Catherine Wacongne Post doc candidate
52bis avenue du bois de verrières 92160 Antony H +336 67 95 17 18 B
[email protected] 27 years old
Education 2010 – now PhD in computational neurosciences, CEA-INSERM cognitive Neuroimaging Unit University Paris 6 and College de France (since 2013). Modeling and neuroimaging of temporal regularity learning
2009 – 2010 Master 2 cognitive science, Cogmaster (Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Université Paris V). With highest honors
2008 – 2009 "year off", Ecole Normale Superieure. Year out of the university curriculum, dedicated to the acquisition of mathematical and theoretical tools from statistical physics for computational neuroscience. Validation of 36 ECTS including statistical physics, maths for physicists, advanced course in theoretical neuroscience, biophysics, movement planning in robotics. Internship in Stanislas Dehaene’s lab during the second semester.
2007 – 2008 Master 1 (M. Sc.) in Neurobiology, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) . 2006 – 2007 Licence (eq to Bachelor of Scicence) in Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris). With honors
Summer Schools August 2012 Methods in Computational Neuroscience, Marine Biological Laboratory - Woods Hole - United States. . August 2010
15th Advanced Course in Computationnal Neuroscience (ACCN), Bernstein Center - Freiburg, Germany.
Research Experience 2009 – now PhD in computational neurosciences, CEA-INSERM cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, under the supervision of Stanislas Dehaene, Gif Sur Yvette. Modeling and neuroimaging of temporal regularity learning – Modeling of cognitive processes using spiking neuron models constrained by scientific literature – magnetoencéphalography (MEG) and electroencephalographie (EEG) in healthy subjects : ERP analysis, decoding – Collaboration with Karim Benchenane to develop an experimental test of the neuronal predictions of the mismatch negativity model (MMN) in mice – Initiation to neuromorphic computing in collaboration with Karleinz Meier and BrainScales project. Inititation to spiking neuron computing using the SpiNNaker chips in collaboration with Ryad Benosman. – Lab meeting organization (since 2011). – Consultant for the application of the du Human Brain Project to the European Flagship.
February Master Internship, Laboratory of Sensory Processing- EPFL, under the supervision of June 2008 Carl Petersen, Lausanne. Study of cortical motor control by motor and sensory cortex using microstimulation in awake mice. – in vivo microstimulation – wisker tracking by automatic image analysis – patch clamp, Voltage sensitive Dye (VSD) and two-photon imaging.
June–July internship, CEA-INSERM cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, under the supervision of Stanislas 2007 Dehaene, Gif Sur Yvette. Neurobiology of reading (fMRI) and behavioral experiments on rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP).
Publications 2013 J.R. King, F. Faugeras, A. Gramfort, A. Schurger, I. El Karoui, J. Sitt, B. Rohaut, Catherine Wacongne, E. Labyt, T. Bekinschtein, L. Cohen, L. Naccache, and S. Dehaene, Single-trial decoding of auditory novelty responses facilitates the detection of residual consciousness, NeuroImage. 2012 Catherine Wacongne, Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Stanislas Dehaene, A Neuronal Model of Predictive Coding Accounting for the Mismatch Negativity, Journal of Neuroscience, 32(11) :3665–3678. 2011 Catherine Wacongne, Etienne Labyt, Virginie Van Wassenhove, Tristan Bekinschtein, Lionel Naccache, and Stanislas Dehaene, Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(51) :20754–59. 2010 Ferenc Matyas, Varun Sreenivasan, Fred Marbach, Catherine Wacongne, Boglarka Barsy, Celine Mateo, Rachel Aronoff, and Carl C. H. Petersen, Motor Control by Sensory Cortex, Science, 330(6008) :1240–1243.
Invited talks and organized symposia 5 Oct 2013 Symposium on "Prediction in the perception-action cycle : Data, Theories and computational models, A neuronal model of predictive coding accounting for the mismatch negativity, 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence . 14 Sept 2013 Symposium on Top-down modulation of sensory processing and predictive coding, Predictive coding, mismatch negativity and auditory omission : Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex, Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Neuroscience, Belo Horizonte. 18 July 2013 2nd Workshop on "Free Energy Principle : Unifying theory of brain function", Predictive coding in the auditory cortex : a joint modeling and imaging approach, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Berlin. 11 July 2012 Fabelier, The bayesian brain, Paris. 4 July 2012 1st workshop on Free Energy Principle, Predictive coding, MMN and auditory omission : Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex, UCL, Londres. 22 March 2012 Franco-Scottish Science Seminar Series , A neuronal model of predictive coding accounting for the Mismatch Negativity, Royal Society of Edinbourg. 5 Oct 2011 ESS workshop, Neuronal model of Mismatch Negativity, Dresden.
IT Langages Matlab (including fieldtrip et SPM toolboxes), Python(including PyNN, pygame), css, html, R (statistics), LateX, eprime Systems Windows XP/Vista/Seven/, Linux (Debian stable, Ubuntu) Softwares Microsoft office, Open Office, Adobe Illustrator
Languages French native speaker
English fluent German basic knowledge
Other Skills Teaching Teacher assistant at University Paris 6 - Biology volunteer tutor and general secretary in an association for equal oportunities in higher education for students coming from disavantaged social background or geographically isolated regions
