Neuroeducation – LaPsyDÉ (UMR CNRS 8240)

Neuroeducation is an emerging field of fundamental and applied research at the interface of neurosciences and educational sciences. At the fundamental level, it aims to identify the laws of the learning brain and at the applied level, to assess the effect of pedagogical interventions on the learning gains at the cognitive level and the neuroplastic mechanisms that support such learning gains. These are the goals of the research projects conducted by the Laboratory for the Study of Child Development and Education (LaPsyDÉ) from the Institute of Psychology, a CNRS lab at the interface of Social and Human Sciences and Biological sciences. The LaPsyDÉ is known at the national and international levels to combined behavioral and neuroimaging methods for testing a new model of cognitive development and learning at school in which executive functions and inhibitory control in particular play a central role.