My research focuses on the relationship between  perception and action in the human brain - and more precisely in the visual system.  

What kind of perception?

• Mainly visual perception - but also auditory perception.

What kind of action?

• Ocular saccades, these rapid eye movements we generate (3 or 4 per second) when we explore our environment, look for an object or orient our gaze towards something that suddenly appears in our visual field.

• Smooth pursuit, these continuous eye movements  we generate to track something that moves slowly in our visual field.

Perception is known to influence action, and action is known to influence perception.  Some questions on this issue are still unresolved. For example: Is size perception influenced by saccade execution ? What role does attention play in this phenomenon ?  What happens if saccades are modified by reinforcement learning? 

I test behavioural hypotheses using gaze control paradigms. In these protocols, the presentation of stimuli depends on the observer's eye movements, and sometimes occurs even before the observer has finished moving his or her eyes. This way, we can perfectly control the visual environment and study the plasticity of the visual system.

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Principales activités de recherche, sur le thème du lien entre perception et action au sein du système oculomoteur humain

• 2024-2026 : Coordinatrice du projet Idex Emergence (Liens action-perception : Influence des mouvements oculaires sur la perception de la hauteur tonale)

• 2018-2022 : Coordinatrice du projet ANR-JC AdRenf (Adaptation e(s)t Renforcement?)

• Depuis sept. 2016 : Maître de conférences à l'Institut de Psychologie - Laboratoire Vision Action Cognition (VAC) - Université Paris Cité, Boulogne-Billancourt (France)

• Jan. 2014 - juin 2016 : Post-doctorat au Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (LPP)- Paris (France)

• Sept. 2012 - nov. 2013 : Post-doctorat au laboratoire de Psychologie Générale, Gießen (Allemagne)

• Oct. 2008 - juil. 2012 : Doctorat au laboratoire URECA (actuellement SCALab), Lille (France) - supervision: Pr. L. Madelain