Ponce, A. F. et al. Individual Brain Charting: fifth release of high-resolution fMRI data for cognitive mapping.Scientific data, 03/2026.
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Hamami, Y. & Amalric, M.Going round in circles: A cognitive bias in geometric reasoning.Open Mind, 12/2024;8.
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Amalric, M. & Cantlon, J. Entropy, complexity, and maturity in children’s neural responses during naturalistic video lessons.Cortex, 06/2023;163.
DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.02.008
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Amalric, M., Roveyaz, P., Dehaene, S. Evaluating the impact of short educational videos on the cortical networks for mathematics.PNAS, 02/2023;120(6).
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2213430120
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Amalric, M. & Cantlon, J. Common neural functions during children’s learning from naturalistic and controlled paradigms.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 03/2022.
DOI:10.1162/jocn_a_0184
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Al Roumi, F., Marti, S., Wang, L., Amalric, M., Dehaene, S. Mental compression of spatial sequences in human working memory using numerical and geometrical primitives.Neuron, 07/2021.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.009.
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Sablé-Meyer, M., Fagot, J., Caparos, S., van Kerkoerle, T., Amalric, M., Dehaene, S. Sensitivity to geometric shape regularity in humans and baboons: A putative signature of human singularity.PNAS, 04/2021. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2023123118.
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Dillon, M. R., Duyck, M., Dehaene, S., Amalric, M., Izard, V. Geometric categories in cognition.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 01/2019.
DOI:10.1037/xhp0000663
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Amalric, M., Dehaene, S. A distinct cortical network for mathematical knowledge in the human brain.NeuroImage, 04/2019.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.001
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Wang, L., Amalric, M., Fang, W., Jiang, X., Pallier, C., Figueira, S., Sigman, M., Dehaene, S. Representation of spatial sequences using nested rules in human prefrontal cortex.NeuroImage, 02/2019. DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.061
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Le Guen, Y., Amalric, M., Pinel, P., Pallier, C., Frouin, V. Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive performance and brain activations during verbal math and story comprehension fMRI tasks.Scientific Reports, 12/2018. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-35665-0
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Romano, S., Salles A., Amalric, M., Dehaene, S., Sigman, M., Figueira, S. Bayesian validation of grammar productions for the language of thought.PloS one, 07/2018.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0200420
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Amalric, M., Dehaene, S. Cortical Circuits for Mathematical Knowledge: Evidence for a Major Subdivision within the Brain Semantic Networks.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 01/2018.
DOI:10.1098/rstb.2016.0515
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Amalric, M., Denghien, I., Dehaene, S. On the role of visual experience in mathematical development: Evidence from blind mathematicians.Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 10/2017.
DOI:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.09.007 [PDF]
Amalric, M., Wang, L., Pica, P., Figueira, S., Sigman, M., Dehaene, S. The language of geometry: Fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers.PlOS Computational Biology, 01/2017. DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005273
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Amalric, M., & Dehaene, S. Origins of the brain networks for advanced mathematics in expert mathematicians.PNAS, 04/2016;113(18).
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1603205113
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Manuscripts under review
Amalric, M., Pierguidi, G., Terzani, M., Gaimarri, G., Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Di Domenico, C., Vallortigara, G., Viganò, S. & Piazza, M.
The brain encodes pure logic beyond natural language and at the boundaries with mathematics.
Moreno, A., Amalric, M., Pietrantoni, M., Becuwe, S., Thirion, B., Pallier, C., Dehaene-Lambertz, G. & Dehaene, S.
Languages of the brain: fMRI dissection of the amodal networks for language, mathematics, and social knowledge.
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Amalric, M., Spelke, E. & Piazza, M. Limits to intuition in number compositionality: the case of multiplicative commutativity.[HTML]
Roth, E., Maldonado Moscoso, P. A. & Amalric, M.Functional Trajectories of the Math-Responsive Brain Network: Towards Stability and Cross-Format Integration of Arithmetic Representations.
Book chapters
Amalric, M., Hamami, Y., Sablé-Meyer, M. Geometric Cognition: Developmental, Computational, and Neural Perspectives.In Handbook of Mathematical Cognition (Routledge, in press).
Amalric, M. Neural basis of mathematical activity in the human brain.In Heterogeneous Contributions to Numerical Cognition (Elsevier, 2021). DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-817414-2.00009-9
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Amalric, M. Chapitre 6. Représentation et manipulation des concepts mathématiques par le cerveau humain.In Les signatures biologiques de la conscience (EDP Sciences, 2021). DOI:10.1051/978-2-7598-2612-4.c009.
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PhD Thesis
A full version of my PhD manuscript can be found here.
Talks
Lopiccolo, D., Hamami, Y., Amalric, M., Hafri, A. Sizing up a bias in geometric reasoning: How instructional contexts and visuospatial constraints impact performance.
Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS, Padova); 06/2026.
Hamami, Y., Amalric, M.From intuition to deduction: Diagram-based geometric reasoning in children and adults.
Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS, Padova); 06/2026.
Amalric, M.Do school-age children learn that 2 x 3 = 3 x 2 relying on previous intuitions?
Cognitive Science Society (CogSci, Sydney); 07/2023.
Amalric, M.Cognitive and neural bases of math conceptual development.
International Neuropsychology Symposium (INS, Sardinia); 06/2023.
Amalric, M.On the foundational role of geometry in mathematics.
Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS, Loughborough); 06/2023.
Amalric, M.Advanced mathematics activity in the human brain.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS, San Francisco); 04/2022.
Amalric, M.Can a short video enhance the adults’ brain networks for mathematics?
First Uruguayan Congress in Cognitive Science (SUCCC, Montevideo); 11/2021.
Amalric, M.Do children know that 2x3 = 3x2?
McDonnell workshop on the foundations of numerical cognition (virtual), 03/2021.
Amalric, M.Mathematical thinking and visualization: a neuroimaging approach.
European Cognitive Science Society (EuroCogSci, Bochum), 09/2019.
Amalric, M.Brain mechanisms involved in the learning and processing of high level mathematical concepts.
Workshop "Brain mechanisms involved in the learning and processing of high level mathematical concepts", Ghent, 06/2019.
Amalric, M.A language of geometry in the brain.
Workshop “Learning as program induction” for Cognitive Science Society (CogSci, Madison), 06/2018.
Posters
Roth, E. & Amalric, M. Neural integration of operations across symbolic and non-symbolic formats in the math-responsive network.
Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society (MCLS, Padova); 06/2026.
Cognitive Science Society (CogSci, Rio de Janeiro); 07/2026.
Pownall, O., Hamami, Y., Spelke, E. & Amalric, M.Getting into shapes: Exploring a comparable spatial deductive reasoning bias in children and adults.[PDF]
Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs, Rovereto); 05/2025.
Amalric, M., Spelke, E., Piazza, M. Representations matter in children’s understanding that “2 x 3 = 3 x 2”.[PDF]
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN, Bressanone); 01/2025.
Amalric, M., Villain, M., Celikay, I.E., Maldonado Moscoso, P., Bayen, E., Piazza, M., Dehaene, S., Cohen, L. Plasticity of the cortical network responsive to mathematics after
widespread brain damage.[PDF]
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN, Bressanone); 01/2024.
Amalric, M., Kendall, N., Spelke, E. Precursory knowledge of commutative multiplication relies on geometric representations.[PDF]
Cognitive Development Society (CDS, Madison); 04/2022.
Kendall, N., Amalric, M., Spelke, E. Four-year-old children fail to identify and use teacher-led analogies in mathematics.[PDF]
Cognitive Development Society (CDS, Madison); 04/2022.
Amalric, M. & Cantlon, J. Neural maturity, entropy and variance are complementary markers of mathematics development in the human brain.
Cognitive Neuroscience society (CNS, virtual); 03/2021.
Amalric, M. & Cantlon, J. How do 3rd-grade children understand the commutative principle of multiplication?
Cognitive Development Society (CDS, Louisville); 10/2019.
Amalric, M., Al-Zaghloul, N., Cantlon, J. Thinking outside the box: children’s understanding of geometrical rules is not rooted in shapes.
Cognitive Development Society (CDS, Louisville); 10/2019.
Amalric, M., O'Donnell, A., Lussier, C., Cantlon, J. Non-symbolic exact calculation involves infero-tempoaral "Visual Number Form Areas".
Society for Neuroscience (SFN, San Diego); 11/2018.
Amalric, M., Dehaene, S. Dissociation between language- and math-responsive networks in the brain.[PDF]
Neuroscience Workshop Saclay (NeWS); 06/2017.
Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects (CAOs, Rovereto); 05/2017.
Amalric, M., Wang, L., Pica, P., Figueira, S., Sigman, M., Dehaene, S. Fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers.[PDF]
ISC Summer School on reasoning (UQAM, Montreal); 06/2016.
Association for Psychological Science (APS, Chicago); 05/2016.
Amalric, M., Piazza, M., Amadon A., Thirion, B., Dehaene, S. High-level expertise for mathematical concepts recycles lateral occipito-temporal and parietal regions for number processing. [PDF]
Neuroscience Workshop Saclay (NeWS); 01/2016.
Nijmegen Lectures; 02/2015.
Society for Neurosciences (SFN, Washington D.C.); 11/2014.