Publications

From brain to education through machine learning: Predicting literacy and numeracy skills from neuroimaging data, Imaging Neuroscience, in press.PDF

How do theory of mind and formal language skills impact metaphoric reference comprehension during children’s school-age years, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, in press.PDF

Intergenerational transmission of brain structure and function in humans: A narrative review of designs, methods, and findings, Brain Structure and Function, 2024, 229, 1327–1348PDF

Assessing theory of mind in children: a tablet-based adaptation of a classic picture sequencing task, Child Psychiatry & Human Development, in press.PDF

Spatial attention in mental arithmetic: A literature review and meta-analysis, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, in press.PDF

Fraction knowledge in adults with persistent mathematics difficulties, Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024, 47(1), 30-43.PDF

Arithmetic skills are associated with left fronto-temporal grey matter volume in 536 children and adolescents, npj Science of Learning, 2023, 8(1), 56.PDF

Neural evidence for procedural automatization during cognitive development: Intraparietal response to changes in very-small addition problem-size increases with age, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023, 64, 101310.PDF

Developmental Trajectory of Anticipation: Insights from Sequential Comparative Judgments, Behavioral Sciences, 2023, 13(8), 646.PDF

To what extent do home numeracy practices and parental number talk relate to children’s math skills? A pre-registered study in 5-year-old children, Learning and Individual Differences, 2023, 106 : 102328. PDF

Task-independent neural bases of peer presence effect on cognition in children and adults, Neuroimage, 2023, 277 : 120247. PDF

The development of simple addition problem solving in children: Reliance on automatized counting or memory retrieval depends on both expertise and problem size, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2023, 234 : 105710. PDF

Cortical representations of numbers and non-symbolic quantities expand and segregate in children from 5 to 8 years of age, Plos Biology, 2023, 21(1): e3001935. PDF

Quels sont les liens entre les compétences en mathématiques des enfants et leur environnement familial d’apprentissage ? Une revue de la littérature, ANAE, 2022, 180, 001-013.PDF

Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review, Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, 2022, 48:101228.PDF

Le développement des compétences numériques, In: Fourneret P. and Gentaz E., eds. Dynamique du neurodéveloppement de l’anténatal à l’adolescence. Paris, France: Elsevier Masson.,

Impact of a game-based intervention on fraction learning for fifth-grade students: A pre-registered randomized controlled study, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, in press.PDF

Prior home learning environment is associated with adaptation to homeschooling during COVID lockdown, Heliyon, 2022, 8(4), e09294.PDF

Neural representations of absolute and relative magnitudes in symbolic and non-symbolic formats, Cerebral Cortex, in press.PDF

Nurturing the mathematical brain: Home numeracy practices are associated with children’s neural responses to Arabic numerals, Psychological Science, 2022, 33(2), 196-211.PDF

Relational reasoning in mathematical development: Neuro-cognitive foundations and implications for the classroom, In: Houdé O. and Borst G. (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 566-584.PDF

Comment la didactique des mathématiques peut-elle informer l’étude de la cognition numérique? L’exemple d’une étude collaborative autour de la pédagogie Montessori à l’école maternelle, Raisons éducatives, 2021, (1), 237-259.PDF

Nurturing the reading brain: Home literacy practices are associated with children’s neural response to printed words through vocabulary skills, npj Science of Learning, 2021, 6(1), 1-11.PDF

Peer presence effect on numerosity and phonological comparisons in 4th graders: When working with a schoolmate makes children more adult-like, Biology, 2021, 20(9), 902.PDF

The relation between home numeracy practices and a variety of math skills in elementary school children, PLOS One, 2021, 16(9), e0255400.PDF

Effects of Montessori education on the academic, cognitive, and social development of disadvantaged preschoolers: A randomized controlled study in the French public-school system, Child Development, 2021, 39(3), 380-392.PDF

Neurocognitive basis of deductive reasoning in children varies with parental education, Human Brain Mapping, 2021, 41(11), 3396-3410.PDF

A neuroimaging dataset of deductive reasoning in school-aged children, Data in Brief, 2020, 33, 106405.PDF

Exploring MLD in mathematics education: Ten years of research, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2020, 60, 100807.PDF

Priming effects of arithmetic signs in 10- to 15-year-old children, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021, 39(3), 380-392.PDF

Learning to run the number line: The development of attentional shifts during single-digit arithmetic, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2020, 1477(1), 79-90.PDF

The ratio processing system and its role in fraction understanding: Evidence from a match-to-sample task in children and adults with and without dyscalculia, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2020, 73(12), 2158-2176.PDF

The neural bases of argumentative reasoning, Brain and Language, 2020, 208, 104827.PDF

Neural representations of transitive relations predict current and future math calculation skills in children, Neuropsychologia, 2020, 141, 107410.PDF

Les recherches en neurosciences cognitives : quels apports pour l’enseignement des mathématiques ?, In: Dorier, J-L., Gueudet, G., Peltier, M-L., Robert, A. & Roditi, E. (eds.), Enseigner les mathématiques. Didactique et enjeux de l’apprentissage, Paris, France: Belin, 2018, 237-246

Du sens des quantités au raisonnement mathématique, In: Borst, G. & Houdé O., eds. Le cerveau et les apprentissages - Cycles 1,2,3. Paris, France: Nathan, 2018, 124-125

Aux racines de la cognition mathématique : comment les quantités numériques sont liées à l’espace dans l’esprit humain, La gazette des mathématiciens, 2018, 159PDF

Si la dyscalculie m’était contée, Cahiers pédagogiques, 2019, 552PDF

Impaired neural processing of transitive relations in children with math learning difficulty, Neuroimage: Clinical, 2018.PDF

Lack of improvement in multiplication is associated with reverting from verbal retrieval to numerical operations, Neuroimage, 2018, 183, 859-871.PDF

What’s behind a ‘+’ sign? Perceiving an arithmetic operator recruits brain circuits for spatial orienting, Cerebral Cortex, 2018 ,28, 1673-1684. PDF

Hippocampal spatial mechanisms relate to the development of arithmetic symbol processing in children, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2018, 30, 324-332.PDF

Quelle manipulation, représentation et communication dans les ateliers Montessori de première numération ?, Grand N, 2018 , 101, 83-105.

The Interplay Between Learning Arithmetic and Learning to Read: Insights From Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, In: Henik A and Fias W, eds. Heterogeneity of Function in Numerical Cognition, San Diego: Academic Press, 2018, 27-43.PDF

The relationship between deductive reasoning and the syntax of language in Broca’s area: A review of the neuroimaging literature, L'année psychologique/Topics in Cognitive Psychology, 2018, 118(3), 289-315.PDF

The neural development of pragmatic inference-making in natural discourse, Developmental Science, 2018, 21(6), e12678.PDF

Running the Number Line: Rapid Shifts of Attention in Single-Digit Arithmetic, Cognition, 2016, 146, 229-239.PDF

Entre neurosciences et éducation : les chainons manquants, Cahiers pédagogiques, 2016, 527, 35-38.PDF

Neural correlates of math gains vary depending on parental socioeconomic status (SES), Frontiers in Psychology, 2016, 7:892.PDF

La dyscalculie et l’automatisation des procédures de calcul, Développements, 2017,20-21.PDF

Social modulation of cognition: Lessons from rhesus macaques relevant to education, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017, 82, 45-57.PDF

The neural development of conditional reasoning in children: Different mechanisms for assessing the logical validity and likelihood of conclusions, Neuroimage, 2017, 163, 264-275.PDF

Developmental dissociation in the neural responses to simple multiplication and subtraction problems, Developmental Science, 2014, 17(4), 537-552.PDF

Children with mathematical learning disability fail in recruiting verbal and numerical brain regions when solving simple multiplication problems, Cortex, 2014, 57, 143-155.PDF

The Differential Role of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory in the Neural Basis of Arithmetic, Developmental Psychology, 2014, 39, 440-458.PDF

Distributed neural representations of logical arguments in school-age children, Human Brain Mapping, 2015, 36, 996-1009.PDF

Neural interaction between logical reasoning and pragmatic processing in narrative discourse, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2015, 27, 692-704.PDF

Parental Socioeconomic Status and the Neural Basis of Arithmetic: Differential Relations to Verbal and Visuo-spatial Representations, Developmental Science, 2015, 18, 799-814.PDF

Heightened activity in a key region of the ventral attention network is linked to reduced activity in a key region of the dorsal attention network during unexpected shifts of covert visual spatial attention, Neuroimage, 2012, 61(4), 798-804.PDF

Neural evidence that utterance-processing entails mentalizing: The case of irony, Neuroimage, 2012, 63(1), 25-39. PDF

Fractionating the neural substrates of transitive reasoning: Task-dependent contributions of spatial and verbal representations, Cerebral Cortex, 2013, 23(3), 499-507.PDF

The neural bases of the multiplication problem-size effect across countries, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013, 7:189.PDF

Recomposing a fragmented literature: How conditional and relational arguments engage different neural systems for deductive reasoning, Neuroimage, 2010, 51(3), 1213-1221.PDF

Overlapping and distinct neural representations of numbers and verbal transitive series, Cerebral Cortex, 2010, 20(3), 720-729.PDF

Variations of response time in a selective attention task are linked to variations of functional connectivity in the attentional network, Neuroimage, 2011, 54(1), 541-549.PDF

Spatial attention influences trial-by-trial relationships between response time and functional connectivity in the visual cortex, Neuroimage, 2011, 54(1), 465-473.PDF

Heightened interactions between a key default-mode region and a key task-positive region are linked to suboptimal performance but to enhanced future performance, Neuroimage, 2011, 56(4), 2276-2282.PDF

The brain network for deductive reasoning: A quantitative meta-analysis of 28 neuroimaging studies, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011, 23(11), 3483-3497.PDF

Distinct representations of subtraction and multiplication in the neural systems for numerosity and language, Human Brain Mapping, 2011, 32(11), 1932-1947.PDF

Spatial associations in relational reasoning: Evidence for a SNARC-like effect, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2008, 61(8), 1143-1150.PDF

Overcoming perceptual features in logical reasoning: An event-related potentials study, Neuropsychologia, 2008, 46(11), 2629-2637.PDF

How reaction times measures elucidate the matching bias and the way negations are processed, Thinking and Reasoning, 2006, 12(3), 309-28.PDF

How humans reach: Distinct cortical systems for central and peripheral vision, Neuroscientist, 2007, 13(1), 22-7.PDF

Overcoming perceptual features in logical reasoning: A parametric fMRI study, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007, 19(4), 642-657.PDF

Intelligence and reasoning are not one and the same, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Commentary on Jung & Haier), 2007, 30(2), 163-164.PDF

Two cortical systems for reaching in central and peripheral vision, Neuron, 2005, 48(5), 849-58.PDF