Solène Kalénine

Post-doctoral research project at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia:
Action and conceptual knowledge about objects

PhD research project: Different ways to form concepts depending on individuals and object categories.

The project focuses on the cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms at the basis of conceptual development and processing. Using a differential approach, we suggest that several processes could play a key role in conceptual developmental and that their relative involvement may depend on individuals and object categories. If both perceptual and contextual/functional relationships between objects help to form concepts, then their contribution could vary depending on the kind of interactions we have with objects. In line with embodied theories, we suggest that different sensorimotor experience with objects may lead to different ways to form concepts. Behavioural and neuroimaging (fMRI) studies are used to specify the links between perception, action and concepts in a developmental perspective.

Conceptual development - Differential psychology - Embodied cognition - Neuroimagery

Kalénine, S., Peyrin, C., Pichat, C., Segebarth, C., Bonthoux, F. & Baciu, M. (2009). The sensory-motor specificity of taxonomic and thematic conceptual relations: A behavioral and fMRI study. Neuroimage, 44, 1152-1162. (pdf)

Kalénine, S., Bonthoux, F. & Borghi, A.M. (2009). How action and context priming influence categorization: a developmental study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 717-730. (pdf)

Kalénine, S. (2009). Le rôle de l'action dans l'accès aux concepts d'objets. Apport de la neuropsychologie et des neurosciences cognitives. Revue de Neuropsychologie, 1(2), 1-9. (pdf)

Kalénine, S., & Bonthoux, F. (2008). Object manipulability affects children’s and adults’ conceptual processing, 15 (3), Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 767-672. (pdf)

Bonthoux, F., & Kalénine, S. (2007). Superordinate categorization in preschoolers. Cognitie, Creier & Comportament/Cognition, Brain & Behavior, 11, 713-731. (pdf)

Kalénine, S. & Bonthoux, F. (2007). Adults differently process taxonomic and thematic semantic relations according to object kinds.  Proceedings of the 17^th European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece (pp.95-100).

Kalénine, S., & Bonthoux, F. (2007). Le développement de la catégorisation: L'impact différencié de deux types d'apprentissage en fonction des catégories d'objets, naturels ou fabriqués. Psychologie et Education, 1, 33-45.

Kalénine, S., & Bonthoux, F. (2006). Individual preferences affect differently the formation of living and non living superordinate concepts at 3-years. Current Psychology Letters, 19(2). http://cpl.revues.org/document1066.html

Roll-Carpentier, N., Bonthoux, F. & Kalénine, S. (2006). Vieillissement de l’organisation conceptuelle : accès aux propriétés des objets naturels et fabriqués. L’Année Psychologique, 106, 191-212.

Kalénine, S., & Bonthoux, F. (2007). Specific school interventions modulate preschoolers’ superordinate taxonomic categorization as a function of object kinds. 37^th Annual Meeting Of the Jean Piaget Society, 31 May – 20 June 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Kalénine, S., & Bonthoux, F. (2007). Adults differently process taxonomic and thematic semantic relations according to object kinds. 17^th European Cognitive Science Conference, 23 - 27 May 2007, Delphi, Greece.

Kalénine, S., & Bonthoux, F. (2006). Différences inter- et intra-individuelles dans la construction des concepts d’objets à 3 ans. XVIIèmes Journées Internationales de Psychologie Différentielle, 19-21 septembre 2006, Paris, France.

Kalénine, S., Peyrin, C., Pichat, C., Segebarth, C., Bonthoux, F. & Baciu, M. (2009). Neural specificity of manipulable and non-manipulable object concepts. Human Brain Mapping, 18-23 June 2009, San Francisco, USA.

Kalénine, S., Bonthoux, F., & Borghi, A.M. (2008). How action and context priming influence categorization: a developmental study. CAOs 08, 24-27 April 2008, Rovereto, Italy.

Developmental psychology, Licence 2

Differential psychology, Licence 2

Analysis of experimental data, Licence 2

Categorization, Licence 3

PhD in Cognitive Psychology supervised by Pr Bonthoux and Pr Baciu (Grenoble, 2008)

Master 2 Research  “Cognitive modelling: NeuroCognition and Social Cognition” (Grenoble, 2005)

Master 2 Professional “Neuropsychology”(Chambéry, 2004)