Barbu Revencu is a Paris-based cognitive scientist interested in symbols and the language of thought. His doctoral work, under the supervision of Gergely Csibra and Dan Sperber at the Central European University in Vienna, focused on the cognitive mechanism that enables us to interpret symbols in representations. He developed a theoretical approach to this human capacity and provided empirical evidence of its presence in infants.
After completing his PhD, he was awarded a Fyssen Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral work with Stanislas Dehaene at NeuroSpin, where he studied adult thought-language representations of geometric shapes. As part of the ERC Mental Files project, he is currently developing a brain imaging paradigm to study how adults associate perceptual object files with discursive files in symbolic contexts where objects are used as symbols of distal entities.
