We investigate individual differences in cognitive development and in school achievement, their cognitive and neural basis, and the underlying genetic and environmental factors.
We study both normal and pathological variations in cognitive development, with a particular expertise on developmental dyslexia, and a special interest in sex differences.
Within development, we are particularly interested in language, literacy and numeracy, general intelligence, and psychiatric disorders.
We employ mainly an epidemiological approach relying on birth cohorts and large cognitive, educational and biological databases.
Team's current news
9/09/2025: Erva Kandemir will defend her PhD entitled "Optimizing Medical Training Through Learning Analytics and a Large-Scale Experiment".
19/06/2025: Iris Dong will defend her Master's thesis entitled "Investigating the Role of Visual Attention in Reading Acquisition Using the BRAID-Acq Model".
12/06/2025: Lilas Gurgand will defend her PhD entitled "Gender gaps in school performance from the beginning of primary school: the influence of family and school".
19/03/2025: Lilas published a new paper:Gurgand, L., Peyre, H., & Ramus, F. (2025). Gender disparities in parental linguistic engagement and in children’s language development. Learning and Individual Differences, 120, 102679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102679
The team
Associated member
Professeur de Pédopsychiatrie / Pédopsychiatre au CHU de Montpellier