Lionel Brunel

Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier · Département de Psychologie

Résumé. La communication présente le modèle Dynamique et Ecosystémique d'Adaptation par Allostasie, un cadre dédié à la planification d’interventions en Santé Globale mettant l’emphase sur l'adaptation fonctionnelle des acteurs et des organisations en symbiose avec leur écosystème. Une méthodologie alignée sur le protocole d'Intervention Mapping e...

Achieving ambitious goals in Global Health first requires an integrative understanding of how individuals and organizations adapt in a living ecosystem. The absence of a unified framework limits the consideration of the issues in their complexity, which further complicates the planning of Global Health programs aimed at articulating population-base...

Recent studies in the field of theater studies no longer view theater as an object, but rather as a dynamic relationship between actors and spectators. In an embodied and situated perspective of cognition, imagination emerges as a product of this dynamic. This study aims to investigate whether acting practice enhances someone’s abilities to set up...

Nowadays, cities are increasingly promoting active transportation modes and public transport to reduce car use. In parallel, the management of problematic ambient factors such as the odour in public transport systems is becoming a very important issue due to crowding that is constantly increasing. In this context, in order to contribute to public p...

Alors qu’une sensibilité émotionnelle accrue des adolescent.e.s à l’exclusion sociale vécue et observée est cohérente avec les modèles neurocognitifs du fonctionnement adolescent, les résultats de la littérature sont soit limités (dans le cas de l’ observation d’une exclusion), soit mitigés, notamment lorsque la population testée est composée d’hom...

Résumé Cette étude vise à mettre en évidence le rôle médiateur de l’épuisement professionnel et des violences psychologiques perçues entre l’objectification et ses conséquences sur la perception de soi en tant qu’objet. Au total, 180 professionnels ont répondu à un questionnaire en ligne afin de mesurer ces construits. Les résultats révèlent un eff...

Introduction Strokes leave around 40% of survivors dependent in their activities of daily living, notably due to severe motor disabilities. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been shown to be efficiency for improving motor recovery after stroke, but this efficiency is still far from the level required to achieve the clinical breakthrough expecte...

There is increasing evidence in the joint action literature that the degree of self-other integration is sensitive to situational factors that affect the social interaction context. Until now, however, no study has addressed the potential role of dispositional factors such as personality traits in observed interindividual variations. The current st...

Space and time mutually influence each other such that space affects time estimation (space-on-time effect), and conversely (time-on-space effect). These reciprocal interferences suggest that space and time are intrinsically linked in the human mind. Yet, recent evidence for an asymmetrical advantage for space over time challenges the classical the...

Abstract: Humans frequently use tools to reduce action-related efforts. Interestingly, several studies have demonstrated that individuals had tool-related biases in terms of perceived effort reduction during motor imagery tasks, despite the lack of evidence of real benefits. Reduced effort allocation has been repeatedly found in schizophrenia, but...

From a constructivist approach on education, we used the “Hooks and Shifts” method to help students learn an abstract mathematical knowledge. Focusing on arithmetic mean, central to university curricula, the method was integrated through highly immersive technology, the virtual reality. We investigated associations between “Shifts”, reflecting situ...

Sharing a task with another person can introduce the need to discriminate representations that refer to our own action from that of the other person’s. The current understanding is that information about the stimulus event drives the self-other discrimination process, as it promotes (via the reactivation of feature codes) the representation that en...

The Joint Simon Effect (JSE) is known to reflect the natural and spontaneous tendency to integrate actions from another individual into our own action system during joint action. This tendency to co-represent others' actions positively correlates with the dispositional tendency to take others' perspective. However, a quick episode of social exclusi...

Social baseline theory states that there are differences in how humans integrate social resources into their economy of action when they face environmental demands. However, although several authors suggested that extraversion may be an indicator of the social baseline, no study has demonstrated it. The present study aims to test this hypothesis an...

An increasing number of studies focus on the phenomenon of objectification in the workplace. This phenomenon reflects a process of subjection of the employee, where he is considered as an object, a mean (utilitarian) or reduced to one of his attributes. Previous studies have shown that objectification can have consequences on the workplace health o...

Classically investigated in the context of judgment tasks about achievable actions, affordances have also been investigated in the context of the stimulus–response compatibility paradigm. Earlier work showed that perceptual categorization performance is significantly faster and more accurate when the orientation of the graspable part of a presented...

In this study we envisage the psychological anticipation of events as a means of promoting motivation, intentionality and in return academic performance. 264 students answered a questionnaire in which academic success was invoked as an event, motivation, personal control, and intentionality toward success. Academic performance was also measured. Th...

Sense of Agency (SoA) is the subject of growing attention. It corresponds to the capacity to claim authorship over an action, associate specific consequences with a specific action, and it has been claimed to be a key point in the development of consciousness. It can be measured using the Sense of Agency Scale (SoAS), originally proposed by Tapal e...

Introduction: To explain motivational difficulties in schizophrenia (SZ), attention has focused on the reward system and effort-based decision-making deficits. However, according to motivational intensity theory (MIT), effort is not directly determined by reward but by task difficulty. Moreover, no studies have examined the effort perception in the...

Background Motivation impairments have long been seen as a central feature of schizophrenia. Attention has focused on the reward system and effort-based decision-making deficits. However, according to motivational intensity theory (MIT), effort mobilization and perception are not directly – and not only – determined by reward but, fundamentally, by...

Introduction. – Several studies have shown that adults can memorize an audio-visual association inresponse to an incidental presentation. Moreover, a motor experience of the letter-shape promotes letterknowledge and reading acquisition. Objective. – In order to develop optimal learning designs for children, we evaluate the effect of the implicitlea...

It is now well established that during joint performance agent tends to represent action of their co-actor. This phenomenon is usually investigated using a joint version of the simon task (Sebanz et al., 2003). In this task, we can observe a compatibility effect between participant task set and his position. This effect (i.e., joint simon effect) i...

When facing an environmental demand, we can use physical or social support to reduce the cost of our actions. But when do we evaluate these resources as a benefit? In this study, we investigate this question through 2 experiments. More precisely, we investigate whether the estimation of the benefit can be modulated by a specific personality trait s...

Performing goal-directed movements requires constant calibration of space perception and reaching behaviors by using sensorimotor feedback (Bourgeois & Coello, 2012). This visuomotor adaptation and its consequences on perception are usually studied by introducing spatiotemporal distortions during the performed action (for a review, see van Andel, C...

Une situation est un ensemble d’éléments qui opèrent comme des affordances et altèrent les jugements et les conduites à partir des relations interpersonnelles (Reis, 2008). C’est souvent à partir de la maîtrise des situations qu’il devient possible d’orienter les comportements, par exemples en matière de sécurité au travail ou de santé. Ainsi, la r...

L’expérience de flow rend compte d’un état mental de bien être qui accompagne une immersion totale dans l’activité (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). On peut observer cet état dans des situations très diverses, y compris au travail. On peut caractériser le flow à partir de l’observation d’une immersion dans l’activité accompagnée d’un plaisir à accomplir ce...

This study investigated the role of action constraints related to an object as regards allocentric distance estimation in extrapersonal space. In two experiments conducted in both real and virtual environments, participants intending to push a trolley had to estimate its distance from a target situated in front of them. The trolley was either empty...

Bias ratios of Experiment 1 and Experiment 2.

Raw data of Experiment 1 and Experiment 2.

Introduction - L'œuvre d'art (au sens de production d'un artiste) est bien souvent accessible à l'individu que dans des contextes environnementaux spécifiques (i.e., expositions). Pour plusieurs raisons (i.e., conservation, facilité d'accès pour la majorité du public), la conception des expositions d'œuvres d'art est aujourd'hui principalement basé...

Grounded theory argues that perceptual and memory processes share common sensorimotor properties, and that they influence each other during perceptual processing of the environment’s features. When these principles are applied to social cognition, it was shown that to live, or represent, a situation related to a social distance concept (e.g., ostra...

Global-matching models of memory argue that knowledge emerges from the interaction between presented cues and traces of past experiences. But these models generally rely on the use of independent episodic traces, unable to account for global interactions between learned situations (see Versace et al., 2009). Enactivism (Varela, 1993) could theoreti...

Aim To disentangle the respective impacts of manual dexterity and cerebral palsy (CP) in cognitive functioning after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke. Method The population included 60 children (21 females, 39 males) with neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke but not epilepsy. The presence of CP was assessed clinically at the age of 7 years and 2 m...

The present study examined throughout three experiments the nature of stimulus-response compatibility (SRC) effects related to affordance perception in situations wherein object affordances and response effectors are irrelevant to each other. In the first experiment, using a foot-press response dispositive, we found a SRC effect between the orienta...

Color is a critical part of objects representation as well as critical cue for recognizing objects. However, it is less clear how people represent color in memory. The present study aimed at investigating this issue. We designed a procedure based on short-term sensory memory load procedure mixed with a color-priming paradigm. Participants learned t...

Ideomotor approaches to action control have provided evidence that the activation of an anticipatory image of previously learned action-effects plays a decisive role in action selection. This study sought for converging evidence by combining three previous experimental paradigms: the response–effect compatibility protocol introduced by Kunde (Journ...

The main objectives of the present studies were to update the explicit gender stereotypes linked to sport activities and examine whether they are associated with gender, age, personal practice, and general feminization rates of participation (Study 1, N = 690), as well as to investigate the potential effects of implicit gender sport stereotypes on...

L’objectif de l’étude est d’évaluer l’impact sur l’anxiété maternelle de séparation (AMS) de la qualité de l’accueil du jeune enfant dans le registre des relations parents/professionnel-le-s en accueil collectif et en accueil individuel. Ces deux construits ont été évalués auprès de 54 mères primipares et du mode d’accueil de leur enfant selon la p...

Embodied approaches of cognition argue that retrieval involves the re-enactment of both sensory and motor components of the desired remembering. In this study, we investigated the effect of motor action performed to produce the response in a recognition task when this action is compatible with the affordance of the objects that have to be recognise...

The aim of this study was to provide evidence that actions performed by an individual influence the sensorimotor memory processing and, in particular, the integration process. We conducted 3 experiments that highlighted the multimodal aspect of memory traces. The 1st experiment consisted of a short-term priming paradigm based on 2 phases: a learnin...

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The aims of the present studies are to assess the sensory nature hypothesis of knowledge through a series of experimental results. Especially, we investigated the links between memory and perception using a short-term priming paradigm based on a previous learning phase consisting of the association between a geometrical shape and a white noise. Con...

Embodied approaches of cognition argue that retrieval involves the re-enactment of both sensory and motor components of the desired remembering. In this study, we investigated the effect of motor action performed to produce the response in a recognition task when this action is compatible with the affordance of the objects that have to be recognise...

Experiencing a stimulus in one sensory modality is often associated with an experience in another sensory modality. For instance, seeing a lemon might produce a sensation of sourness. This might indicate some kind of cross-modal correspondence between vision and gustation. The aim of the current study was to explore whether such cross-modal corresp...

The aim of this study was to show that sensory-motor consequences of past actions form part of memory trace components cued by current experience. In a first task participants had to learn a list of words. Then in a guessing task they played against the computer. Finally, in a recognition task, they had to judge if the words were or were not presen...

The present article proposes a new memory model called Act-In (Activation-Integration). Act-In extends the multiple trace memory models by placing them within the situated cognition perspective. Act-In considers that the activation and integration mechanisms play a key role in memory processes. These mechanisms are involved in both the construction...

The goal of the present study was to find evidence for a multisensory generalization effect (i.e., generalization from one sensory modality to another sensory modality). The authors used an innovative paradigm (adapted from Brunel, Labeye, Lesourd, & Versace, 2009 ) involving three phases: a learning phase, consisting in the categorization of geome...

One of the challenges for perceptually grounded accounts of high-level cognition is to explain how people make connections and draw inferences between situations that superficially have little in common. Evidence suggests that people draw these connections even without having explicit, verbalizable knowledge of their bases. Instead, the connections...

This study examined the relationship between memory and perception in order to identify the influence of a memory dimension in perceptual processing. Our aim was to determine whether the variation of typical size between items (i.e., the size in real life) affects visual search. In two experiments, the congruency between typical size difference and...

The aim of this article was to provide experimental evidence that classical dissociation between levels of consciousness associated with memory retrieval (i.e., implicit or explicit) can be explained in terms of task dependency and distinctiveness of traces. In our study phase, we manipulated the level of isolation (partial vs. global) of the memor...

The aim of this study was to demonstrate that the cross-modal priming effect is perceptual and therefore consistent with the idea that knowledge is modality dependent. We used a two-way cross-modal priming paradigm in two experiments. These experiments were constructed on the basis of a two-phase priming paradigm. In the study phase of Experiment 1...

The aim of the present study was to show the perceptual nature of conceptual knowledge by using a priming paradigm that excluded an interpretation exclusively in terms of amodal representation. This paradigm was divided into two phases. The first phase consisted in learning a systematic association between a geometrical shape and a white noise. The...

The aim of this study was to provide evidence that memory and perceptual processing are underpinned by the same mechanisms. Specifically, the authors conducted 3 experiments that emphasized the sensory aspect of memory traces. They examined their predictions with a short-term priming paradigm based on 2 distinct phases: a learning phase consisting...

lionel.brunel@univ-lyon2.fr), Vallet Guillaume (guillaume.vallet@univ-lyon2.fr), Riou Benoit (benoit.riou@univ-lyon2.fr) & Versace Rémy (remy.versace@univ-lyon2.fr) Université Lumière Lyon 2. Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC) EA 3082. 5 avenue Pierre Mendès France, F 69676, Bron cedex. Abstract The aim of the present study was to s...