Papers by Denis Brouillet
Frontiers in cognition, Jan 30, 2024
Souvenir et représentation
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Dec 31, 1985
Psychological Research
In the field of memory, it is now admitted that an experience of memory is not only the consequen... more In the field of memory, it is now admitted that an experience of memory is not only the consequence of the activation of a precise content, but also results from an inference associated with the transfer of the manner in which the process was carried out (i.e., fluency) in addition to the transfer of the process itself. The aim of this work was to show that experience of memory is also associated with the fluency that is due to the transfer of a processing carried out in our interactions with our past environment. Firstly, participants performed a perceptual discrimination task (geometric shapes: circle or square) that involves a fluent or a non-fluent gesture to respond. Motor fluency vs. non-fluency was implicitly associated with the colour of the geometric shapes. Secondly, participants had to perform a classical memory recognition task. During the recognition phase, items appeared either with the colour associated with motor fluency or with the colour associated with motor non-fluency. We used a Go-NoGo task to avoid having a confused factor (response space). Results show that items were better recognised with a colour associated with motor fluency than with a colour associated with non-motor fluency. These findings support the idea that an experience of memory is also associated with the transfer of the motor feeling of fluency linked to our interaction with the environment.
European Psychiatry, 2013
Abnormalities of embodiment of the self and of self-object relations are recently described as a ... more Abnormalities of embodiment of the self and of self-object relations are recently described as a possible common component in schizophrenia. For these patients, the world can then appear as being deprived of practical meaning, which lays its foundation through sensory-motor experiences. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that schizophrenic patients could have a deficit in sensory-motor simulation. To investigate this question, we used two Stimulus Response Compatibility tasks, in schizophrenic and control subjects. When the stimuli and the responses share the same properties, it is well known that response times are shorter than when they do not (« SRC effect »). In experiment 1, we replicate a study from Tucker & Ellis (1998) in order to explore the hypothesis that schizophrenic patients could have a deficit in sensory-motor simulation during perception of graspable objects in contrast to healthy subjects ("Object-Affordance"). In experiment 2, we hypothesize that during a Simon task, the SRC effect would be efficient in both groups. Our results show that, in a schizophrenic group, the SRC effect appears only when stimuli and responses share a spatial localization but does not when they share motor characteristics. These results allow us to conclude that the visual asymmetry does not influence the implementation of the motor potentiation, as certain authors suggest in healthy subjects. Moreover, in schizophrenia, the sensory-motor simulation impairments could emerge from a lack of relation between the object and the subject's environment more than from a difficulty in orienting attention.
Chapitre 6. Conclusions et perspectives
Cognition and Emotion, 2014
We investigated the moderating impact of the personality construct alexithymia on the ability of ... more We investigated the moderating impact of the personality construct alexithymia on the ability of younger and older adults to control the recall of negative and neutral material. We conducted two experiments using the directed forgetting paradigm with younger and older adults. Participants studied negative (Experiment 1) or neutral (Experiment 2) words. Participants were instructed to forget the first half and remember the second half of an entire list of words. Overall, we found that alexithymia impairs the ability of both younger and older adults to cognitively control negative material (through both recall and inhibition). The "externally oriented thinking" factor of alexithymia appears to play a particularly pertinent role in terms of inhibiting negative material. Furthermore, older adults recalled fewer sought after negative items, but this was not evident in terms of inhibition. In contrast, only age (older adults) negatively impacted the recall of sought after neutral items. Interestingly, alexithymia had the opposite effect: the "difficulty in identifying emotions" factor of alexithymia was associated with an increased recall of neutral items. We discuss these results in terms of alexithymia and its impact on cognitive control.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2016
The aim of this study was to provide evidence that actions performed by an individual influence t... more 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 learning phase, consisting of the association between a shape and a sound, and a test phase, examining the priming effect of the shape seen in the learning phase on the processing of target tones. The participants' motor response became a factor in Experiments 2 and 3, allowing us to observe its influence on the integration between the shape and the sound. In Experiment 1, we showed that (a) the prime associated with the sound in the learning phase had an effect on target processing and (b) the component reactivated by the prime was perceptual in nature (i.e., auditory). Experiment 2 showed that the participants' responses were faster when the association of a shape and a sound had been learned with a motor response rather than without. Experiment 3 showed that the integration process required the individual to act while learning the association between the shape and the sound; otherwise no integration effect was observed. Our results highlight the role of motor responses as a necessary criterion for the integration process to take place.
Un tema, dos llibres: segones trobades socials i sociosanitàries: envelliment actiu = Un thème, deux livres: deuxièmes rencontres sociales et socio-sanitaires: le bien vieillir
Segona trobada social i sociosanitaria proposada per l'ETFERSASO (Centre transfronterer de fo... more Segona trobada social i sociosanitaria proposada per l'ETFERSASO (Centre transfronterer de formacio i investigacio sanitaria i social) sobre el tema de l'envelliment actiu. Un autor castella i un autor frances presenten els seus llibres respectius vinculats amb aquest tema i responen a les preguntes del public. Es parla d'envelliment actiu amb la Dra. Rocio Fernandez Ballesteros, catedratica emerita de la Universitat Autonoma de Madrid, convidada pel seu llibre 'Envejecimiento activo: la contribucion de la psicologia' i Denis Brouillet, professor de psicologia a la Universitat de Montpellier i autor del llibre 'Le vieillissement cognitif normal : maintenir l'autonomie de la personne âgee'
La Musique nous ferait-elle Oublier les Différences d'Apprentissage liées à l'Age ?
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Comprend des références bibliographiques.Depuis ces vingt dernières années, dans le domaine des s... more Comprend des références bibliographiques.Depuis ces vingt dernières années, dans le domaine des sciences cognitives, les chercheurs s'interrogent sur la finalité du système cognitif : représenter le monde ou faire advenir le monde. Dans le premier cas, l'action n'a pas sa place, dans le second cas, elle est centrale. Ainsi, on en est venu à considérer que c'est l'action qui fait la cognition : je perçois et je connais le monde en fonction de mes capacités d'action. Cet ouvrage s'appuie sur des travaux expérimentaux récents pour rappeler les conditions qui ont provoqué ce changement. Il s'intéresse à l'approche énactiviste de la cognition selon laquelle la connaissance émerge de l'interaction entre un organisme et son environnement. Dès lors, il développe le rôle de l'action dans plusieurs processus cognitifs : le langage, la perception, la mémoire et l'émotion. Enfin, il envisage les conséquences de cette approche dans le domaine du handicap et propose des perspectives. Destiné aux chercheurs, enseignants et étudiants en sciences cognitives, cet ouvrage constitue la première synthèse en langue française des recherches qui ont montré que nos cognitions sont la conséquence de nos actions.Chapitre 1. L’action, le parent pauvre de la cognition Chapitre 2. Action et compréhension Chapitre 3. Action et perception visuelle Chapitre 4. Action et mémoire Chapitre 5. Action et émotion Perspective
Récupération et mémoire
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1984
La prévention des risques dans les APS peut-elle bénéficier à la sécurité routière?
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1993
Quelle finalité de la mémoire dans le vieillissement
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Memory for emotional texts about AIDS: Effects of thruth and opinion value
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1997
Psychologie cognitive
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2007
Représentation de la prévention des risques dans les Activités Physiques et Sportives
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1991
Standardisation des entretiens d'embauche : exemple d'application et propositions méthodologiques
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1985
Souvenir et représentation
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1986
Memory of Emotional Texts about AIDS: Effects of truth and opinion value
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1997
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