Author Nicolas Claidière

Yousri Marzouki

Yousri Marzouki, Ph.D, is an associate Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France) where he teaches cognitive psychology and statistical modeling. After his post-doc training at Tufts University where he studied cognitive neuroscience of visual attention, he is currently conducting research at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (CNRS) focusing on the relationship between emotion, attention and consciousness.

Nicolas Claidière

Nicolas Claidière is a French cognitive scientist at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive in Marseille (France). His research aims at getting a better understanding of the origins of human culture and of the process through which it evolves. Using experiments that simulate cultural evolution, his research compares humans and non-human primate's capacity for cultural transmission to identify the sources of human uniqueness.

Pascal Boyer

Pascal Boyer is Henry Luce Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and a Director of Research at CNRS. His research is aimed at describing neuro-cognitive systems that [a] are part of the normal make-up of human minds as a result of evolution by natural selection and [b] support the acquisition of cultural knowledge, concepts and norms. A good part of this research consists in experimental studies of adults and young children in natural and lab contexts. His earlier work focused on the ways in which human cognition makes certain kinds of religious representations culturally successful.

December, 2014