Hub for Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Welcome to CerebrUM! A group of researchers interested in neuropsychology and cognitive and computational neuroscience at the Université de Montréal. 

CerebrUM is a space that aims to encourage and accelerate scientific work at the interface of neuropsychology and cognitive and computational neuroscience.

Our offices are located in the Department of Psychology and the majority of our members are professors or students in this department.

Our objectives

  • Foster collaborations between researchers in the Department of Psychology and those from other units in neuropsychology as well as cognitive and computational neuroscience at the Université de Montréal. This collaboration includes research co-development, joint funding applications, and the planning of interdepartmental and inter-faculty courses.
  • Create partnerships between academic, clinical and industrial players to accelerate knowledge transfer in neuropsychology and cognitive and computational neuroscience in Quebec. Thus, CerebrUM will eventually welcome start-up companies in its premises.

In order to facilitate scientific exchanges, CerebrUM will soon offer an innovative space for group work, creation and training, the NeuroBuro.

News

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September 19, 2024: Lecture by Prof. Aaron Seitz (Northeastern University) entitled “The Promise of Brain Training Games”. Click to view the event.

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September 12, 2024: Lecture by Prof. Stephanie Höhl (University of Vienna) entitled “Social Rhythms and Biobehavioral Synchrony in Early Human Development”. Click to view the event.

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Congratulations to the 6 recipients of the 2024 cerebrum scholarship contest who will each receive a scholarship worth $7000: Marie-Pier Côté, Xanthy Lajoie, Emmanuel Lebeau, Marie-Noëlle Lortie, Samantha Mombelli, and Dorothée Morand-Grondin.

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April 5, 2024: Lecture by Prof. Ivana Konvalinka (Technical University of Denmark) entitled “Social asymmetries: mechanisms and models of self and other in social interaction”. Click to view the event.

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January 19, 2024: Lecture by Prof. Étienne Vachon-Presseau (McGill University) entitled “Modèles prédictifs pour le développement de la douleur chronique”. Click to view the event.

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December 8, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Elise Roger (Université de Montréal) entitled “L'âge cérébro-cognitif pour explorer la diversité neurocognitive”. Click to view the event.

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November 17, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Ralph Adolphs (California Institute of Technology) entitled “What is the mind? From folk psychology to scientific psychology and back again”. Click to view the event.

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November 10, 2023: Lecture by Dr. Nadine Dijkstra (University College London) entitled “Fundamental constraints on distinguishing reality and imagination”. Click to view the event.

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October 6, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Catherine Duclos (Université de Montréal) entitled “Prédire et moduler la conscience en soins critiques et chirurgicaux”. Click to view the event.

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September 22, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Paul Cisek (Université de Montréal) entitled “Rethinking behavior in the light of evolution”. Click to view the event.

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April 14, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Suzanne Dikker (New York University) entitled “On conducting citizen neuroscience research at the interface of art, science, and education”. Click to view the event.

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March 24, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Steve Majerus (Université de Liège) entitled “Le maintien temporaire de l’ordre des événements : Comment et avec quels codes?”. Click to view the event.

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February 10, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Stéphanie Mazza (Université Claude Bernard de Lyon) entitled “Sommeil et apprentissage de l’enfant”. Click to view the event.

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January 13, 2023: Lecture by Prof. Louis-Éric Trudeau (Université de Montréal) entitled “À quoi sert la dopamine dans notre cerveau?”. Click to view the event.

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November 11, 2022: Lecture by Dr. Aurelio Cortese (ATR Institute International) entitled “Artificial value-tagging of sensory neural representations in humans”. Click to view the event.

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October 14, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Thomas Naselaris (University of Minnesota) entitled “Brain-optimized network models of the human visual system”. Click to view the event.

September 23, 2022: Lecture by Dr. Shady Rahayel (McGill University) entitled “Le sommeil comme fenêtre sur la dégénérescence associée à la démence à corps de Lewy”. Click to view the event.

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April 8, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Matthieu Vanni (Université de Montréal) entitled “La souris pour étudier la perception visuelle et la connectivité fonctionnelle dans différents modèles d’ischémie cérébrale”. Click to view the event.

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April 1, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) entitled “Deep learning of representations for conscious cognition”. Click to view the event.

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March 11, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Judit Gervain (University of Padua) entitled “The developmental basis of speech perception: how neural oscillations support speech perception and language acquisition in the first months of life”. Click to view the event.

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February 11, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia University) entitled “Controversial stimuli: Optimizing experiments to adjudicate among computational hypotheses”. Click to view the event.

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January 21, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Louis de Beaumont (Université de Montréal) entitled “Réduction de la douleur d'origine traumatique”. Click to view the event.

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January 14, 2022: Lecture by Prof. Mallar Chakravarty (McGill University) entitled “Multi-species neuroimaging in psychiatry”. Click to view the event.

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December 3, 2021: Lecture by Prof. Tomas Paus (Université de Montréal) entitled “Population Neuroscience of the Developing Brain”. Click to view the event.

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November 19, 2021: Lecture by Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier (Université de Genève) entitled “Emotion processing: network dynamics and brain states”. Click to view the event.

November 12, 2021: Lecture by Prof. Marieke Mur (Western University) entitled “Modelling representational transformations in the human ventral visual system”. Click to view the event.

November 5, 2021: Cerebrum Roundtable Workshop entitled "Comment bâtir une carrière en recherche en neuroscience cognitive? Perspectives du monde académique et de l’industrie”. Click to view the event.

October 15, 2021: Lecture by Prof. Kendrick Kay (University of Minnesota) entitled “The natural scenes dataset”. Click to view the event.

September 17, 2021: Lecture by Prof. Lauren Emberson (University of British Columbia) entitled “Using fNIRS to investigate how experience supports infant neural development”. Click to view the event.

On September 10, 2021, a special event entitled "From CERNEC to Cerebrum" was held highlighting the great achievements and moments of CERNEC and its director Franco Lepore. Click to view photos taken during the event.

On November 10, 2020, the launch event of the brand new neuropsychology, cognitive and computational neuroscience research center, Cerebrum, was held. We were more than 110 professors, students, administrators, and partners to participate. Click to view the event. Discover here the bloopers of some of the pre-recorded addresses!!!

Congratulations to Ian Charest , a newly appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at UdeM, for being awarded the new Courtois Philanthropic Chair in Fundamental Cognitive Neuroscience! Bravo Ian!

Congratulations to Sarah Provost, PhD R/I candidate in neuropsychology at UdeM, for winning the $500 prize for having proposed the name "cerebrum" for our research group. This name was selected among 130 proposals following a contest within our community. Way to go Sarah!

NeuroBuro

To facilitate scientific exchanges, CerebrUM will soon offer an innovative space for co-working, creative development and training, the NeuroBuro. The NeuroBuro will be built as part of the Marie-Victorin Pavilion renovations.

In the meantime, members and collaborators have access to the proto-NeuroBuro, located in room F-460 of the Marie-Victorin Pavilion. There, you can host meetings and video conferences or simply share a meal. The room is equipped with a giant screen and a camera as well as a kitchenette.

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A professor from a Canadian or foreign institution who wants to become a member of CerebrUM must send their Curriculum Vitae along with a letter outlining their motivation to join CerebrUM and their research interests by email to the co-directors at the address cerebrum@psy.umontreal.ca. All requests will be evaluated by members of the Executive Committee.

All members of CerebrUM, along with their students and staff members, have access to the resources, conferences, and other scientific events organized by CerebrUM.