Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Born (1959-11-23) November 23, 1959 (age 65)
Mayenne
Alma materUniversity of Angers
François Rabelais University
AwardsCNRS Silver Medal
Scientific career
InstitutionsCNRS
ThesisEarly linguistic skills and their neural basis (1995)
Doctoral advisorJacques Mehler

Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (born 23 November 1959) is a French paediatrician. She is the Professor and Director of the Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at CNRS. Her research uses non-invasive brain imaging to understand children's cognitive function. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Early life and education

Dehaene-Lambertz grew up in Mayenne.[1] Her family were farmers.[1] She studied medicine at the François Rabelais University. She moved to the University of Angers for her doctoral degree, where she researched cognitive science. She joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1999.

Research and career

Dehaene-Lambertz looks to understand how cognitive function emerge in the human brain. She achieves this by examining how infant brains understand and interact with the external world, and how this understanding is impacted by their environment and culture.[2]

In the early 2000s Dehaene-Lambertz pioneered the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, high-density event-related potentials and optical topography to better understand the infant brain. She has investigated language acquisition, and complex cognitive functions such as music, mathematics and facial perception. She was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2016 to investigate neural mechanisms of learning in the brain.[3]

Dehaene-Lambertz has written several popular science books, including Seeing the Mind: Spectacular Images from Neuroscience, and What They Reveal about Our Neuronal Selves.

Awards and honours

Select publications

  • L Cohen; S Dehaene; Lionel Naccache; S Lehéricy; Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz; M A Hénaff; F Michel (1 February 2000). "The visual word form area: spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients". Brain. 123 ( Pt 2): 291–307. doi:10.1093/BRAIN/123.2.291. ISSN 0006-8950. PMID 10648437. Wikidata Q33887806.
  • J Mehler; P Jusczyk; G Lambertz; N Halsted; J Bertoncini; C Amiel-Tison (July 1988). "A precursor of language acquisition in young infants". Cognition. 29 (2): 143–78. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(88)90035-2. ISSN 0010-0277. PMID 3168420. Wikidata Q28291944.
  • Dehaene S; Naccache L; Le Clec'H G; Koechlin E; Mueller M; Dehaene-Lambertz G; van de Moortele PF; Le Bihan D (1 October 1998). "Imaging unconscious semantic priming". Nature. 395 (6702): 597–600. doi:10.1038/26967. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 9783584. Wikidata Q34476388.

Personal life

Dehaene-Lambertz is married to Stanislas Dehaene.[1] Together they have three sons.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Jean-Luc (2019-06-07). "Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, chercheuse en neuro-sciences enthousiaste". Fondation de France (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  2. ^ Dehaene-Lambertz, Ghislaine (February 2017). "The human infant brain: A neural architecture able to learn language". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 24 (1): 48–55. doi:10.3758/s13423-016-1156-9. ISSN 1531-5320. PMC 5433546. PMID 28120318.
  3. ^ "Neural mechanisms of learning in the infant brain : from Statistics to Rules and Symbols". European Research Council. 2016-09-01.
  4. ^ "Awardees – Justine & Yves Sergent Fund". Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  5. ^ "Academy of Europe: Dehaene-Lambertz Ghislaine". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  6. ^ "Fondation NRJ pour les neurosciences - Institut de France". fondation.nrj.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  7. ^ "Médaille d'Argent 2018 : Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, directrice de recherche CNRS en sciences cognitives | CNRS Images". images.cnrs.fr. January 2018. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  8. ^ "Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-04-29.