Edouard Gentaz
Director
Edouard Gentaz has been Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva since August 2012 and CNRS Research Director at the Grenoble Laboratory of Psychology and NeuroCognition since 2009. He defended his psychology thesis in 1997 under the supervision of Professor Yvette Hatwell at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale (CNRS associate) at the Université Pierre Mendès France in Grenoble. After working under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Viviani, he joined the CNRS as a research fellow from 1999 to 2004 at the Cognition and Development Laboratory (CNRS associate) at the Université René Descartes-Paris V, then from 2005 to 2008 at the Psychology and NeuroCognition Laboratory (CNRS associate) at the University of Grenoble. His research focuses in particular on the development of early skills in babies born at term or prematurely, the development of tactile and visual perception, basic school learning (reading, writing and mathematics), and the psychological development of blind children. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 articles in scientific journals and several dozen book chapters or books.
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