PARAGRAPHE - Psychology and Information and Communication Sciences

The Paris 8 - UCP joint supervision, established at the end of 2008, offers Paragraphe members affiliated with Paris 8 University and CY Cergy Paris Université the opportunity to synergistically develop fundamental and applied research issues by responding to major societal challenges such as educational issues, the use of digital technology and lifelong learning.

Research topics of the Learning-Development-Cognition Area of the PARAGRAPHE Laboratory

Study of the cognitive, affective and conative processes involved in lifelong learning, and particularly in learning at school, is the central theme developed in the Learning-Development-Cognition Area of the PARAGRAPHE Laboratory. The research is concerned with associating fundamental research issues with topics with major societal challenges such as: the influence of the context on reasoning and problem-solving strategies, the expression of cognitive flexibility in children and adults, the impact of cognitive load on performance, the role of motivation and emotions in learning, the processes of memory evocation and semantic approximations, the development of digital cognition and language, the diagnosis of students’ difficulties, or the articulation between knowledge structures, representations and comprehension processes. These projects lead to the development and evaluation of educational devices (human, virtual-digital) aimed at the development and acquisition of knowledge.

Area head: Prof.   Evelyne Clément

Current projects