Currently teaching at the University of Toronto (Department of Psychology):
The developmental approach to the study of behaviour with reference to sensorimotor skills, cognition, socialization, language, personality, and emotional behaviour.
A critical survey of concepts, theories, and the state of research in the area of psychopathology and therapeutic methods.
Theory and research in social attachment, aggression, morality, imitation and identification, altruism, and parental discipline, with discussion of methodological issues.
The course examines human perceptual development during the first 2-3 years of life. Vision and hearing are emphasized. Some topics are: face and object recognition, infant speech perception, perceptual attunement.
This course focuses on cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in children from clinical and theoretical perspectives.
Master-level course taught at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris (Department of Cognitive Studies):
Reading, understanding, and critiquing scientific literature is a determinant skill for nearly any endeavor you will undertake in the future. In this course, we give you the basics of how to read scientific literature, as well as a chance to put these ideas into practice (students should be able to complete one small meta-analysis or systematic review) in the domain of your choice.
Undergraduate-level courses taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM; Department of Psychology):
Introduction to cognitive information processing processes in humans. Relevant phenomena related to perceptual categorization or recognition, forms of attention, memorization and memory structure, behavior programming, problem solving and reasoning. Language and visuospatial codes for cognitive processing. Animal cognition.
The objectives of this course are: To understand the conceptual and epistemological bases of the main theories relating to development at the cognitive, social and affective levels. Know the current issues in developmental psychology. Understand and be able to critically assess recent empirical work. Analysis of different theoretical conceptions of development. Advanced study of different aspects of development on a cognitive, social and emotional level. Presentation of recent trends in developmental psychology.