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Nicolas Poirel

Ph.D, HDR

Professeur

Université Paris Cité et IUF

Nicolas Poirel est Professeur de Psychologie du développement perceptif et cognitif à l’Université Paris Cité et membre honoraire de l’Institut Universitaire de France (promotion 2012-2017). Ses travaux de recherches en psychologie expérimentale et en imagerie cérébrale anatomique (IRMa) et fonctionnelle (IRMf, EEG) sont consacrés au développement et au fonctionnement cognitif, du jeune enfant à l’adulte.

PUBLICATIONS

Mathan, J., Maximino-Pinheiro, M., He, Q., Rezende, G., Menu, I.,  Tissier, C., Salvia, E., Mevel, K., Le Stanc, L., Vidal, J., Moyon, M.,  Delalande, L., Orliac, F., Poirel, N., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O.,  Chaumette, B., Borst, G., & Cachia, A. (2024). Effects of parental  socioeconomic status on offspring's fetal neurodevelopment. Cerebral Cortex, 34(11), bhae443, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae443

Doucet, G., Kruse, J.A., Hamlin, N., Peyrin, C., & Poirel, N. (2024). Neural correlates underlying local and global processing during visual search across adulthood. PLoS ONE, 19(6), e0303796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303796

Salaün, J., Borst, G., Cachia, A., Orliac, F., Vivien, D., & Poirel,  N. (2024). Effects of general anaesthesia in early childhood on local  and global visual processing: a post hoc analysis of the APEX cohort  study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 133(2), 344–350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2024.05.007

Omont-Lescieux, S., Menu, I., Salvia, E., Poirel, N., Oppenheim, C.,  Houdé, O., Cachia, A., & Borst, G. (2023). Lateralization of the  cerebral network of inhibition in children before and after cognitive  training. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101293

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Salaün, J., Chagnot, A., Cachia, A., Poirel, N., Datin-Dorrière, V., Dujarrier, C., Lemarchand, E., Rolland, M., Delalande, L., Gressens, P., Guillois, B., Houdé, O., Levard, D., Gakuba, C., Moyon, M., Naveau, M., Orliac, F., Orliaguet, G., Hanouz, J., . . . Vivien, D. (2023). Consequences of General Anesthesia in Infancy on Behavior and Brain Structure. Anesthesia & Analgesia, 136(2), 240–250. https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000006233

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Pitel, A. L., Laniepce, A., Boudehent, C., & Poirel, N. (2023).  Impaired Global Precedence Effect in Severe Alcohol Use Disorder and  Korsakoff’s Syndrome: A Pilot Exploration through a Global/Local Visual  Paradigm. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(11), 3655. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12113655

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Poirel, N. (2022). Télévision et troubles cognitifs du jeune enfant : la réponse à quatre questions clés. InMind, 2022(2).

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Doucet, G. E., Hamlin, N., Kruse, J. A., Taylor, B. K., & Poirel, N. (2022). Link between fluid/crystallized intelligence and global/local visual abilities across adulthood. Consciousness and Cognition, 106, 103429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103429

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Bouhassoun, S., Naveau, M., Delcroix, N., & Poirel, N. (2022). Approach in green, avoid in red? Examining interindividual variabilities and personal color preferences through continuous measures of specific meaning associations. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01732-5

Bouhassoun, S.*, Poirel, N.*, Hamlin, N., & Doucet, G. (2022). The forest, the trees, and the leaves across adulthood: Age-related changes on a visual search task containing three-level hierarchical stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84, 1004-1015. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02438-3

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Salaün, J. P., Poirel, N., Dahmani, S., Chagnot, A., Gakuba, C., Ali, C., Gérard , J. L., Hanouz, J. L., Orliaguet, G., & Vivien, D. (2021). Preventing the long-term effects of general anesthesia on the developing brain: how translational research can contribute. Neuroscience, 461, 172-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.02.029

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Datin-Dorrière, V., Borst, G., Guillois, B., Cachia, A., & Poirel, N. (2021). The forest, the trees, and the leaves in preterm children: the impact of prematurity on a visual search task containing three-level hierarchical stimuli. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30, 253–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01510-x

Bouhassoun, S., Gerlach, C., Borst, G., & Poirel, N. (2021). Framing the area: An efficient approach for avoiding visual interference and optimizing visual search in adolescents. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(11), 2012–2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211065011

Gerlach, C., & Poirel, N. (2020). Who's got the global advantage? Visual field differences in processing of global and local shape. Cognition, 195, 104131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104131

Orliac, F., Borst, G., Simon, G., Mevel, K., Vidal, J., Dollfus, S., Houdé, O., Peyrin, C., & Poirel, N. (2020). Cortical thickness and natural scene recognition in the child’s brain. Brain Sciences, 10(6), 329. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060329

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Salvia, E., Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Hopfensitz, A., Houdé, O., Bonnefon, J.-F., & De Neys, W. (2020). Age-related neural correlates of facial trustworthiness detection during economic interaction. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 13(1), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1037/npe0000112

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Leroux, E., Poirel, N., & Dollfus, S. (2020). Anatomical Connectivity of the Visuospatial Attentional Network in Schizophrenia : a Diffusion Tensor Imaging tractography Study. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 32(3), 266-273. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19040101

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Delalande, L., Moyon, M., Tissier, C., Dorriere, V., Guillois, B., Mevell, K., Charron, S., Salvia, E., Poirel, N., Vidal, J., Lion, S., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O.*, Cachia, A.*, & Borst, G.* (2020). Complex and subtle structural changes in prefrontal cortex induced by inhibitory control training from childhood to adolescence. Developmental Science, 23(4), e12898. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12898

Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Houdé, O., & De Neys, W. (2019). Developmental frontal brain activation differences in overcoming heuristic bias. Cortex, 117, 111–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.03.004

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Tissier, C., Linzarini, A., Allaire-Duquette, G., Mevel, K., Poirel, N., Dollfus, S., Etard, O., Orliac, F., Peyrin, C., Charron, S., Raznahan, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G., & Cachia, A. (2018). Sulcal Polymorphisms of the IFC and ACC Contribute to Inhibitory Control Variability in Children and Adults. ENeuro, 5(1), ENEURO.0197-17.2018. https://doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0197-17.2018

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Gerlach, C., & Poirel, N. (2018). Navon’s classical paradigm concerning local and global processing relates systematically to visual object classification performance. Scientific Reports, 8, 324. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18664-5

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Krakowski, C.-S., Borst, G., Vidal, J., Houdé, O., & Poirel, N. (2018). Children inhibit global information when the forest is dense and local information when the forest is sparse. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 155–167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.03.020

Camarda, A., Salvia, E., Vidal, J., Weil, B., Poirel, N.,  Houdé, O., Borst, G., & Cassotti, M. (2018). Neural basis of functional fixedness during creative idea generation: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 118(A), 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.009

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Cassotti, M., Camarda, A., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Agogué, M. (2016). Fixation effect in creative ideas generation: Opposite impacts of example in children and adults. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 19, 146-152.

Krakowski, C.S., Poirel, N., Vidal, J., Roell, M., Pineau, A., Borst, G., & Houdé O. (2016). The forest, the trees and the leaves: Differences of processing across development. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1262-1272. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000138

Lubin, A., Rossi, S., Poirel, N., Lanoë, C., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2015). The role of self-action in 2-year-old children: An illustration of the arithmetical inversion principle before formal schooling. Child Development Research, 2015(Article ID 879258), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/879258

Krakowski, C.-S., Borst, G., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2015). You can detect the trees as well as the forest when adding the leaves: Evidence from visual search tasks containing three-level hierarchical stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 157, 131-143.

Mevel, K., Poirel, N., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Simon, G., Houdé, O., De Neys, W. (2015). Bias detection: Response confidence evidence for conflict sensitivity in the ratio bias task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 227-237.

Rossi, S., Lanoë, C., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Lubin, A. (2015). When I met my brain: Participating in a neuroimaging study influences children's naïve mind-brain conceptions. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. doi:10.1016/j.tine.2015.07.001.

Habib, M., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Moutier, S., Cassotti, M. (2015). Socio-emotional context and adolescents’ decision making: The experience of regret and relief after social comparison. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 81-91.

Poirel, N., Krakowski, C.-S., Sayah, S., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2014). Do you want to see the tree? Ignore the forest. Inhibitory control during local processing: A negative priming study of local-global processing. Experimental Psychology, 61, 205-214.

Cassotti, M., Aïte, A., Osmont, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2014). What have we learned about the processes involved in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) from developmental studies? Frontiers in Psychology, section Decision Neuroscience, 5, 915. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00915

Poirel, N., Leroux, E., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Simon, G. (2014). Changes in cortical thickness in 6-year-old children open their mind to a global vision of the world. BioMed Research International, 2014, 362349. doi: 10.1155/2014/362349

Agogué, M., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Cassotti, M. (2014). The impact of age and training on creativity: a design-theory approach to study fixation effects. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 11, 33-41.

Borst, G.*, Cachia, A.*, Vidal., J., Simon, G., Fischer, C., Pineau, A., Poirel, N., Mangin, J.-F., Houdé, O. (2014). Folding of the anterior cingulate cortex partially explains inhibitory control during childhood: A longitudinal study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 126-135.

Agogué, M., Kazakçi, A., Hatchuel, A., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., Poirel, N., Cassotti, M. (2014). The impact of type of examples on originality: Explaining fixation and stimulation effects. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 48, 1-12.

Simon, G., Lanoë, C., Poirel, N., Rossi, S., Lubin, A., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2013). Dynamics of the anatomical changes that occur in the brains of schoolchildren as they learn to read. PLoS ONE, 8(12), e81789. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081789.

Borst, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Cassotti, M., Houdé, O. (2013). Inhibitory control efficiency in a Piaget-like class-inclusion task in school-age children and adults: A developmental negative priming study. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1366-1374.

Rossi, S., Lubin, A., Simon, G., Lanoë, C., Poirel, N., Cachia, A., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2013). Structural brain correlates of executive engagement in working memory: Children's inter individual differences are reflected in the anterior insular cortex. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1145-1150.

Beaucousin, V., Simon, G., Cassotti, M., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2013). Global interference during early visual processing: ERP evidence from a rapid global/local selective task. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 539. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00539

Lubin, A., Rossi, S., Simon, G., Lanoë, C., Leroux, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2013). Numerical transcoding proficiency in 10-year-old schoolchildren is associated with grey-matter interindividual differences: A voxel-based morphometry study. Frontiers in Educational Psychology, 4, 197. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00197.

Cassotti, M., Habib, M., Poirel, N., Aïte, A., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2012). Positive emotional context eliminates the framing effect in decision-making. Emotion, 12, 926-931.

Guibé, M., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Dickel, L. (2012). Food imprinting and visual generalization in embryos and newly hatched cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). Animal Behaviour, 84, 213-217.

Poirel, N., Cassotti, M., Beaucousin, V., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2012). Pleasant emotional induction broadens the visual world of young children. Cognition Emotion, 26, 186-191.

Aïte, A*., Cassotti, M*., Rossi, S., Poirel, N., Lubin, A., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2012). Is human decision-making under ambiguity guided by loss frequency regardless of the costs? A developmental study using the Soochow Gambling Task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 286-294.

Borst, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Cassotti, M., Houdé, O. (2012). Inhibitory control in number-conservation and class-inclusion tasks: A neo-Piagetian inter-tasks priming study. Cognitive Development, 27, 283-298.

Poirel, N.*, Borst, G.*, Simon, G., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2012). Number conservation is related to children's prefrontal inhibitory control: An fMRI study of a Piagetian task. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40802. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040802

Houdé, O., Pineau, A., Leroux, G., Poirel, N., Perchey, G., Lanoë, C., Lubin, A., Turbelin, M.-R., Rossi, S., Simon, G., Delcroix, N., Lamberton, F., Vigneau, M., Wisniewski, G., Vicet, J.-R., Mazoyer, B. (2011). Functional MRI study of Piaget's conservation-of-number task in preschool and school-age children: A neo-Piagetian approach. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 332-346.

Poirel, N., Simon, G., Cassotti, M., Leroux, G., Perchey, G., Lanoë, C., Lubin, A., Turbelin, M.-R., Rossi, S., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2011). The shift from local to global visual processing in 6-year-old children is associated with grey matter loss. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20879. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020879

Poirel, N., Vidal, M., Pineau, A., Lanoë, C., Leroux, G., Lubin, A., Turbelin, M.-R., Berthoz, A., Houdé, O. (2011). Evidence of different developmental trajectories for length estimation according to egocentric and allocentric viewpoints in children and adults. Experimental Psychology, 58, 142-146.

Beaucousin, V., Cassotti, M., Simon, G., Pineau, A., Kostova, M., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2011). ERP evidence of a meaningfulness impact on visual global/local processing: When meaning captures attention. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1258-1266.

Poirel, N., Brazo, P., Turbelin, M.-R., Lecardeur, L., Simon, G., Houdé, O., Pineau, A., Dollfus, S. (2010). Meaningfulness and global-local processing in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3062-3068.

Lubin, A., Poirel, N., Rossi, S., Lanoë, C., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2010). Pedagogical effect of action on arithmetic performances in Wynn-like tasks solved by 2-year-olds. Experimental Psychology, 57, 405-411.

Lubin, A., Poirel, N., Rossi, S., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2009). Math in actions: Actor mode reveals the true arithmetic abilities of French-speaking two-year-olds in a magic task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103, 376-385.

Poirel, N., Mellet, E., Houdé, O., Pineau, A. (2008). First came the trees, then the forest: Developmental changes during childhood in the processing of visual local-global patterns according to the meaningfulness of the stimuli. Developmental Psychology, 44, 245-253.

Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Mellet, E. (2008). What does the nature of the stimuli tell us about the Global Precedence Effect? Acta Psychologica, 127(1), 1-11

Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Jobard, G., Mellet, E. (2008). Seeing the Forest Before the Trees Depends on Individual Field- Dependency Characteristics. Experimental Psychology, 55(5), 328-333.

Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Mellet, E. (2006). Implicit identification of irrelevant local objects interacts with global/local processing of hierarchical stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 122(3), 321-336.

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