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On Saturday afternoon, August 28, 2021, at the initiative of the CNRS, about thirty researchers embarked on the lake of the Parc de la Tête d'Or to present their research to the general public.

Two CRNL researchers (Nadine Ravel and Maud Beaudoin) were able to show their work to a few privileged people during a boat trip!

A great experience to make our work accessible!

© CNRS Rhône Auvergne

The 2021 doctoral contract competition of the NSCo Doctoral School of the University of Lyon offers the possibility to obtain ministerial thesis grants ensuring a 3-year work contract. This year, five grants were open for Lyon1 and two for Lyon2.

This article by Romain QUENTIN et al, published in npj Science of Learning, brings together the COPHY, MEMO and IMPACT teams of the CRNL, and shows "that statistical learning can be acquired during practice, whereas more complex rule learning requires short breaks".

Innovation competitions: 3 winners 2021 from the CRNL boosted by Pulsalys in the i-PhD and i-Lab categories:

Audrey Vialatte (TRAJECTOIRES CRNL), i-PhD winner, leader of the LudiSymboles project

Silvia Macchione (IMPACT CRNL), i-PhD winner, leader of the Face à Main project

Jordan Guyon, i-Lab winner, CEO of Gaoma Therapeutics (the startup  is based on the results of TIGER CRNL)

Aurélie BIDET-CAULET (PAM CRNL), co-signs this article recently published in Neuron. They “argue that gender bias is not a single problem but manifests as collection of distinct issues that impact researchers' lives. They dientangle these facets and propose concrte solutions that can be adpted by individuals, academic institutions, and society“.

Avec le biologiste Nicolas Mathevon, nous vous invitons à ouvrir grands les oreilles. Nous partons écouter la faune de contrées lointaines.

Illustration du livre de Nicolas Mathevon et de Marc Giraud, "Les animaux parlent: Sachons les écouter". (Humensciences Editions) © Getty

A French study conducted over a year ago is providing a better understanding of how olfactory disorders related to Covid-19 manifest themselves. The aim is to improve management and accelerate the recovery of patients' sensory capacity.

They have passed the external Inserm and CNRS research fellowships and will respectively join the EDUWELL team for Romain Quentin, PSYR2 for Jacqueline Scholl and WAKING for Audrey Hay.

We welcome them and congratulate them!

Today, the portrait of Audrey Hay, CR CNRS who joins the WAKING CRNL team. The last portraits will follow!

Following the implementation within Inserm of the "Plan for professional equality between women and men", Inserm wanted to highlight, through video testimonies, the women and men who make and are Inserm at the local level.



The 3rd episode is the testimony of Gaëtan AMORIM, Research Technician at the GenCyTi CRNL platform.

They have passed the external Inserm and CNRS research fellowships and will respectively join the EDUWELL team for Romain Quentin, PSYR2 for Jacqueline Scholl and WAKING for Audrey Hay.

We welcome them and congratulate them!

Today, the portrait of Romain Quentin, CR Inserm who joins the EDUWELL CRNL team. The other portraits will follow!

Moustafa Bensafi (NEUROPOP CRNL) was invited on monday june 7th on the radio program "La Méthode Scientifique" on France Culture to speak about smell and taste.

Crédits photos: twomeows - Getty

"The NeuroImaging for Drug Discovery (NI2D) project, selected by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and led by the CRNL and the company Theranexus, aims to set up a joint pharmacology and neuroimaging team covering PET, MRI and high resolution ultrasound."

Read the UCBL 2020 activity report (Partnerships, page 24)

Simon Thibault, PhD student at IMPACT CRNL, supervised by Claudio Brozzoli (IMPACT CRNL) and Alice Roy (DDL), in collaboration with Véronique Boulenger (DDL), received this year's Society for Neural Control of Movement (NCM) award.

At the conference organised by NCM, Simon presented some of the results of his thesis project: through behavioural and functional neuroimaging studies, Simon investigated the links between language syntax and tool use, testing the hypothesis that a common function serves both skills.

A new article of Hélène Bastuji and her colleagues (NEUROPAIN CRNL) in the Journal of Neuroscience of april 2021.

doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2935-20.2021

Le CRNL a la tristesse de vous annoncer le décès de Jean-Luc Charieau qui avait rejoint l'équipe de zootechnie en février 2020.

Montessori education is becoming increasingly popular in many preschools in France and around the world. However, studies evaluating its effects on early childhood development are rare. In an article published in the journal Child Development, scientists from EDUWELL CRNL and TRAJECTOIRES CRNL describe the results of the first randomized controlled study comparing the Montessori method to conventional teaching in a French public preschool.

https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13575

An article published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, resulting from a successful collaboration between Eric FAKRA (PSYR2 CRNL) with Magali COMTE, and the Adult Psychiatry Unit of the Centre Hospitalier Guillaume Régnier in Rennes.

An unpublished issue of «The Extraordinary Powers of the Human Body», presented by Adriana Karembeu and Michel Cymes and broadcast on France 2 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 at 21pm, tries to unravel the mysteries of taste and smell, with Moustafa Bensafi, Marylou Mantel, Camille Ferdenzi and Stéphane Richard (NEUROPOP CRNL).

An new article of MEMO CRNL in Human Brain Mapping

Takács
A, Kóbor A, Kardos Z, et al. Neurophysiological and functional neuroanatomical coding of statistical and deterministic rule information during sequence learning. Hum Brain Mapp. 2021;1–20.

https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25427

Sylvie Mazoyer and Christelle Daudé, your equality correspondents, offer you a short video (1'28") which summarises their missions for the Rhône Alpes delegation of CNRS.

The work of Anne Auguste is part of a project led by Alexandra Veyrac CMO CRNL on the role of new neurons in memory processes.



The observatory has produced a video of her thesis work: Anne Auguste | Observatoire B2V des Mémoires (observatoireb2vdesmemoires.fr)



If, like her, you want to do a thesis on memory, you have until 20 May to apply on the site!

https://www.observatoireb2vdesmemoires.fr/en/en-action/bourse-doctorale-candidature

A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space

A book edited by Frédérique de Vignemont, Andrea Serino, Hong Yu Wong, and Alessandro Farnè (IMPACT CRNL), Oxford University Press - Academic, April 1st, 2021, 352 pages, ISBN: 9780198851738.

An article of MEMO CRNL in Neuropsychologia

Kóbor A, Kardos Z, Horváth K, Janacsek K, Takács A, Csépe V, Nemeth D. Implicit anticipation of probabilistic regularities: Larger CNV emerges for unpredictable events. Neuropsychologia, Volume 156, 18 June 2021, 107826.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107826

Top 100 in Neuroscience is a collection of Scientific Reports.

This collection highlights their most downloaded neuroscience papers published in 2020. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers showcase valuable research from an international community.

In the collection of 31 March 2021, the publication of MEMO CRNL about subjective sleep has the rank 34 of 1750 !