ConTAct: Control, Timing & Action

Présentation

Control, Timing and Action


The ConTAct team

• characterise how action control and timing optimise action, leading to adaptive behavior

• explore how action control and timing functionally interact and neurally overlap

• identify developmental trajectory of action control and timing

• pinpoint how action control or timing breaks down in different clinical disorders

 

News

 

January 2026

We welcome Gustavo de Asevedo, who is visiting us for 6 months from Andre Carvo's lab in Sao Paolo and will be working with Jenny Coull.

And welcome to Louise Godard, who will be doing her M2 project with Helene Wilquin.

 

December 2025

Congratulations to both Estelle Mieulet and Lea Hami, who got their PhDs with praise from the examining committee :)

 

 

November 2025

Lots of new arrivals this month!  We welcome :

  • Arnaud Zalta who has joined the team as a postdoc, working with Boris Burle
  • Eva Guillaume who is working as a lab assistant for Laurence Casini
  • Veronica Casagrande, who is visiting us for 6 months from Andre Cravo's lab in Sao Paulo and will be working with Jenny Coull and Franck Vidal

 

October 2025

Several members of the team attended the 4th Timing Research Forum conference in Tokyo (TRF4).  Our research group was well represented with 2 talks and 5 posters.  Very proud of Siham, Louis-Clement, and Claire.  And it was so nice to catch up with our ex-members Inga and Nathalie, and future members Veronica and Gustavo :)

 

TRF4

 

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inga&brazil

 

 

September 2025

Several members of the team attended the INTERTIME summer school in Porquerolles, organised by Jenny Coull and David Robbe.  Such a friendly and interactive atmosphere in a stunning setting!

 

INTERTIME participants

 

April 2025

Congratulations to Ali Adeli-Koudehi for an intense and successful PhD viva. The title of the thesis "Neuroeconomics of Cognitive Effort: Definition and Measurement"

November 2024

Congratulations to Nathalie Pavailler who got her PhD with unanimous praise from the examining committee

Nathalie PhD

 

October 2024

Several members of the team attended the very first meeting of the French Association for Timing (FAsT), held at Saclay near Paris.  Estelle, Siham, Louis-Clement and Claire all got great interest in their posters

FAsT 2024

 

June 2024

Welcome to Louis-Clement Da Costa and Claire Terran who are joining us as PhD students.  Louis-Clement will be supervised by Jenny & Boris, and Claire will be supervised by Laurence.

Louis-Clement & Claire

 

Publications significatives de l'équipe