Humans do not perceive space uniformly: the brain encodes space near the body differently from distant space. The area immediately surrounding the body is called peripersonal space (PPS). This space is particularly important at the behavioral level because it is through this space that we interact with the outside world. At least two functions are attributed to PPS: protecting the body and planning goal-directed actions.

Encadrement Laboratoires/institution d’accueil : CERTOP, LGP/ICE, Uttop, Tarbes ; Fans4All, PREFICS, Rennes Encadrant.e(s) : Philippe Marrast (CERTOP), Etienne Ceretto (Fans4All), Cédrick Béler (LGP/ICE), Isabelle Bazet (CERTOP), Marie Bénéjean (PREFICS), Florian Hémont (PREFICS) Contexte Le stage s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche interdisciplinaire porté par le consortium Fans4all et visant à améliorer la sécurité et l’accessibilité en aviation, notamment pour des pilotes dits HSI* (pilotes privés, aviation légère). Afin de permettre à ces pilotes HSI de pouvoir voler de faço

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The medial olivocochlear (MOC) system is a critical neural feedback loop that allows the brain to dynamically control the sensitivity of the auditory periphery, in particular on outer hair cells (OHCs). This system is believed to have a pivotal role for hearing in noisy environments. Numerous studies suggest its effectiveness varies greatly between individuals and that it declines particularly with age.

Our research group is seeking a motivated Master’s student to join a project investigating how early adverse experiences influence the development of mental and behavioral disorders in nonhuman primates. By integrating animal welfare and evolutionary psychiatry, the study seeks to uncover the evolutionary, ecological, and developmental foundations of psychopathology. Our main hypothesis is that human dimensional models of adversity— deprivation, threat, and unpredictability—can predict the emergence of psychopathologies in primates.

Our research group is seeking a highly motivated Master’s student to join a project on multimodal communication in early childhood, with a specific focus on the role of gestures in peer interactions.

Our research group is seeking a motivated Master’s student to join a project investigating gestural communication and lateralization in non-human primates. The study will examine lateralization in communicative gestures across several primate species housed in wildlife centers.

Our research group is seeking a motivated Master’s student to join our ongoing projects at the intersection of primatology, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Building on our recent work (Llorente, Guitton & Castelain, 2025), this project aims to investigate how concepts from primatology can be applied to the study and design of social robots. The selected student will develop an original thesis project focusing specifically on how large language models (LLMs) and generative AI systems perceive and represent the association between primatology and social robotics.

Sleep is an essential biological process, critically involved in learning, especially in infancy. Throughout development, brain activity during sleep undergoes important changes before reaching its mature organization. In particular, it is initially characterized by two different stages: quiet and active sleep. While we know that sensory processing is disrupted during sleep, we still lack a quantitative description of how it reduces sensory responses in these two different sleep stages.

What are the psychological factors that drive charitable donations? Is there a psychological gap between rich and poorer donors in preferences for charitable interventions? These are the questions we seeked to answer in a vignette study conducted on more than 700 U.S. participants.