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La Simplexité
(in french only)

« La simplexité, telle que je l'entends, est l'ensemble des solutions trouvées par les organismes vivants pour que, malgré la complexité des processus naturels, le cerveau puisse préparer l'acte et en projeter les conséquences. Ces solutions sont des principes simplificateurs qui permettent de traiter des informations ou des situations, en tenant compte de l'expérience passée et en anticipant l'avenir. Ce ne sont ni des caricatures, ni des raccourcis ou des résumés. Ce sont de nouvelles façons de poser les problèmes, parfois au prix de quelques détours, pour arriver à des actions plus rapides, plus élégantes, plus efficaces. » (A. B.)

Comme le démontre Alain Berthoz dans ce livre profondément original, faire simple n'est jamais facile ; cela demande d'inhiber, de sélectionner, de lier, d'imaginer pour pouvoir ensuite agir au mieux.

Et si, à notre tour, nous nous inspirions du vivant pour traiter la complexité qui nous entoure ?

 

Bessière P., Laugier C., Siegwart R. (2008)
Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems, 378

Neurobiology of "Umwelt"
How Living Beings Perceive the World
Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences
Berthoz, Alain; Christen, Yves (Eds.) 2009, XII, 158 p. 22 illus.,
ISBN: 978-3-540-85896-6

Phenomenology and Physiology of Action - Phénoménologie et physiologie de l'action

Under the direction of Alain Berthoz et Jean-Luc Petit - Eds. O. Jacob (Septembre 2006)

Philosophers and scientists are two groups that tend to ignore one another, each pursuing its own work as if the other did not exist — though they may, in fact, be working on the same subjects (space, time, movement, perception, etc.). For once, a scientist and a philosopher have rallied their efforts in an effort to understand how our brain interacts with the world. Does the brain behave as a calculator, combining sense data before deciding how to act? Or does it behave as an emulator endowed with innate models of the world, which it corrects according to the results of experiences obtained by the senses?

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Head direction cells and the neural mechanisms of spatial orientation

Edited by Sidney I. Wiener et Jeffrey S. Taube (July 2005)

Head direction cells -- neurons that fire only when an animal orients its head in a certain direction -- are found in several different brain areas, with different neurons selective for different head orientations; they are influenced by landmarks as well as motor and vestibular information concerning how the head moves through space. These properties suggest that head direction cells play an important role in determining orientation in space and in navigation [...]

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The Spaces of Man - Les Espaces de l'homme

Under the direction of Alain Berthoz et Roland Recht - Eds. O. Jacob (Juin 2005)

Quels rapports l'homme entretient-il avec ses espaces ? Autour de cette question, un symposium du Collège de France a réuni des mathématiciens et des physiciens, des physiologistes et des psychologues, des anthropologues et des géographes, des historiens de l'art et de la religion, des architectes, un homme de théâtre et un astronaute [...]

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Autism - L' Autisme - De la recherche à la pratique

Publication des actes du Congrès tenu au Collège de France sur l'autisme. Eds. O. Jacob (Mai 2005)

L'autisme touche des dizaines de milliers de personnes en France. Ce livre témoigne des progrès accomplis dans la compréhension des aspects génétiques, neurologiques et cognitifs de cette maladie, et des handicaps qu'elle entraîne. La grande diversité de ses symptômes, notamment les troubles de la communication et de la socialisation, rend difficiles son diagnostic et son traitement. Se pose également le problème de la prise en charge des enfants et du soutien de leur famille dans une société mal préparée à les accueillir [...]

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The Empathie - L'Empathie

Under the direction of d'Alain Berthoz et Gérard Jorland - Eds. O. Jacob (Oct. 2004)

Empathy is the ability to put oneself in the position of others, and thus to understand and know them. Ever since Darwin, empathy has been regarded as the basis of all human social behaviour, and most notably of ethics. Some major psychological disorders - autism, for example - can be described as the inability to empathise. Certain types of perverse behaviour, such as the torture of defenceless victims, have been explained as distortions of empathy. This book offers an overview of studies on empathy for the past 250 years. It also describes the latest research on the subject in a variety of fields: cognitive psychology, philosophy, ethology and ethics. Alain Berthoz is a professor at the Collège de France and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Le Sens du mouvement and La Décison, both published by Editions Odile Jacob. Gérard Jorland is a director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the author of Les Paradoxes du capital (Editions Odile Jacob) and La Science dans la philosophie. [...]

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The Decision - La Décision

Alain Berthoz - Eds. O. Jacob (Jan. 2003)

In this work, Alain Berthoz examines the psychology of decision-making, based on his conception of the human brain not as a calculator or compiler but as a simulator of action. Instead of considering the process of decision-making as a rational one, based on logical tools, he regards it as the fundamental property of the nervous system, its goal being to prepare, command and control actions and shows that to decide is to predict. Alain Berthoz teaches physiology of action and perception at the Collège de France [...]

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Leçons sur le corps, le cerveau et l'esprit

Sous la direction d'Alain Berthoz - Eds. O. Jacob (Sep. 1999)

Des neuropharmacologues (Jean-Pierre Changeux, Jacques Glowinski), des physiologues (Claude Bernard, Étienne Jules Marey, Jean Nageotte, Alfred Fessard, Yves Laporte, Alain Berthoz), des psychologues (Pierre Janet, Henri Wallon, Julian de Ajuriaguerra) œuvrent depuis deux siècles au Collège de France à l'élucidation de ce mystère de tous les mystères : comment fonctionne notre cerveau [...]

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The Sense of Motion - Le Sens du mouvement

Alain Berthoz - Eds. O. Jacob (Fév. 1997)

This book's aim is to show - as philosophers such as Sartre or Merleau-Ponty believed - that we think with our whole bodies.To the five traditional senses - sight, smell, taste, hearing and touching - Alain Berthoz adds a sixth one : kinesthesia or the sense of movement. We have forgotten it because it is not so obvious, kinesthetic captors are spread throughout the body and not concentrated in one specific organ. An yet, there is a real pleasure in movement, for the one moving and the one witnessing it, just as there is pleasure in the other senses.For there is no movement without thought. We make a decision to walk, to run, to jump or to dance, with the intention of moving from one place to another. We are thus capable of evaluating a distance, programming the trajectory and this with extreme speed, like when we are racing down a ski slope.The sense of movement obliges us to reconsider our conception of the brain. [...]

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Publications in the reviews
2012
  • Moulin-Frier C., Laurent R., Bessière P ., Schwartz J.-L., Diard J. (2012) Adverse conditions improve distinguishability of auditory, motor and percep-tuo-motor theories of speech perception: an exploratory Bayesian modeling study, Language and Cognitive Processes.
  • Barnett-Cowan M., Meilinger T., Vidal M. , Teufel H. and Bülthoff H.H. (2012) « MPI CyberMotion Simulator: Implementation of a novel motion simulator to investigate path integration in three dimensions », Journal of Visualized Experiments (sous-presse)

2011
  • Gilet E., Diard J., Bessiere P . (2011) Bayesian Action-Perception Computational Model: Interaction of Production and Recognition of Cursive Letters, PLoS ONE 6, 6 e20387.
  • Boë L.-J., Schwartz J.-L., Granat J., Heim J.-L., Serrurier A., Badin P., Captier G., Bessière P. (2011) L'émergence de la parole:Aspects historiques et épistémologiques d'une nouvelle réarticulation, Faits de Langues 37, 15-67.
  • Girardeau G., Zugaro M.B. (2011) Hippocampal ripples and memory consolidation. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, doi:10.1016/j.conb.02.005.
  • Vidal M. and Mossio M.M. (2011) « Can a 50 cents reward really choke working memory maintenance process? », Consciousness and Cognition , 20 (2): 363-365.
  • Poirel N., Vidal M. , Pineau A., Lanoé C., Leroux G., Lubin A., Turbelin M.R., Berthoz A. and Houdé O. (2011) « Evidence of different developmental trajectories for length estimation according to egocentric and allocentric viewpoints in children and adults », Experimental Psychology , 58 (2):142-146.
  • Coninx, A., Bonneau, G.P., Droulez, J. (2011) Visualization of uncertain scalar data fields using color scales and perceptually adapted noise. Conference paper APGV, August 2011.
  • N'Guyen, S., Droulez, J. & Berthoz., A. (2011) A probabilistic model of equilibrium perception. 14th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots, Paris , sept. 2011.

2010
  • Diard J., Gilet E., Simonin E., Bessiere P. (2010) Incremental learning of Bayesian sensorimotor models: from low-level behaviours to large-scale structure of the environment, Connection Science 22, 4 (2010) 291-312.
  • Colas F., Diard J., Bessiere P. (2010) Common bayesian models for common cognitive issues, Acta Biotheoretica 58, 2-3 191-216.
  • Houillon A., Bessière P., Droulez J. (2010) The probabilistic cell: implementation of a probabilistic inference by the biochemical mechanisms of phototransduction. Acta Biotheoretica 58, 2-3 103-120
  • David R., Droulez J., Allain R., Berthoz A., Janvier, R. & Bennequin, D. (2010) Motion from the past. A new method to infer vestibular capacities of extinct species. C.R. Palevol, 9 (6-7): 397-410.
  • Benchenane K., Peyrache A., Khamassi M., Tierney P.L., Gioanni Y., Battaglia F.P., Wiener S.I. (2010) Coherent theta oscillations and reorganization of spike timing in the hippocampal- prefrontal network upon learning. Neuron. Jun 24;66(6):921-36
  • Bullens J, Iglói K, Berthoz A, Postma A, Rondi-Reig L. (2010) Developmental time course of the acquisition of sequential egocentric and allocentric navigation strategies. J Exp Child Psychol. Nov;107(3):337-50.
  • Capelli A, Berthoz A, Vidal M. (2010) Estimating the time-to-passage of visual self-motion: Is the second order motion information processed? Vision Res. Apr 21;50(9):914-23.
  • Chaperon Th, Droulez J & Thibault G. (2010) A probabilistic approach to camera pose and calibration from a small set of point and line correspondences. Conference paper, IEEE 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling, Kyoto, oct. 2009.
  • Foubert L, Bennequin D, Thomas MA., Droulez J. & Milleret C. (2010): Interhemispheric synchrony in visual cortex and abnormal postnatal visual experience. Frontiers in Bioscience. 15:681-707
  • Galati G, Pelle G, Berthoz A, Committeri G. (2010) Multiple reference frames used by the human brain for spatial perception and memory. Exp Brain Res. 2010 Feb 26.
  • Iglói K, Doeller CF, Berthoz A, Rondi-Reig L, Burgess N. (2010) Lateralized human hippocampal activity predicts navigation based on sequence or place memory. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Jul 26.
  • Landgraf S, Krebs MO , Olié JP, Committeri G, van der Meer E, Berthoz A, Amado I. : (2010) Real world referencing and schizophrenia: Are we experiencing the same reality? Neuropsychologia. Jun 9.
  • Lebranchu P, Bastin J, Pelegrini-Issac M, Lehericy S, Berthoz A, Orban GA. : (2010) Retinotopic Coding of Extraretinal Pursuit Signals in Early Visual Cortex. Cereb Cortex. Jan 4.
  • Peyrache A, Benchenane K, Khamassi M, Wiener SI, Battaglia FP. (2010) Sequential reinstatement of neocortical activity during slow oscillations depends on cells' global activity. Front Syst Neurosci. Jan 3:18 .
  • Piccardi L, Berthoz A, Baulac M, Denos M, Dupont S, Samson S, Guariglia C.: (2010) Different spatial memory systems are involved in small- and large-scale environments: evidence from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Exp Brain Res. May 6.
  • Thirioux B, Mercier MR, Jorland G, Berthoz A, Blanke O. (2010) Mental imagery of self-location during spontaneous and active self-other interactions: an electrical neuroimaging study. J Neurosci. : 30(21):7202-14.
  • Vidal M. and H. H. Bülthoff (2010) Storing upright turns: How visual and vestibular cues interact during the encoding and recalling process. Exp. Brain Res. 200(1):37-49
  • Waisblat V, Mercier FJ, Langholz B, Berthoz A, Cavagna P, Benhamou D. (2010) Effect of rocking motion on labor pain before epidural catheter insertion in the sitting position.] Ann Fr Anesth Reanim. Jul 13.

2009
  • Bennequin D, Fuchs R, Berthoz A., Flash T. (2009) Movement timing and invariance arise from several geometries. PLoS Comput Biol. Jul;5(7):e1000426.
  • Boucheny C., Bonneau G.P., Droulez J., Thibault G., Ploix S. (2009)  A Perceptive Evaluation of Volume Rendering Techniques. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP); Vol.5 (4)-art. 23.
  • Colas F, Flacher F, Tanner T, Bessière P & Girard B. (2009) Bayesian models of eye movement selection with retinotopic maps. Biological Cybernetics ;100(3) :203-214.
  • Diard J, Panagiotaki P, Berthoz A. (2009) Biomimetic Bayesian models of navigation: How are environment geometry-based and landmark-based strategies articulated in humans? In Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM)
  • Girardeau G. , Benchenane K., Wiener S.I. , Buzsáki G., Zugaro M.B. (2009) Selective suppression of hippocampal ripples impairs spatial memory. Nat Neurosci. 12(10):1222-3.
  • Houillon, A., Bessière, P. & Droulez, J. (2009) Implementation of a Bayesian filter in a photoreceptor cell. Résumé référencé Cosyne.
  • HerwikS., Kisban S., Aarts A.A.A., Seidl K. , Girardeau G., Benchenane K., Zugaro M.B., Wiener S.I., Paul O., Neves H.P., Ruther P. (2009) Fabrication technology for silicon-based microprobe arrays used in acute and sub-chronic neural recording. J. Micromech. Microeng. 19:074008.
  • Iglói K, Zaoui M, Berthoz A., Rondi-Reig L. (2009) Sequential egocentric strategy is acquired as early as allocentric strategy: Parallel acquisition of these two navigation strategies. Hippocampus. 19(12):1199-211.
  • Jerbi K, Freyermuth S, Minotti L, Kahane P, Berthoz A., Lachaux JP. (2009) Watching brain TV and playing brain ball exploring novel BCI strategies using real-time analysis of human intracranial data. Int Rev Neurobiol.;86:159-68.
  • Jerbi K., Freyermuth S., Dalal S., Kahane P., Bertrand O., Berthoz A., Lachaux J.P. (2009) Saccade related gamma-band activity in intracerebral EEG : Dissociating neural from ocular muscle activity. Brain Topogr.; 22(1) :18-23.
  • Jerbi K., Ossandón T., Hamamé C.M., Senova S., Dalal S.S., Jung J., Minotti L., Bertrand O., Berthoz A., Kahane P, Lachaux JP. (2009) Task-related gamma-band dynamics from an intracerebral perspective: review and implications for surface EEG and MEG. Hum Brain Mapp.; 30(6) :1758-71.
  • Lafon M, Vidal M, Berthoz A. (2009) Selective influence of prior map knowledge on kinesthetic learning of a locomotor path. Exp Brain Res.;194(4) :541-52. Epub 2009 Feb 20.
  • Maoz U, Berthoz A., Flash T. (2009) Complex unconstrained three-dimensional hand movement and constant equi-affine speed. J Neurophysiol.; 101(2) :1002-15.
  • Peyrache A., Khamassi M., Benchenane K., Wiener S.I. , Battaglia F.P. (2009) Replay of rule-learning related neural patterns in the prefrontal cortex during sleep. Nat Neurosci. 12(7):919-26.
  • Ramadan W., Eschenko O., Sara S.J. (2009) Hippocampal sharp wave/ripples during sleep for consolidation of associative memory. PLoS One. Aug 20;4(8):e6697.
  • Rochefort NL, Buzás P, Quenech'du N, Koza A, Eysel UT, Milleret C, Kisvárday ZF. (2009) Functional Selectivity of Interhemispheric Connections in Cat Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, , 19: 2451-2465.
  • Rousié DL, Deroubaix JP, Joly O, Baudrillard JC, Berthoz A. (2009) Abnormal connection between lateral and posterior semicircular canal revealed by a new modeling process: origin and physiological consequences. Ann N Y Acad Sci.;1164:455-7.
  • Thirioux B., Jorland G., Bret M., Tramus M.H., Berthoz A. (2009) Walking on a line : a motor paradigm using rotation and reflection symmetry to study mental body transformations. Brain Cogn.;70(2) :191-200.
  • Vidal M., Lehmann A., Bülthoff H.H. (2009) A multisensory approach to spatial updating : the case of mental rotations. Exp Brain Res.;197(1) :59-68.
  • Zanelli G, Petrarca M, Cappa P, Castelli E, Berthoz A. (2009) Reorientation ability of adults and healthy children submitted to whole body horizontal rotations. Cogn Process. Sep;10 Suppl 2:S346-50.

2008
  • Eschenko, O., Ramadan, W., Mölle, M., Born, J., Sara, S.J. (2008) Sustained increase in hippocampal sharp-wave ripple activity during slow-wave sleep after learning, Learn Mem. , 15(4):222-8.
  • Eschenko O., Sara, S. J . (2008)Learning-dependent, transient increase of activity in noradrenergic neurons of locus coeruleus during slow wave sleep in the rat : Brain stem-cortex interplay for memory consolidation? Cereb Cortex, 18(11) :2596-603.
  • Khamassi M., Mulder A.B., Tabuchi E., Douchamps V., Wiener S.I. (2008) Anticipatory reward signals in ventral striatal neurons of behaving rats. Eur J Neurosci. 28(9):1849-66.
  • Lehmann A., Vidal M . Bülthoff H.H. (2008) « A high-end virtual reality setup for the study of mental rotations », Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 17 (4):365-375.
  • Girard B, Tabareau N, Pham QC , Berthoz A. & Slotine J-J.: (2008) Where Neuroscience and dynamic system theory meet autonomous robotics: a contracting basal ganglia model for action selection. Neural Networks, 21(4): 628-641.
  • Lambrey S , Amorim MA , Samson S , Noulhiane M , Hasboun D , Dupont S , Baulac M , Berthoz A . (2008) Distinct visual perspective-taking strategies involve the left and right medial temporal lobe structures differently. Brain . , 131 (Pt 2):523-34.
  • Mossio M, Vidal M & Berthoz A. (2008) Traveled distances: New insights into the role of optic flow, Vision Research, 48, 289–303.
  • Wiener JM, Lafon M, Berthoz A. (2008) Path planning under spatial uncertainty. Mem Cognit., 36(3): 495-504.
  • Lafon M, Tonnoir S, Berthoz A, Thibault G (2008) Analyse de la préparation et de la réalisation des tirs radiographiques pour le contrôle non destructif des soudures en CNPE, Radioprotection , Vol. 43(3), pp. 409-428.
  • Senot P, Baillet S, Renault B, Berthoz A. (2008) Cortical dynamics of anticipatory mechanisms in interception: a neuromagnetic study. J Cogn Neurosci., 20(10):1827-38.
  • Cappa P, Patanè F, Rossi S, Petrarca M, Castelli E, Berthoz A. (2008) Effect of changing visual condition and frequency of horizontal oscillations on postural balance of standing healthy subjects. Gait Posture. 28(4) :615-26..
  • Bullot, N. & Droulez J. (2008) Keeping track of invisible individuals while exploring a spatial layout with partial cues: location-based and deictic direction-based strategies, Philosophical Psychology, 21(1):15-46.
  • Devisme, C., Drobe, B., Monot A. & Droulez, J. (2008) Stereoscopic depth perception in peripheral field and global processing of horizontal disparity gradient pattern, Vision Research, 48(6):753-64.
  • Paradis, A.-L., Droulez, J., Cornilleau-Pérès, V. & Poline, J.-B. (2008)Processing 3D form and 3D motion: respective contributions of attention-based and stimulus-driven activity. Neuroimage, 2008; 43 : 736-747.
  • Houillon, A. & Droulez, J. (2008) Implementation of a Bayesian filter in a photoreceptor cell, Neurocomp08

Theses since 2008 to 2012

2011

  • Adrien Barthou
  • Romain David
  • Gabrielle Girardeau

2010

  • Audrey Houillon
  • Pierre Lebranchu

2009

  • Christian Boucheny
  • Nicolas Filliard
  • Kinga Katinka Igloi
  • Isadora Olive
  • Adrien Peyrache
  • Lydia Pouga
  • Quang-Cuong Pham
  • Nicolas Tabareau
  • Bérangère Thirioux

2008

  • Simon Capern
  • Céline Devisme
  • Samson Freyermuth
  • Matthieu Lafon
  • Luc Foubert
  • Giulia Zanelli
 

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