UMR5229
(formerly CNC for the centre for cognitive neuroscience )
Director : Angela Sirigu
Vice-Director : Leon Tremblay
UMR5229 is a research laboratory dedicated to the cerebral mechanisms of cognition and its disorders. It hosts several groups of scientists interested in topics such as perception, motor plasticity, attention, decision making, motivation and social cognition. The expertise of its members is decisively multidisciplinary, and includes physiology and psychology, as well as mathematics, economics and clinical disciplines such as neurology and psychiatry. Our research makes use of experimental models, behavioural analysis and functional neuroimaging, and the CNC tries to promote strong interactions between basic and clinical approaches in the hope of advancing our understanding of diseases such as Parkinson’s, schizophrenia or autism and in order to help in the development of novel therapies for the treatment of sensorimotor and cognitive handicaps.
UMR5304
(formerly L2C2 for Laboratory on the Brain, Language and Cognition)
Director : Tatjana Nazir
Vice-Director : Anne Reboul
UMR5304 is an interdisciplinary laboratory that gathers the expertise of researchers in Life Sciences (cognitive psychology, neurosciences) and medicine (child psychiatry, neuropediatric) with the expertise of researchers in Human and Social Sciences (computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, philosophy) to study the nature and specificity of the human mind. The laboratory is affiliated with the University Lyon 1 (UCBL 1) and to the INSB and INSHS at CNRS. It relies on the experience of more than ten years of fruitful interactions and interdisciplinary research and promotes empirical research project, based on robust theoretical approaches, which go beyond disciplinary borders.
To reinforce its interdisciplinary research strategy, UMR 5304 has a single team, with a project-based organization that allows flexible participation of members from different fields on a common theme. The main research topics can be divided into four main topics:
- Language and sensorimotor processes
- Human communication
- Reasoning
- Language acquisition