My interests
I am a Junior Professor at Inserm and University Paris-Saclay. I am part of the team "Neuroimaging of Development" within the Unicog Lab. My research focuses on how the human brain learns, represents, and manipulates abstract mathematical concepts. My work combines neuroimaging techniques with school-like testing materials, as I try to bring real-world situations to the lab, by developing and using naturalistic tasks that complement more traditional and controlled tasks.
My background is in both mathematics and cognitive neuroscience. After studying high-level math thinking in professional mathematicians during my PhD thesis supervised by Stanislas Dehaene, I started investigating the processes involved in and the conditions most conducive to math acquisition, as well as the cognitive and neural changes that occur over the course of math education, especially in children. With a Fyssen Foundation fellowship, I first joined the laboratory of Jessica Cantlon at Carnegie Mellon University. I then secured a Marie Curie global fellowship to work conjointly with Elizabeth Spelke at Harvard University and Manuela Piazza at the University of Trento.
