CRCN CNRS HDR
Contact:
Email: alexandre.zenon@u-bordeaux.fr
Phone: +33 (0)7 82 68 42 33
Team:
MOCOCO: Motor Control and Cognition
Domain:
Cognitive Neuroscience
Research axis:
Cognitive effort and cognitive fatigue, Arousal, Information Theory
Scientific expertise:
Experimental neuroscience : behaviour, neuroimagery, pupillometry, EEG, TMS
Computational neuroscience : modelling of behaviour, information theory
Projects:
- Information theoretic perspective on cognitive effort
- Functional brain alterations in relation to fatigue induction
- Functional role of arousal
- Link between arousal and wellbeing
Selected Publications: 
Zénon A. Time-domain analysis for extracting fast-paced pupil responses. Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 30;7:41484. doi: 10.1038/srep41484. Zénon A., Devesse S., Olivier E. Dopamine Manipulation Affects Response Vigor Independently of Opportunity Cost.The Journal of Neuroscience 36(37):9516-9525 · September 2016. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4467-15.2016 Zénon A., Duclos Y, Carron R, Witjas T, Baunez C, Régis J, Azulay JP, Brown P, Eusebio A.The human subthalamic nucleus encodes the subjective value of reward and the cost of effort during decision-making. Brain. 2016 Jun;139(Pt 6):1830-43. doi: 10.1093/brain/aww075. Epub 2016 Apr 27. Andrea Alamia, Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry, Estibaliz San Anton, Etienne Olivier, Axel Cleeremans, Alexandre Zenon. Unconscious associative learning with conscious cues. Neurosci Conscious (2016) 2016 (1): niw016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niw016 Gergelyfi, M., Sanz-Arigita, E. J., Solopchuk, O., Dricot, L., Jacob, B., & Zénon, A. (2021). Mental fatigue correlates with depression of task-related network and augmented DMN activity but spares the reward circuit. NeuroImage, 118532. Solopchuk, O., & Zénon, A. (2021). Active sensing with artificial neural networks. Neural Networks. Lam, S. Y., & Zénon, A. (2021). Information rate in humans during visuomotor tracking. Entropy, 23(2), 228. Zénon, A., (2019) Eye pupil signals information gain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Alamia A., VanRullen R., Pasqualotto E., Mouraux A., and Zénon, A. (2019) Pupil-linked arousal responds to unconscious surprisal. Journal of Neuroscience. Zénon, A., Solopchuk, O., Pezzulo, G., (2019) An information-theoretic perspective on the costs of cognition. Neuropsychologia. Gergelyfi, M., Sanz-Arigita, E. J., Solopchuk, O., Dricot, L., Jacob, B., & Zénon, A. (2021). Mental fatigue correlates with depression of task-related network and augmented DMN activity but spares the reward circuit. NeuroImage, 118532. Solopchuk, O., & Zénon, A. (2021). Active sensing with artificial neural networks. Neural Networks. Lam, S. Y., & Zénon, A. (2021). Information rate in humans during visuomotor tracking. Entropy, 23(2), 228. Zénon, A., (2019) Eye pupil signals information gain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Alamia A., VanRullen R., Pasqualotto E., Mouraux A., and Zénon, A. (2019) Pupil-linked arousal responds to unconscious surprisal. Journal of Neuroscience. Zénon, A., Solopchuk, O., Pezzulo, G., (2019) An information-theoretic perspective on the costs of cognition. Neuropsychologia.