Invited conferences
Cochet, H. (2022, January). Gestures in humans, chimpanzees and robots: An attempt to unravel conceptual diversity and implicit assumptions. i-Gesto online series conferences.
Cochet, H. (2017, April). Manipulating objects or communicating through gestures: Considering manual asymmetries within a complex system. Handedness facts: From Evolution to Neurosciences, Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy.
Cochet, H. (2015, May). La communication gestuelle : Un indice du développement langagier et de la spécialisation hémisphérique [Gestural communication: An index of language development and hemispheric specialization]. Institute of Movement Sciences – UMR 728, Marseille, France.
Cochet, H. (2015, February). Développement de la communication gestuelle : Quelle main, quelle fonction et quel rôle dans l’acquisition du langage ? [Development of gestural communication: Which hand, which function and which role in language acquisition?]. Psychology of Motor and Linguistic Actions (PALM), University of Caen Basse-Normandie.
Cochet, H. (2014, July). Development and evolution of communication: Focusing on gestures and manual asymmetries. Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo) - UMR 5549, University of Toulouse 3.
Cochet, H. (2014, June). Développement de la communication : l’intérêt d’étudier l’asymétrie des gestes communicatifs [Development of communication: Why studying the asymmetry of communicative gestures?]. Research Unit in Cognitive and Affective Sciences (URECA), University of Lilles 3, France.
Cochet, H. (2014, April). Développement de la préférence manuelle : Activités de manipulation d’objets vs. gestes communicatifs [Development of hand preference: Manipulative activities vs. communicative gestures]. Neurofunctional Imaging Group - UMR 5296, University of Bordeaux 2, France.
Cochet, H. (2013, November). Rethinking manual asymmetries: tool-use, gestural communication and goal-directedness. Workshop "Handedness and Language", NIAS, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Cochet, H. (2013, June). Function and laterality of gestures: Ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, United-Kingdom.
Cochet, H. (2012, January). Développement de la communication et spécialisation hémisphérique : relation entre l'asymétrie de différents gestes communicatifs et l'acquisition du langage [Development of communication and hemispheric specialisation: relationship between the asymmetry of different communicative gestures and language acquisition]. Speech and Language Laboratory - UMR 7309, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Cochet, H. (2010, November). Asymétrie des gestes communicatifs et développement du langage [Asymmetry of communicative gestures and language development]. Laboratory of Language Development and Disabilities, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Presentations in international congresses
Belhassein, K., Cochet, H., & Guidetti, M. (2019, August). From children to robots: Development of multimodal communication for joint activities. Oral presentation at the 19th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Athens, Greece.
Belhassein, K., Cochet, H., Clodic, A., Guidetti, M., & Alami, R. (2019, July). From Children to Robots: How the parallel with developmental psychology can improve human-robot joint activities. Graphic presentation at Joint Action Meeting (JAM), Genoa, Italy.
Bourjade, M., Cochet, H., & Molesti, S. (2016, July). Gesture production in monkeys, apes and pre-linguistic children: The interplay between development and evolution. Oral presentation at the 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Paris, France.
Cochet, H. (2016, July). Can hand preference for gestures speak for the left hemisphere? Oral presentation at the 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Paris, France.
Cochet, H., & Byrne, R. W. (2016, March). Relationship between nonverbal social skills and language development: Communicative gestures and attentional skills. Evolang conference. University of Southern Mississippi, New Orleans (LA), USA.
Cochet, H. (2015, September). Hand preference for symbolic gestures and pointing gestures: Clues toward the understanding of language development. Protolang conference, Symposium on ontogeny and language evolution. Roma Tre University, Italy.
Cochet, H. (2015, September). Informing through pointing: Development of communication and social understanding in children. Third European Symposium on Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Cochet, H., Jover, M, & Vauclair, J. (2014, July). Development of manual asymmetries and language acquisition: When gestures come into play. Oral presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.
Vauclair, J., & Cochet, H. (2013, March). Laterality for gestures and language development. Graphic presentation at the 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain.
Cochet, H., & Byrne, R. W. (2013, February). Developmental and evolutionary origins of human handedness. Graphic presentation at the Tarragona Laterality Conference, Tarragona, Spain.
Meguerditchian, A., Cochet, H., Hopkins, W. D., & Vauclair, J. (2012, July). Gestural communication, lateralization and hemispheric specialization for language: a comparative approach between human and non-human primates. Oral presentation at 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Lund, Sweden.
Cochet, H., & Vauclair, J. (2011, August). Hand use for gestural communication in the course of speech development. Oral presentation at the 15th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Bergen, Norway.
Cochet, H., & Vauclair, J. (2011, June). Hand preference for gestural communication and the question of language origins. Oral presentation at the 23rd annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Montpellier, France.
Cochet, H., & Vauclair, J. (2010, July). Patterns of handedness for communicative gestures in human children. Graphic presentation presented at the 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
Cochet, H., & Vauclair, J. (2010, April). Gestural communication in human children: Ontogenetic perspective in favour of the gestural hypothesis of language origin. Graphic presentation presented at the Evolang 8th Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Cochet, H., & Vauclair, J. (2009, July). Relationship between language development and laterality for pointing gestures in toddlers. Graphic presentation presented at the international conference Multimod, Toulouse, France.
Presentations in national congresses
Bessolles, M., Dodane, C., & Cochet H. (2022). Discours adressés au jeune enfant et au sujet âgé : Comparaison des effets sur le développement de la fonction symbolique. Communication affichée au colloque BECO (Bébé et petite Enfance en COntexte), Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.
Cochet, H. (2013, December). Développement et évolution du langage: Fonction et latéralité des gestes communicatifs [Development and evolution of language: Fonction and laterality of communicative gestures]. Octogone seminar, University of Toulouse II, France.
Meguerditchian, A., Cochet, H., Hopkins, W. D., & Vauclair J. (2013, January). Communication, manipulation, latéralité et spécialisation hémisphérique cérébrale: approche comparative entre primates humains et non humains [Communication, manipulation, laterality and hemispheric specialization: comparative approach between human and non-human primates]. Oral presentation at the 1838th meeting of the Society of Anthropology of Paris, Paris, France.
Cochet, H. (2009, June). Forme, fonction et latéralité des gestes spontanés de pointage produits par de jeunes enfants [Form, function and laterality of spontaneous pointing gestures produced by young children]. Graphic presentation presented at the annual meeting of the French Society of Psychology, Toulouse, France.