Diane Rekow

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience

Postdoc fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

visual cognition - olfaction - cognitive & neural development

Research: Multisensory interactions in visual cognition in the (developing) human brain

Disciplines: Psychology - Neuroscience           Methods: EEG (frequency-tagging), Behavior

Current Affiliation


Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology

Universität Hamburg, Germany

PI: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder

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Collaborations

DOCC's Babylab, Benoist Schaal & Arnaud Leleu

Face Categorization Lab, Bruno Rossion

CPP-Lab, Olivier Collignon

LuLABy, Adelaïde de Heering

Past Affiliation


2017-2023

Development of Olfactory Communication 

& Cognition Lab

Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation

Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France



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Bachelor 2012: in English culture and Linguistics: Université Lumière Lyon 2

Bachelor 2015: in Psychology: Université Paris 8


Master's Degree 2017: Ethology (Université Rennes 1), Behavioral Sciences and Neuroscience (Institute of fundamental and applied Sciences of Caen University).

PhD 2020: When your nose knows what you see. Multisensory development of visual categorization: Evidence from odor-driven face categorization in the human brain.

Research interests: The development of multisensory perception in the brain 

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Publications

PDF are provided for all paywall articles.

2024

Preprint: Cecchetto, C.*, Leleu, A.*, Calce, R. P., Arnhardt, S., Parma, V., de Groot, J. H. B., … , Rekow, D.*, Dal Bò, E.*. Consistent social odor representation across seven languages:  the Social Odor Scale translation and validation. OSF Preprints, https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/xwgrf *equal contributions 

2023

Preprint: Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Kiseleva, A., Rossion, B., Durand, K., Schaal, B. & Leleu, A. Olfactory-to-visual facilitation in the infant brain declines gradually from 4 to 12 months. doi: 10.1101/2023.09.08.556823 in revision

Book: B. Schaal, D. Rekow, M. Keller & F. Damon (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 15. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-35159-4 


13. Calce, R. P., Rekow, D., Barbero, F. M., Kiseleva, A., Talwar, S., Leleu, A., & Collignon, O. Voice Categorization in the 4-month-old human brain. Current Biology. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.042     PDF 

12. Rekow, D., & Leleu, A. (2023). Tips from the Nose : Odor-Driven Visual Categorization in the Developing Human Brain. In B. Schaal, D. Rekow, M. Keller & F. Damon (Eds.), Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 15 (p. 361‑395). Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-35159-4_18          PDF

11. Baudouin, J.-Y., Poncet, F., Polinori, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F., Leleu, A., Faivre, L., & Baltenneck, N. Task-related modulations of facial expression processing: an FPVS-EEG study. Emotion, doi: 10.1037/emo0001223 PDF

2022

Preregisted report: Social Odor Scale validation in multiple languages https://osf.io/p82uc 

10. Poncet, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F., Dzhelyova, M. P., Schaal, B., Durand, K. Faivre, L., Rossion, B. & Baudouin, J.-Y. (2022) A neural marker of rapid discrimination of facial expression in 3.5- and 7-month-old infants. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16:901013. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.901013

9. Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Durand, K., & Leleu, A. (2022) Smell what you hardly see: Odors assist categorization in the human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 255, 119181; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119181. [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2020]     PDF   Preprint: 10.1101/2021.02.19.431826

8. Rekow, D., Baudouin,  J.-Y., Brochard, R., Rossion, B. & Leleu, A. (2022) Rapid neural categorization of facelike objects predicts the perceptual awareness of a face (face pareidolia). Cognition, 222:105016. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105016. [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2020]   PDF    Preprint: 10.1101/2021.02.19.431826 

7. Leleu A. & Rekow, D. L’odeur maternelle aide le cerveau du nourrisson à catégoriser des objets ressemblant à des visages. Médecine/Sciences, 38(6-7), 541-544; doi: 10.1051/medsci/2022067     PDF (FR)

2021

6. Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Poncet, F., Damon, F., Durand, K., Schaal, B., Rossion, B. & Leleu, A. (2021). Odor-driven face-like categorization in the human infant brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(21) e2014979118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014979118 [Q1 Multiplidisciplinary – SJR 2019]   PDF

5. Poncet, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F., Durand, K., Schaal, B. & Baudouin, J.-Y. Odor-evoked hedonic contexts influence the discrimination of facial expressions in the human brain. Biological Psychology, 158, 0301-0511. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.108005 [Q1 Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology – SJR 2019]    PDF

2020

Thesis: Rekow, D. When your nose knows what you see. Multisensory development of visual categorization: Evidence from odor-driven face categorization in the human brain. Psychology and behavior. Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2020. English. tel-03112997. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14298.98249     PDF

4. Rekow, D., Leleu, A., Poncet, F., Damon, F., Rossion, B, Durand, K., Schaal, B., & Baudouin,  J.-Y. Categorization of objects and faces in the infant brain and its sensitivity to maternal odor: further evidence for the role of intersensory congruency in perceptual development. Cognitive Development, 55, 100930. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100930  [Q1 Developmental and Educational Psychology – SJR 2018]    PDF

3. Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Rossion, B. & A. Leleu. An ecological measure of rapid and automatic face-sex categorization. Cortex, 127, 150-161. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.007 [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2018]    PDF

2. Damon, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Poncet, F. & J.-Y. Baudouin. Expertise for conspecific face individuation in the human brain. NeuroImage, 204, 116218. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116218 [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2018]    PDF

1. Leleu, A.*, Rekow, D.*, Poncet, F.*, Schaal, B., Durand, K., Rossion, B., & J.-Y.  Baudouin. Maternal odor shapes rapid face categorization in the infant brain. Developmental Science, 23(2), e12877. doi:10.1111/desc.12877 [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2018] *equal contributions    PDF

Public outreach & dissemination - since 2020

I have organized and animated many science events and short workshops/demos for a young audience (10-18 yo) and the general public.


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