Our disciplines

Our disciplines

The aim of the FYSSEN Foundation is to encourage all forms of scientific inquiry into cognitive mechanisms, including thought and reasoning, which underlie animal and humain behaviour; their biological and cultural bases, and phylogenetic and ontogenetic development.

It supports research aimed at bringing rigor and precision to this fundamental field, which draws on the following disciplines:

Social Anthropology

Cognitive aspects of the representation of both natural and cultural environments. An analysis of their construction principles and transfer mechanisms.
An analysis of the forms of social organization and their technological systems (knowledge, know-how, transfer mechanisms).

 

Scientific Committee members of the Foundation

  • Mr Thomas WIDLOK(Social Anthropology) Professor of Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany
  • Mr Jonathan LANMAN (Anthropology) Professor, Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen’s University, Belfast

Ethology – Psychology

Nature and development of the cognitive processes in man and animals, both ontogenetic and phylogenetic.

 

Scientific Committee members of the Foundation

  • Monsieur Nicolas CLAIDIERE (Primatology)
    Research Director at the Research Center for Psychology and Neuroscience, Marseille, France
  • Mrs Manuela PIAZZA (Cognitive Neurosciences) Center for Mind/ Brain Sciences (CIMeC), Roverto (TN), University of Trento, Italy
  • Mrs Audrey DUSSUTOUR (Ethology)
    Research Director, CNRS, CRCA, Toulouse, France

Cognitive Neurosciences

Neurobiological bases of cognitive processes, their embryonic and post-natal development, and their elementary mechanisms.

 

Scientific Committee members of the Foundation

  • Mr Brice BATHELLIER (Neurobiology)Research Director CNRS, Neurobiology, the Hearing Institute, Paris, France
  • Mr Jean Antoine GIRAULT (Neurobiology) INSERM Research Director “Classe Exceptionnelle” (DRCE), Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris, France
  • Mrs Angela SIRIGU (Neurobiology) CNRS Director of Research, Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science Marc Jeannerod, Bron, France
  • Mr Manos TSAKIRIS (Cognitive Neurosciences)Professor at Royal Holloway, The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK

Human paleontology – Archaeology

Origin and evolution of the human brain and human artefacts.

 

Scientific Committee members of the Foundation

  • Mr Shadreck CHIRIKURE (Archaeology)
    Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science & Director Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, UK
  • Madame Anne DELAGNES (Archaeology) Research Director at CNRS PACEA, University of Bordeaux, France