cortex is involved in human thinking". 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.11.642662.
    10.1101/2025.03.11.642662
  2. Jonin P; Coloignier J; Bannier E; Besson G. "Ultra-short periods of wakeful rest promote the viewpoint-invariance of entities mnemonic representations". 2021. http://europepmc.org/abstract/PPR/PPR387809.
    10.31234/osf.io/t7u9c
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Temporal approach of visual recognition memory and impairment at the prodromal stage of Alzheimer disease". 2013. https://theses.hal.science/tel-00858502.
Working paper
  1. Pilacinski, Artur; Wagner, Lia; Besson, Gabriel; Matos; Araújo, Eduardo; Klaes, Christian. Corresponding author: Pilacinski, Artur. 2024. "Gazing through the mind: neural signatures of non-visual eye movements while thinking (in preparation)".

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Concrete thoughts. Mental landscapes from EEG data. 2022.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07/10 Familiarity-based recognition memory of visual objects: Taking a temporal and representational approach Invitation to give a talk by the Memory and Language team (University of Lisbon)
Memory and Language team (CICPSI), Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/04/23 Is familiarity-based recognition relying on entity-level fluency? A temporal approach to familiarity for visual objects Invitation to give a talk by the Memory and Pathological Aging lab (University of Liège)
Memory and Pathological Aging lab, GIGA-CRC Human Imaging, University of Liège (Liège, Belgium)
2024/05/16 A temporal approach to familiarity-based recognition for visual objects Invitation to visit Prof. Patric Meyer's lab
SRH Hochschule (Heidelberg, Germany)
2024/04/19 Stages of visual object representations depending on the task APPE - 18th meeting of the Association of Portuguese Experimental Psychology
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2023/04/01 Tools under the electroencephaloscope: towards a unified picture of the neural time course of visual tool processing IV Congresso Internacional do CINEICC
CINEICC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/04/01 Neural activity at 230 ms is associated with viewpoint-independent exemplar-level representation and familiarity performance IV Congresso Internacional do CINEICC
CINEICC (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016 The ultimate role of the perirhinal cortex in familiarity: a novel hypothesis. International Conference on Memory (ICOM 6)
2011 How fast is rapid visual recognition memory? 34th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)
2011 What is the speed of visual recognition memory? International Conference on Memory (ICOM 5)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/09 - Current Spatio-temporal organisation of the neural representation of visual objects
Co-supervisor of Miguel António Catalão Baião
 Cognitive Psychology (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Thinking Eyes Why do we move our eyes when we think? - Looking for a neural signature using EEG
Co-supervisor of Maria João Matos
 Interuniversity Masters in Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Dynamique cérébrale des mécanismes perceptuels sous-jacents à la familiarité : hypothèse d'un traitement de l'objet au niveau de l'entité
Co-supervisor of Laurent Gabriel
 Master en sciences psychologiques, à finalité spécialisée en psychologie clinique (Master)
Université de Liège, Belgium

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Communications Psychology Nature Publishing Group

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2010 - 2011 InCOGnu Association for students and young researchers in cognitive science Vice-President
2009 - 2011 Doctoral School CLESCO (Comportement, Langage, Education, Socialisation et Cognition) Student representative

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2025/07/28 - Current Selection Committee for the attribution of a research grant for a Research Assistant (to be supervised by Dr. Artur Pilacinski, University of Coimbra)
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Neuropsicologia e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, Portugal
2023/04 - 2023/05 Selection Committee for the attribution of a research grant for a PhD project (to be supervised by Dr. Artur Pilacinski, University of Coimbra)
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Neuropsicologia e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, Portugal
2022/08/19 - 2022/08/19 Selection Committee for the attribution of a research grant for the "Verão com Ciênca" project
Member
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Neuropsicologia e Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019/10/03 - 2019/10/04 Cognitive neuroscience of memory: Recollection, familiarity and novelty detection Liège University
2017/03/23 - 2017/03/24 Cognitive neuroscience of memory: Recollection, familiarity and novelty detection Liège University
2011 - 2011 34th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/03/01 - 2023/03/08 Practical Classes for the course "Advanced topics in cognitive neuroscience" - 2nd-year bachelor - Topic: "Computational modelling of object recognition" - Title: "The basics of encoding model applied to EEG" (Bachelor) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/02/15 - 2023/02/22 Practical Classes for the course "Advanced topics in cognitive neuroscience" - 2nd-year bachelor - Topic: "Mapping of object knowledge" - Title: "Using RSA in EEG" (Bachelor) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Discrete Time Fourier Transform, FFT and Convolution Theorem (Doctorat) Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, France
2014 - 2014 Basics of statistical analysis CerCo’s summer school ECHARP (Doctorat) Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, France
2012 - 2012 Introduction to bibliographical tools CerCo’s summer school SANDAL (Doctorat) Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, France
2010 - 2012 Learning and Memory Orthoptie (Postgraduate Certificate) Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III - Faculté de Médecine Rangueil, France
2010 - 2012 Neurosciences and language Psychomotricité (Postgraduate Certificate) Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III - Faculté de Médecine Rangueil, France
2011 - 2011 Introduction to the Signal Detection Theory CerCo’s winter school ECHARP (Doctorat) Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, France

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/05 - Current Running MVPA (decoding and cross-decoding analyses) on an EEG dataset about motor affordances for related tools. (PhD student) Lilas Haddad
2023/03 - Current Building representational dissimilarity matrices of tool feature from large language models. (Research Assistant) Nikita Sossounov
2023/01 - 2023/09/22 The speed of visuo-semantic feature extraction: visually-based vs. knowledge-based features under a speeded go/nogo task. (Research Assistent) Maria Melo
2022 - 2022 Object decoding from an encoding model of their features in EEG. (Research Assistant) Sara Scaletti
2022 - 2022 Creating 3D models of tools and literature review on mu waves in tool processing. (3rd-year student) Barbara Azevedo
2022 - 2022 Neural mapping of Near-Death Experiences: an fMRI and EEG approach. (Master thesis) Maria Melo
2022 - 2022 Assisting in the implementation of a pilot study for decoding cognitive tasks from EEG activity and literature review on microstates. (3rd-year student) Adinda Winderickx
2021 - 2021 Building two empirical models of tool similarity through grasp gestures. (3rd-year student) Adinda Winderickx
2018 - 2018 Linking perceptual and conceptual discrimination and the rhinal cortices integrity in Alzheimer's disease. (Master thesis) Brice Misson
2017 - 2017 Impact of aging on memory for entities. (1st-year Master student) Laurie Bronfort
2012 - 2012 Study on the subjective experience accompanying ultra-rapid recognition memory responses. (1st-year Master student) Thibaud Audevard
2011 - 2011 Top-down vs bottom-up recognition: a behavioural study. (1st-year Master student) Sébastien Puma
2011 - 2011 Recognition memory at the predemential stage of Alzheimer's disease. (Master thesis) Sophie Bousquet

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/12/04 - 2024/12/20 Prof. Patric Meyer's Lab visit in SRH (Heidelberg, Germany) SRH Hochschule Heidelberg - Department of Applied Psychology, Germany
2024/05/06 - 2024/05/17 Prof. Patric Meyer's Lab visit in SRH (Heidelberg, Germany) SRH Hochschule Heidelberg - Department of Applied Psychology, Germany
Distinctions

Award

2024 HAW.International
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany
2019 Wallonie-Bruxelles International Excellence Scholarship
Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Belgium
2018 Grant for operating cost
Fondation Léon Fredericq, Belgium