Yvan Nedelec

As a cognitive neuroscientist, I completed my PhD on temporal cognition, investigating whether duration encoding can be considered an automatic process and how prior knowledge about duration shapes temporal judgments in naturalistic contexts. More broadly, my research combines behavioural measures (inspired by psychophysics), questionnaires, and ElectroEncephaloGraphic (EEG) recordings to investigate how subjective experience relates to cognitive and neural processes. My broader scientific interests concern our subjective experience of the world. Currently, I am particularly interested in what sleep and dreams can reveal about our temporal experience, and conversely, what time perception can tell us about sleep-related mental states. Transitional states between wakefulness and sleep are especially fascinating, as they provide a rich context for studying distinctive forms of temporal phenomenology. On a more methodological level, I am interested in approaches that make cognitive neuroscience more ecological, by bringing experimental settings closer to everyday-life situations and producing findings that are more meaningful and generalizable. I joined the team as a research engineer because, during my PhD, I particularly value the collaborative dimension of scientific research. In this role, I support the team by developing tools for EEG data analysis, with the goal of making these methods accessible to researchers without advanced programming expertise.