Just by listening, humans can determine who is talking to them, whether a window in their house is open or shut, or what their child dropped on the floor in the next room. This ability to derive information from sound is enabled by a cascade of neuronal processing stages that transform the sound waveform entering the ear into cortical representations that are presumed to make behaviorally important sound properties explicit.
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What determines what we see? A tidal wave of recent research alleges that visual experience is 'penetrated' by higher-level cognitive states such as beliefs, desires, emotions, intentions, and linguistic abilities. There is a growing consensus that such effects are ubiquitous, and even that the distinction between seeing and thinking may itself be unsustainable. I argue otherwise: There is in fact no
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2019 ‘Signals of Trust in Digitized Paintings and Texts’: ANR (€270.000)
2019 ‘Emotional displays in Ancient Régime portraits’: Fyssen Foundation (€30.000)
2018-2021 Implémentation de Nudges verts avec la Ville de Paris (projet CIFRE, Mairie de Paris - ANRT, Coralie Chevallier)
2017-2019 Emotional displays in history (IEC post doc scheme, Nicolas Baumard & Julie Grèzes)
2016-2017 Testing the argumentative theory of reasoning (Tremplin - ERC grant from the ANR, Hugo Mercier)
Teaching
Psychology and Public Policies, Sciences Po & the Cogmaster (starting autumn 2017)
Collaborations with economists on RCTs
Over the last twenty years, these two perspectives have developed relatively independently from each other. On the one hand, cognitive psychology studies the workings of mechanisms that are dedicated to the social world: communication, cooperation, political attitudes, moral judgments, social motivation, cultural transmission, reputation, etc. On the other hand, evolutionary biology investigates the function of these mechanisms: Why are humans both altruistic and selfish? How can communication develop if cheating and manipulation are possible? Are humans specifically adapted to culture?
