Iris Menu
Ph.D
Associate professor
Paris Cité University
Iris is an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience at the Université Paris Cité. After obtaining a Master's in Developmental Psychology, she completed a PhD at LaPsyDÉ under the supervision of Prof. Arnaud Cachia in 2022. She was then a post-doctoral fellow at New York University, School of Medicine, with Dr. Moriah Thomason.
Her research aims to integrate different data modalities (brain, genetic, behavioral, and environmental) using statistical tools derived from applied mathematics (network analysis, structural equation modeling, machine learning) to better characterize cognitive development and learning.
She is particularly interested in early factors, especially preterm birth, that may play a role in neurocognitive development.
PUBLICATIONS
Chen, B., Ji, L., Yoon, Y. B., Duffy, M., Menu, I., Trentacosta, C. J., & Thomason, M. E. (2025). Maternal prenatal psychological stress and iron levels in the fetal brain. Developmental Psychobiology, 67(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.70062 | More |
Cachia, A., Dupont, C., Palmis, S., Menu, I., Auzias, G., Sein, J., Coulon, O., & Longcamp, M. (2025). The sulcal patterns of the occipito-temporal and anterior cingulate cortices influence reading and writing in children and adults. Cerebral Cortex, 35(6). https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf145 | |
Reed, E., Ji, L., Beeghly, M., Majbri, A., Bhatia, T., Duffy, M., Menu, I., Trentacosta, C. & Thomason, M. E. (2025). Fetal functional connectivity: Examining the role of prenatal maternal depression symptoms using graph theory. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 101585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101585 | More |
Menu, I., Duffy, M., Bhatia, T., Trapaga, S., John, J., Music, S., Nicholas, D., Yim, S., & Thomason, M. E. (2025). Large-scale examination of hot and cool executive function in children born preterm. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 75, 101593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101593 | More |
Menu, I., Borst, G., & Cachia, A. (2024). Latent Network Analysis of Executive Functions Across Development. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 31, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.355 | More |
Menu, I., Ji, L., Trentacosta, C., Jacques, S., Qureshi, F. & Thomason, M. (2024). Prenatal chronic inflammation and children’s executive function development. Child Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2024.2434215 | |
Ji, L., Menu, I., Majbri, A., Bhatia, T., Trentacosta, C. & Thomason, M. (2024). Trajectories of human brain functional connectome maturation across the birth transition. PLoS Biology, 22(11), e3002909. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002909 | More |
Maximino-Pinheiro, M., Menu, I., Boissin, E., Brunet, L.A., Barone, C., & Borst, G. (2024). Metacognition as a mediator of the relation between family SES and language and mathematical abilities in preschoolers. Scientific Reports, 14, 10392. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60972-0 | More |
Menu, I., Ji, L., Bhatia, T., Duffy, M., Hendrix, C. & Thomason, M. (2024). Beyond average outcomes: A latent profile analysis of diverse developmental trajectories in preterm and early term‐born children from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14143 | |
Mathan, J., Maximino-Pinheiro, M., He, Q., Rezende, G., Menu, I., Tissier, C., Salvia, E., Mevel, K., Le Stanc, L., Vidal, J., Moyon, M., Delalande, L., Orliac, F., Poirel, N., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O., Chaumette, B., Borst, G., & Cachia, A. (2024). Effects of parental socioeconomic status on offspring's fetal neurodevelopment. Cerebral Cortex, 34(11), bhae443, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae443 | |
Rezende, G., Le Stanc, L., Menu, I., Cassotti, M., Aïte, A., Salvia, E., Houdé, O., Borst, G.*, & Cachia, A.* (2023). Differential effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive training on cool and hot inhibitory control in children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105741. | More |
Omont-Lescieux, S., Menu, I., Salvia, E., Poirel, N., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O., Cachia, A., & Borst, G. (2023). Lateralization of the cerebral network of inhibition in children before and after cognitive training. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, 101293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101293 | More |
Menu, I., Rezende, G., Le Stanc, L., Borst, G., & Cachia, A. (2022) A network analysis of executive functions before and after computerized cognitive training in children and adolescents. Scientific Reports, 12, 14660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17695-x | More |
Menu, I. (2022) Gene-brain-behavior characterization of executive function development and training: an integrative approach. [Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris Cité & CNRS] | More |
Menu, I., Rezende, G., Le Stanc, L., Borst, G., & Cachia, A., (2022). Inhibitory control training on executive functions of children and adolescents: A latent change score model approach. Cognitive Development, 64, 101231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101231 |