Michel Desmurget is a French researcher and writer specializing in cognitive neuroscience.
Michel Desmurget is a French researcher and writer specializing in cognitive neuroscience.
Son of a French father and a German mother, Desmurget is a doctor in neurosciences. [1] He works at the Marc Jeannerod Institute of Cognitive Sciences, [2] which is jointly financed by the (French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University of Lyon.
He lived in the United States for nearly eight years, working at several American universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Emory University, and the University of California, San Francisco. In 2011, he was appointed "directeur de recherche" (an academic rank equivalent to full professor) at the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale. [3] [4] [5]
His research covers the effects that television and exposure to screens of all kinds produce on our health and our cognitive development, especially in childhood and adolescence. [6]
He wrote TV lobotomie: La vérité scientifique sur les effets de la télévision (2011), which denounces the harmful effects of television on health and cognitive development, especially in children. He has also studied the effects of various slimming diets on the body and recounts his experience in L'Anti-régime, maigrir pour de bon (2018). [7]
The book La Fabrique du crétin digital: Les dangers des écrans pour nos enfants (2019) (Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children) was described by France Inter radio as a "public health book", and was awarded the Femina Prize for essay in 2019. [7]
Michel Chion is a French film theorist and composer of experimental music.
Élise Lucet is a French journalist and television host. Known for her investigative journalism work on shows such as Pièces à Conviction, Cash Investigation and Envoyé spécial, she has been dubbed France's "incorruptible journalist". In 2008, she was named Knight of the Legion of Honour. Lucet's work for Cash Investigation garnered her and her crew around twenty international awards including a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for their investigation on the Panama Papers.
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
Catherine Perret is associate professor of modern and contemporary aesthetics and theory at Nanterre University. She obtained her Ph.D. in philosophy and is known for her work on Walter Benjamin, most notably by her book Walter Benjamin ou la critique en effet. Dr. Perret was the director of the Art of Exhibition Department at Paris X. She served as a program director at the Collège International de Philosophie from 1995 to 2001. She is a recipient of the prestigious title Chevalier des Palmes académiques. She collaborated with Bernard Stiegler in Ars Industrialis. Dr. Perret is currently responsible for the Centre de recherche sur l'art, philosophie, esthétique at Paris X.
Marc Jeannerod was a neurologist, a neurophysiologist and an internationally recognized expert in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology. His research focuses on the cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms underpinning motor control, motor cognition, the sense of agency, and more recently language and social cognition. Jeannerod's work bridges with elegance and rigor various levels of analysis, ranging from neuroscience to philosophy of mind, with clear implications for the understanding of a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders, especially schizophrenia.
The École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle is a French private film school which specialises in the training of cinema, television, photography, sound engineering and digital art through the DESRA diploma, the DESTS and the DESFA.
Igor Youriévitch Bogdanoff and Grégoire "Grichka" Youriévitch Bogdanoff, alternatively spelled Bogdanov, were French twin television presenters, producers, and essayists who presented a variety of programmes in science fiction, popular science, and cosmology. They were involved in a number of controversies, the most notable being the Bogdanov affair. It brought to light how they received Ph.D. degrees based on largely nonsensical physics papers that were nonetheless peer-reviewed and published in reputable scientific journals. In their later years, they were also the subject of numerous internet memes, particularly in the cryptocurrency community.
Serge Tisseron is a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He holds a PhD in Psychology. He is a senior research fellow at University Paris VII Denis Diderot. He is a member of Centre of Psychoanalysis Research, Medicine and Society at Université Paris VII (CRPMS). He studies the relationships between youth, the media and images and the effect of information and communication technology on young people. He is also an illustrator and a photographer.
Jean-Michel Cohen is a French nutritionist and author, best known for the Parisian Diet.
René Schérer was a French philosopher and professor emeritus of the universite de Paris VIII.
This article is a partial translation of the Cash investigation article on the French Wikipedia. The image and some of the information it contains were drawn from there.
Stéphane Hoffmann is a French writer.
Élise Fischer was a French writer, journalist and novelist from Lorraine.
The prix Vérité is a French literary award bestowed by the commune of Le Cannet in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France..
Sébastien Point is a French physicist, engineer, researcher and specialist in science and technology who specialises in lighting with a particular focus on the biological and health effects of blue light.
Andrée Michel was a French sociologist, feminist, anticolonialist, and antimilitarist.
Danièle Brun was a French academic and psychologist. She was a member of the Espace analytique.
Divina Frau-Meigs is a Moroccan-born sociologist of media and professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris III in France where her areas of research include, cultural diversity, dynamic identities, human/children's rights, internet governance, media education, media matrices, media in English-speaking countries, and risky content. Her research has also included media content and risk behaviors, the reception and use of Information and communications technology, and American studies. She is the chair of "Savoir-devenir in sustainable digital development" for UNESCO and coordinator of "TRANSLIT" for the Agence nationale de la recherche.
Michel Oliver is a French chef. Oliver is the son of Raymond Oliver. Michel Oliver is best known for presenting the cooking television show, La vérité est au fond de la marmite.
Christine Eugénie Kelly, in Lamentin (Guadeloupe), is a French radio and TV presenter, journalist, and writer.
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