Koechlin, Etienne (DR1) Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, DEC, ENS first floor, right 29 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris, France phone  +33(0)144322640 fax  +33(0)144322642 email  etienne.koechlin -AT- upmc.fr

Current Projects

	Information value learning in human prefrontal cortex
	executive and motivational control during decision making

Publications

	Collins, A. and Koechlin, E., Reasoning, learning, and creativity: frontal lobe function and human decision-making., PLoS Biology, 10(3): e1001293. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001293, (2012).
	Summerfield, C., Behrens, T., and Koechlin, E., Perceptual classification in a rapidly-changing environment, Neuron, 71, 725-736 (2011).
	Koechlin, E., Frontal pole function: what is specifically human?, Trends in Cognitive Science, 15, 241 (2011).
	Chambon, V., Domenech, P., Pacherie, E., Koechlin, E., Paraduc, B., and Farrer, C., What Are They Up To? The Role of Sensory Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Action Understanding, PloS One, 6, e17133 (2011).
	Barbalat, G., Chambon, V., Domenech, P., Ody, C., Koechlin, E., Franck, N., and Farrer, C., Impaired hierarchical control within the lateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia, Biological Psychiatry, inpress, (2011).
	Charron, S. and Koechlin, E., Divided Representation of Concurrent Goals in the Human Frontal Lobes, Science, 328 (5976), 360 - 363 (2010).
	Summerfield, C. and Koechlin, E., Economic value biaises uncertain perceptual choices in the parietal and prefrontal cortices, Frontiers in Human Neurosciences, 4, 208 (2010).
	Kouneiher, F., Charron, S., and Koechlin, E., Motivation and cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex, Nature Neuroscience, 12, (2009).
	Hyafil, A., Summerfield, C., and Koechlin, E., Two mechanisms for task switching in the prefrontal cortex, Journal of Neuroscience, 29 (16), 5135-42 (2009).
	Barbalat, G., Chambon, V., Franck, N., Koechlin, E., and Farrer, C., Organization of cognitive control within the lateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia, Arch Gen Psychiatry, 66 (4), 377-86 (2009).
	Collins, A. and Koechlin, E., A computational theory of prefrontal executive control, Frontiers in Neurosciences, PCS neuroscience conference, (2009).
	Collins, A. and Koechlin, E., A computational theory of prefrontal executive control, Front. Syst. Neurosci, doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.06.2009.03.265, (2009).
	Dreher, J.C., Koechlin, E., Tierney, M., and Grafman, J., Damage to the fronto-polar cortex is associated with impaired multitasking, PLoS ONE, 3 (9), e3227 (2008).
	Summerfield, C. and Koechlin, E., a neural representation of prior information during perceptual inference, Neuron, 59 (2), 336-347 (2008).
	Chambon, V., Franck, N., Koechlin, E., Fakra, E., Ciuperca, G., Azorin, J.M., and Farrer, C., The architecture of cognitive control in schizophrenia, Brain, 131 (pt. 4), 962-70 (2008).
	Koechlin, E. and Hyafil, A., Anterior prefrontal function and the limits of human decision-making, Science, 18 (5850), 594-8 (2007).
	Jubault, T., Ody, C., and Koechlin, E., Serial organization of human behavior in the inferior parietal cortex, Journal of neuroscience, 27 (41), 11028-36 (2007).
	Koechlin, E. and Summerfield, C., An information theoretical approach to prefrontal executive function, Trends Cogn Sci, 11 (6), 229-35 (2007).
	Koechlin, E., The cognitive architecture of the human lateral prefrontal cortex, Attention & Performance XXII, (2007).
	Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Greene, M., Koechlin, E., Mangels, J., and Hirsch, J., Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex, Science, 314 (5803), 1311-4 (2006).
	Koechlin, E. and Jubault, T., Broca s area and the hierarchical organization of human behavior, Neuron, 50 (6), 963-74 (2006).
	Koechlin, E., L archtiecture du controle executif dans le cortex prefrontal, numero special "decouverte" de La Lettre aux Neurologues, (2004).
	Koechlin, E., Ody, C., and Kouneiher, F., The architecture of cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex, Science, 302 (5648), 1181-5 (2003).
	Dreher, J.C., Koechlin, E., Ali, S.O., and Grafman, J., The roles of timing and task-order during task switching, NeuroImage, 17, 95-109 (2003).
	Koechlin, E., Basso, G., Pietrini, P., Panzer, S., and Grafman, J., The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition, Foundations of Social Neuroscience, (2002).
	Guigon, E., Koechlin, E., and Burnod, Y., Short term memory as a basis for both working memory and long term memory, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, (2001).
	Koechlin, E., Corrado, G., Pietrini, P., and Grafman, J., Dissociating the functional properties of the medial and lateral anterior prefrontal cortex, Brain and Cognition, 47, 93-97 (2001).
	Koechlin, E., Corrado, G., Pietrini, P., and Grafman, J., Dissociating the role of the medial and lateral anterior prefrontal cortex in human planning, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97, 7651-7656 (2000).
	Zalla, T., Koechlin, E., Pietrini, P., Basso, G., Aquino, P., and Grafman, J., Differential amygdala activation during winning and loosing performance, European journal of neuroscience, 12, 1-7 (2000).
	Koechlin, E., Basso, G., Pietrini, P., Panzer, S., and Grafman, J., The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition, Year Book of Psychiatry & Applied Mental Health, (2000).
	Koechlin, E., Basso, G., Pietrini, P., Panzer, S., and Grafman, J., The role of the anterior prefrontal cortex in human cognition, Nature, 399, 148-151 (1999).
	Koechlin, E., Anton, J.L., and Burnod, Y., Role of lateral interaction for motion processing and object segmentation in area MT, Biological cybernetics, 80, 25-34 (1999).
	Koechlin, E., Naccache, L., Carey-Bloch, E., and Dehaene, S., Exploring the modularity of numerical representations: Double comparison and masked priming experiments, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 6, 1882-1905 (1999).
	Burnod, Y., Baraduc, P., Battaglia-Mayer, A., Guigon, E., Koechlin, E., Ferraina, S., Lacquqniti, F., and Caminiti, R., Parieto-frontalcoding of reaching: an integrated framework, Experimental brain research, 129, 325-346 (1999).
	Koechlin, E., Dehaene, S., and Mehler, J., Numerical transformation in five month-old human infants, Mathematical Cognition, 3, 89-104 (1999).
	Dehaene, S., Naccache, L., Leclecrh, G., Koechlin, E., Mueller, M., Lambertz, G.D., Moortele, V.D., and Bihan, D.L., Imaging unconscious priming, Nature, 395, 597-600 (1998).
	Koechlin, E., Anton, J.L., and Burnod, Y., Dynamical computational properties of local cortical networks for visual and motor processing, Journal of Physiology: Paris, 900, 257-262 (1997).
	Koechlin, E. and Burnod, Y., Dual population coding in the neocortex: a model of interaction between representation and attention in the visual cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 353-370 (1996).