CerCo
Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition

SV3M

SV3M: Spatial Vision in Man, Monkey and Machine

Presentation

The SV3M team brings together teacher-researchers, researchers, and clinicians with complementary expertise, all aiming to better understand the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying spatial perception. Together, they have developed an innovative approach that is resolutely multi-model (healthy humans, patients, monkeys, and machines) and transdisciplinary (behavior, eye tracking, electroencephalography, cortical stimulation, functional imaging in human and non-human primates, and modeling). The team’s current project explores spatial cognition in natural conditions and involving one or more sensory modalities (visual, vestibular, and auditory). Their work spans both fundamental and translational research, with applications in clinical and technological fields.

Projects

InVest
Visuo-vestibular perception project
PREFER
The neural bases of primate face recognition: a comparative multimodal approach
Space-SNN
Spatial perception with event-based cameras and spiking neural networks

Publications (selection)

  • Marchand, S., Balcou, M., Picher, P., Rosito, M., Mateo, D., Vayssiere, N., … & Séverac Cauquil, A. (2025). Visuo-vestibular integration for self-motion: human cortical area V6 prefers forward and congruent stimuli. Experimental Brain Research, 243(6), 152.
  • Kong, L., Lu, D., Liang, A., Li, R., Dong, Y., Hu, T., … & Cottereau, B. R. (2025). Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
  • Rançon, U., Masquelier, T., & Cottereau, B. R. (2025). Temporal recurrence as a general mechanism to explain neural responses in the auditory system. Communications Biology, 8(1), 1456.
  • Michaud, C., Guénot, J., Faurite, C., Gallice, M., Chiquet, C., Vayssière, N., … & Cottereau, B. R. (2025). Motion processing in visual cortex of maculopathy patients. Journal of Neuroscience.
  • Marchand, S., Langlade, A., Legois, Q., & Séverac Cauquil, A. (2025). A wide-ranging review of galvanic vestibular stimulation: from its genesis to basic science and clinical applications. Experimental Brain Research, 243(5), 1-31.
  • Matta, P. M., Baurès, R., Duclay, J., & Alamia, A. (2025). Modulation of beta oscillatory dynamics in motor and frontal areas during physical fatigue. Communications biology, 8(1), 687.
  • Kong, L., Lu, D., Xu, X., Ng, L. X., Ooi, W. T., & Cottereau, B. R. (2025). EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky. In Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (pp. 1472-1484).
  • Baurès, R., Leblond, S., Dewailly, A., Cherubini, M., Subramanian, L. D., Kearney, J. K., … & Roux, F. E. (2024). Should I stay or should I go? The cerebral bases of street‐crossing decision. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 102(1), e25279.
  • Durand, J. B., Marchand, S., Nasres, I., Laeng, B., & De Castro, V. (2024). Illusory light drives pupil responses in primates. Journal of Vision, 24(7), 14-14.
  • Rançon, U., Masquelier, T., & Cottereau, B. R. (2024). A general model unifying the adaptive, transient and sustained properties of ON and OFF auditory neural responses. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(8), e1012288.
  • Li, X., Baurès, R., & Cremoux, S. (2023). Hand movements influence the perception of time in a prediction motion task. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(4), 1276-1286.
  • Xavier, F., Chouin, E., Serin-Brackman, V., & Séverac Cauquil, A. (2023). How a subclinical unilateral vestibular signal improves binocular vision. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(18), 5847.
  • Audurier, P., Héjja-Brichard, Y., De Castro, V., Kohler, P. J., Norcia, A. M., Durand, J. B., & Cottereau, B. R. (2022). Symmetry processing in the macaque visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 32(10), 2277-2290.
  • Baurès, R., Fourteau, M., Thébault, S., Gazard, C., Pasquio, L., Meneghini, G., … Durand, J. B. & Roux, F. E. (2020). Time‐to‐contact perception in the brain. Journal of Neuroscience Research.
  • De Castro, V., Smith, A. T., Beer, A. L., Leguen, C., Vayssière, N., Héjja-Brichard, Y., … Cottereau, B. R. & Durand, J. B. (2020). Connectivity of the Cingulate Sulcus Visual Area (CSv) in Macaque Monkeys. Cerebral Cortex.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Rima, S., Rapha, E., Durand, J. B., & Cottereau, B. R. (2020). Stereomotion Processing in the Nonhuman Primate Brain. Cerebral Cortex.
  • Rima, S., Cottereau, B. R., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Trotter, Y., & Durand, J. B. (2020). Wide-field retinotopy reveals a new visuotopic cluster in macaque posterior parietal cortex. Brain Structure & Function, 225(8), 2447-2461.
  • Bogdanova, O. V., Bogdanov, V. B., Durand, J. B., Trotter, Y., & Cottereau, B. R. (2020). Dynamics of the straight-ahead preference in human visual cortex. Brain Structure & Function, 225(1), 173-186.
  • Roux, F. E., Niare, M., Charni, S., Giussani, C., & Durand, J. B. (2020). Functional architecture of the motor homunculus detected by electrostimulation. The Journal of Physiology.
  • Aedo-Jury, F., Cottereau, B. R., Celebrini, S., & Séverac Cauquil, A. (2020). Antero-Posterior vs. Lateral Vestibular Input Processing in Human Visual Cortex. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 14, 43.
  • Contemori, G., Trotter, Y., Cottereau, B. R., & Maniglia, M. (2019). tRNS boosts perceptual learning in peripheral vision. Neuropsychologia, 125, 129-136.
  • Caffier, D., Luyat, M., Crémoux, S., Gillet, C., Ido, G., Barbier, F., & Naveteur, J. (2019). Do older people accurately estimate the length of their first step during gait initiation?. Experimental aging research, 45(4), 357-371.
  • Maniglia, M., Trotter, Y., & Aedo-Jury, F. (2019). TMS reveals inhibitory extrastriate cortico-cortical feedback modulation of V1 activity in humans. Brain Structure & Function, 224(9), 3399-3408.
  • Chauhan, T., Masquelier, T., Montlibert, A., & Cottereau, B. R. (2018). Emergence of binocular disparity selectivity through Hebbian learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(44), 9563-9578.
  • Roux, F. E., Djidjeli, I., & Durand, J. B. (2018). Functional architecture of the somatosensory homunculus detected by electrostimulation. The Journal of physiology, 596(5), 941-956.

Funding