The Institute is its people — a deliberately small group of researchers, fellows, and affiliates who collaborate across disciplines and methods.
A cognitive neuroscientist whose career has been shaped by one stubborn question: how does the brain turn sensory noise into a coherent experience of the world? Trained in Paris and Montréal, Lucie joined the Institute in 2009 and founded its neuroimaging program, which she has directed since 2014. Her current work applies layer-resolved fMRI to test predictive-coding accounts of perception — asking whether the hierarchical feedback signals that theories predict can actually be seen in the cortex. She is also one of the architects of the Institute's open-science policy.
We recruit postdoctoral fellows and research staff year-round, and host visiting scholars for terms of three months or more.