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I am currently Associate Professor at Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Lyon, France), working at the Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA3082).

My research interest involves visual word recognition, focusing on orthographic coding,on lexical access and on semantic memory. More specifically, I am investigating on how readers are able to access to semantic information from printed strings of letters. To do so, I am looking at different aspects of this process such as:

- How visual features are mapped onto individual letters representations?

- How orthographic representations are encoded and how they are linked to lexical representations?

- Why words are processed differently than other meaningless letter strings?

- Why do we read "SING" instead of "SIGN"?

- What is the relationship between words and concepts?

Thus, my research aims to understand the cognitive and neural processes involving during reading comprehension. I use different approaches to investigate these topics. Mainly I combine brain measures like Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) with behavioral techniques, for examining the temporal dynamic of brain activity at different processing stages in visual word recognition.