Research statement
We aim to provide an understanding of higher-order cognitive functions, focusing on perception, learning, inference, and decision making, with an integrated approach that bridges across scales, from molecules to neurons, large populations of neurons, cortical and cortical-subcortical circuits, complex cognitive processes and behavior, using computational modeling.
Our computational approach ranges from abstract models of the quantities that ought to be computed by the brain (e.g. predictions in a task), to algorithmic descriptions of these models and the mapping of their constituents onto brain structures and brain dynamics, to the neural code of internal representations.
Our team is part of the UNICOG laboratory. The team is located in two places in the Paris Area, France: Its primary location is the Institute for Neuromodulation (INM) within Sainte Anne Hospital, dedicated to innovating in psychiatry using interventional methods (including intracranial EEG, voltammetry, electrical stimulation, pharmacology) and tools from computational neurosciences and machine-learning. We are also part of Neurospin, a brain imaging center (including MEG, IRM at 3T, 7T and 11.7T) located in the broader Paris area. Our principal investigators contribute their expertise in various, complementary fields and methods.
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Latest news
video
• March 10, 2026
The first video in our new "Paper to Pixel" project is out! The project will summarize new publications from the group in short and accessible videos. First up: A non-monotonic code for event probability in the human brain.
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April 18, 2025
Dr. Joao Barbosa, Principal Investigator in the "Computational Brain" team, has come second in the INSERM recruitment competition.
He'll now be a permanent researcher in the team.
Congratulations to him!
Readmore New papers out
Pohl S, Walker EY, Barack DL, Lee J, Denison RN, Block N, Meyniel F*, Ma WJ*
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
• March 20, 2026
Pigeon, E., Smadja, S., Berkovitch, L., Dhôte, J., Jaffré, C., Gauthier, C., Abdel-Ahad, P., Le Bouc, R., Daunizeau, J., Gaillard, R., Pessiglione, M., Vinckier, F.
Schizophrenia Bulletin (in press)
• March 05, 2026
Rothärmel, M., Mekaoui, L., Kazour, F., Herrero, M., Beetz-Lobono, E.-M., Lengvenyte, A., Holtzmann, J., Raynaud, P., Cuenca, M., Bulteau, S., Maricourt, P. de, Husson, T., Olié, E., … Berkovitch, L.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology (in press)
• March 05, 2026
