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Lionel NaccacheFrance

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A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Lionel Naccache holds a PhD in neuroscience from Paris VI University. His thesis, written under the supervision of Prof. Stanislas Dehaene, is entitled «The Subliminal Perception of Numbers : Psychological Properties and Functional Brain Imaging of Unconscious Cognitive Processes». Trained as a neurologist, he became a registered practioner in 1998. He now works both as a physician in the unit for nervous system diseases at Pitié – Salpêtrière in Paris and as a professor at Paris VI University. He is the co-director of a research lab exploring the psychological properties and neural bases of consciousness at the CRICM.

>BooksPerdons-nous connaissance ? De la mythologie à la neurologie [Are We Losing ‘Knowledge’ ? From Mythology to Neurology] (Odile Jacob, 2010) Le Nouvel Inconscient. Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences [The New Inconscious. Freud, the Christopher Columbus of Neurosciences] (Odile Jacob, 2006)Quatre exercices de pensée juive pour cerveaux réfléchis. Le judaïsme à la lumière des neurosciences [Four Exercises in Jewish Thought for Thoughtful Brains. Judaism in the Light of Neurosciences] (In press, 2003)

>Chapters in books “Visual Consciousness : An Updated Neurological Tour” in Steven Laureys, Giulio Tononi, The neurology of consciousness : cognitive neuroscience and neuropathology (Academic Press, 2009)

“With this book, I invite you to embark on a new odyssey, under the auspices of cognitive neurosciences. Beyond analogies and oppositions between the Freudian unconscious and the cognitive unconscious, I will show that the very posture of the Freudian discourse is an essential in revealing our faculty to construct our conscious thought. This gate to conscience Freud unwittingly discovered can today be fully understood in the light of recent experiments in the field of cognitive neurosciences. This new

interpretation of the Freudian unconscious, combined with the exposition of the contemporary cognitive unconscious, delineates the New Unconscious that gives its name to this essay. ” L.N.

Le Nouvel Inconscient. Freud, le Christophe Colomb des neurosciences [The New Inconscious. Freud, the Christopher Columbus of Neurosciences] (Odile Jacob, 2006)

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Bibliography

>Articles “A direct intracranial record of emotions evoked by subliminal words”, with R. Gaillard, C. Adam, D. Hasboun, S. Clemenceau, M. Baulac, S. Dehaene and L. Cohen (PNAS, 2005)“Psychology. Is she conscious?” (Science, 2006, vol. 313, n° 5792)“Neural signature of the conscious processing of auditory regularities”, with Bekinschtein, T.A., S. Dehaene, B. Rohaut, F. Tadel and L. Cohen (PNAS, 2009, vol 106, n° 5)“Converging intracranial markers of conscious access”, with Gaillard, R., S. Dehaene, C. Adam, S. Clemenceau, D. Hasboun, M. Baulac, L. Cohen (PLoS Biol, 2009, vol. 7, n° 3)“Probing consciousness with event-related potentials in the vegetative state”, with F. Faugeras, B. Rohaut, N. Weiss, T.A. Bekinschtein, D. Galanaud, L. Puybasset, F. Bolgert, C. Sergent, L. Cohen and S. Dehaene (Neurology, 2011, vol. 77, n° 3)

Friday October 12th 2012 / New York Live Arts

Splendors and Miseries of (Un)conscious Thoughts: A Story of Psychology and Neuroscience

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Perdons-nous connaissance ? De la mythologie à la neurologie [Are We Losing ‘Knowledge’ ? From Mythology to Neurology] (Odile Jacob, 2010)

“Are we losing ‘knowledge’ ?” meaning, are we losing the sense of what knowledge is while claiming to be the “so-ciety of knowledge” ? Even though for the past three milleniums knowledge has been perceived as both vital and dangerous, we no longer regard it as dangerous in our occidental cultures.

Who still remembers that knowledge used to be seen as a threat ?Should breaking with our heritage thus be seen as progress or regression, a downfall or an ele-vation ? Mythology and neurology, as sources of “knowledge on knowledge”, are extremely pre-cious tools for the resolution of this unprece-dented paradox. This brilliant essay exploring the multiple di-mensions of our lives helps us understand why knowledge should not be seen as specialists’ exclusive domain, but as everybody’s business.

Quatre exercices de pensée juive pour cerveaux réfléchis. Le judaïsme à la lumière des neurosciences [Four Exercises in Jewish Thought for Thoughtful Brains. Judaism in the Light of Neurosciences] (In press, 2003)

Jewish thought has always been occupied with ques-tions directly dealing with the human mind and beha-viour : the “duty of remem-brance”, the links between religious rites and the study of the Bible, caring for others and how they may see us, or the relations between soul, body and mind.

How can the cognitive approaches to memory, language, perception, learning, conscience or desire shed light on the Jewish way of thinking ?