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PRISME - Perception, Representation, Imagination, Space, Memory, Emotion

Team Leader : Valeria Giardino

The PRISME team at Jean Nicod Institute is built at the interface between conceptual and empirical research on perception, memory, and the study of cognitive artefacts.

It addresses four basic classes of questions :

The nature of perception, the characterization of the vehicle and of perceptual content (perceptual objects, in particular sounds, absences, shadows), the demarcation of sensory modalities and their interactions, recovery of action index in the scene, the architecture of the perceptual system.
Perspectival aspects of perception, imagination and memory.
Perceptual and memory feelings –including presence, familiarity, certainty, disorientation– and their relationship with the (sensory or representational) content of perceptual and memory experience.
The perception of / by cognitive artifacts (images, sensory substitution systems), the mobilization of resources in perceptual and memory processes involving high-level artifacts (lists, diagrams, maps, perceptual recruitment).

Two research groups have been set up within the PRISM team :

BODY, SPACE AND THE SELF (BoSS), directed by Frédérique de Vignemont
NAVIGATIONS, directed by Roberto Casati

TEAM MEMBERS

Statutory Members

Margherita Arcangeli (MCF, EHESS)
Roberto Casati (DR CNRS)
Jérôme Dokic (DE EHESS)
Valeria Giardino (CR CNRS) Team leader
Pr. Patrick Haggard (professeur extraordinaire ENS)
Frédérique de Vignemont (DR CNRS)

Young PhD

Clément Apelian (dir. F. de Vignemont)
Céline Boisserie-Lacroix (dir. J. Dokic)
Quentin Coudray (dir. Dokic)
Bastien Perroy (dir. R. Casati)
Francesco Pierini (dir. R. Casati)
Evan Josselin (dir. V. Giardino)
Jade Nijman (dir. R. Casati)

PhD Students

Parfait Blaise Aplogan (dir R. Casati)
Claudia Cano (dir J. Dokic)
FERMON Eryne (dir J. Dokic)
RICHARDSON Jay (dir M. Arcangeli)
LA PENNA Carlotta (dir R. Casati)
ABERGEL Lilya (dir J. Dokic/ L. Ferreri)
CAMPON-LINARES Victoria (dir R. Casati)
JEANNET Basile (dir. F. de Vignemont)
BUCCHERI Valentina (dir. M. Arcangeli / J. Dokic)
RICHARDSON Jay (dir M. Arcangeli / D. Perrin
CASET Elaine (dir. F. de Vignemont & P. Mammasian)

Masters

BERNARDO Lisa (dir. M. Arcangeli / V. Giardino)
BALOUKA Jeremy (dir. J. Dokic / A. Anne-Braun)
BERGER Maia (dir. M. Arcangeli / J. Fingerhut)
BONNET Mayeul (dir. F. de Vignemont)
COMBE Lisa (dir. M. Arcangeli)
DEPRET PIOLINE Mia (dir. M. Arcangeli)
FRESQUET Mathilde (dir. M. Arcangeli / F. Kammerer)
LAGUILLEZ Emilie-Jade (dir. V. Giardino / E. Pasquinelli)
MILITARU Iulia (dir. V. Giardino)
MONSAINGEON Yanis (dir. J. Dokic)
MOULET Quentin (dir. J. Dokic)
MUNIER Julie (dir. M. Arcangeli)
LAROCHE Ezra (dir. M. Arcangeli)
SALLAM Rayan (dir. J. Dokic)
SASO Elena (dir. V Giardino)
VACCARI Léano (dir. M. Arcangeli)

PROJECTS

ANR Being Surrounded : salience, valence and social relevance (PI : F. de Vignemont), 2025-2029
PSL Global Seed Fund CreAItion (“CREativité et imaginaTION par le prisme de l’Intelligence Artificielle”), M. Arcangeli (PI), J. Dokic, 2024/2025
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Proving Agency in Mathematical Practice : Practical, Social, and Mental Aspects, Y. Hamai (PI), Valeria Giardino, 2023-2026
SublimAE : The sublime and Aesthetic experiences, ANR PRC, J. Dokic (PI), M. Arcangeli, F. de Vignemont, 2018-2023
ANR EEC Education à l’Esprit critique (dir. N. Gauvrit EPHE), R. Casati, E. Pasquinelli (2019-2022)
DEV TOOLS (“Developmental trajectories of sensorimotor control of mechanical tools”, ANR, A. Farné & F. de Vignemont, R. Casati, J. Dokic, 2016-2019
Map Semantics (PSL Columbia), R. Casati, 2018-2019
Disorientation Remediation (PSL NYU), R. Casati, 2018
DIAL (PSL). R. Casati, G. Puccetti (NYU), S. Bianchini (ENSAD)
Joint agency ANR (PI : Elisabeth Pacherie) 2016-2021

PUBLICATIONS

Arcangeli, M. & Bartolomeo, P. (2025), “The aphantasia paradox : a Sartrean update”, Brain, doi:10.1093/brain/awaf233
Arcangeli, M. (2025), “Recent work on imagination”, Analysis, doi : 10.1093/analys/anaf022
Arcangeli, M. (2018), Supposition and the Imaginative Realm. A Philosophical Inquiry, Routledge.
Casati, R. (2016) “Two, then Four Modes of functioning of the mind : towards an unification of ’dual’ theories of reasoning and theories of cognitive artifacts.” To appear in J. Zacks, H. Taylor, eds., Festschrift for Barbara Tversky.
Casati, R. and Cavanagh P. (2019) The Visual World of Shadows. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press
Fernandez Velasco, P., Casati, R. (2019) "Disorientation and GIS-informed Wilderness Search and Rescue." Philosophy and GIS. Springer Nature, Forthcoming.
de Vignemont, F. (2025). A future orientation for visual experiences. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 111 (2), 451-469.
de Vignemont, F. (2023). Fifty shades of affective colouring of perception. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
de Vignemont, F. (2023), Affective bodily awareness. Elements in philosophy of mind. Cambridge University Press.
Cano, C. & Dokic, J. (2026), “Empirical psychology, evolution, and environmental aesthetics”. In G. Parsons, N. Hettinger & S. Shapshay (eds), Routledge Handbook of Nature and Environmental Aesthetics (pp. 160-173), Routledge.
Dokic, J. (2025), Cognitive Feelings : An Essay on the Affective Interfaces of the Mind, OUP
Dokic, J. (2022), Episodic remembering and affective metacognition. Acta Scientiarum 43(3).
Giardino, V. & Patras, F. (2025), “Proving with graphs. The mathematician’s toolkit”, Logique & Analyse, 266-267 (2024-2025), 285-319.
Giardino, V. (2018), ‘Tools for thought : the case of mathematics’, Endeavour 42, 172 - 179.
Giardino, V. (2018), ‘Manipulative imagination : how to move things around in mathematics’, Theoria 33/2, 345 - 360.