Grégoire Borst
Ph.D, HDR
Professeur, Directeur
Université Paris Cité et IUF
Grégoire Borst est Professeur de psychologie du Développement et de neurosciences cognitives de l’éducation et Directeur du Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l’Education de l’enfant (CNRS). Il a obtenu sa thèse en 2005 à l'Université Paris Sud et a intégré le LaPsyDÉ en 2010 après 4 ans de post-doctorat à l’Université d’Harvard. Ces recherches s’intéressent au rôle des fonctions cognitives de haut niveau (métacognition, planification, résistance aux automatismes, régulation émotionnelle) dans le développement cognitif et socio-émotionnel et dans les apprentissages scolaires chez l'enfant, l'adolescent et le jeune adulte en combinant des approches comportementales et de neuroimagerie (EEG, NIRS, IRM).
Auteur de plus de 70 articles scientifiques, il est également auteur de différents ouvrages de pédagogie (Le cerveau et les apprentissages par exemple) mais aussi d’ouvrages grand public (Mon cerveau – Questions/Réponses). Grégoire Borst travaille en étroite collaboration avec l’ensemble des acteurs de l’éducation. Il est membre senior du Bureau International de l'Education (IBE - UNESCO), membre junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), membre du comité jeunesse du Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA), membre du comité de pilotage de la fédération des établissements scolaires publics innovants (fespi) – DRDIE Ministère de l’Education Nationale, membre du conseil de direction et du conseil scientifique du GIS REEFOR – INSPÉ de Paris, membre du CoNRS - section 26.



PUBLICATIONS
Viarouge, A., Lee, H., Borst, G. (2023). Attention to number requires magnitude-specific inhibition. Cognition, 230, 105285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105285 | |
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101231 | |
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. Sci Rep 12, 14660. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17695-x | More |
Draperi, M.*, Aïte, A.*, Cassotti, M., Le Stanc, L., Houdé, O., & Borst, G. (2022). Development of cool and hot theory of mind and cool and hot inhibitory control abilities from 3.5 to 6.5 years of age. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0262251. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262251 | More |
Bouhassoun, S., Gerlach, C., Borst, G., & Poirel, N. (2022). Framing the area: An efficient approach for avoiding visual interference and optimizing visual search in adolescents. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211065011 | More |
Salvia, E., Aïte, A., Vidal, J., & Borst, G. (2021). Hot and cool response inhibition abilities develop linearly from late childhood to young adulthood. Cognitive Development, 58, 101039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101039 | |
Roell, M.; Cachia, A.; Matejko, A.; Houdé, O.; Ansari, D.* & Borst, G.* (2021) Sulcation of the intraparietal sulcus is related to symbolic but not non-symbolic number skills. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 51, 100998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100998 | More |
Raoelison, M., Boissin, E., Borst, G., & De Neys, W. (2021). From slow to fast logic: The development of logical intuitions. Thinking & Reasoning, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2021.1885488 | More |
Bouhours, L., Camarda, A., Ernst, M., Osmont, A., Borst, G., & Cassotti, M. (2021). How does social evaluation influence Hot and Cool inhibitory control in adolescence? Plos one, 16(9), e0257753. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257753 | |
Camarda, A., Bouhours, L., Osmont, A., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., Borst, G., & Cassotti, M. (2021). Opposite effect of social evaluation on creative idea generation in early and middle adolescents. Creativity Research Journal, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2021.1902174 | |
Datin-Dorrière, V., Borst, G., Guillois, B., Cachia, A., Poirel, N. (2020). The forest, the trees, and the leaves in preterm children: The impact of prematurity on a visual search task containing three-level hierarchical stimuli. European Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 30, 253–260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01510-x | |
Orliac, F., Borst, G., Simon, G., Mevel, K., Vidal, J., Dollfus, S., Houdé, O., Peyrin, C., Poirel, N. (2020). Cortical thickness and natural scene recognition in the child’s brain. Brain Sciences, 10(6), 329. https//doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10060329 | |
Letang, M., Citron, P., Garbarg‐Chenon, J., Houdé, O. & Borst, G. (2020). Bridging the Gap between the Lab and the Classroom: An Online Citizen Scientific Research Project with Teachers Aiming at Improving Inhibitory Control of School‐Age Children. Mind, Brain, and Education. 15(1). 10.1111/mbe.12272. | More |
Salvia, E., Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Hopfensitz, A., Houdé, O., Bonnefon, J.-F., De Neys, W. (2020). Age-related neural correlates of facial trustworthiness detection during economic interaction. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 13(1), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.1037/npe0000112 | |
Salvia, E., Tissier, C., Charron, S., Herent, P., Vidal, J., Lion, S., Cassotti, M., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O.*, Borst, G.*, Cachia, A.* (2019). The local properties of bold signal fluctuations at rest monitor inhibitory control training in adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, Article 100664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100664 | More |
Rossi, S., Vidal, J., Létang, M., Houdé, O. Borst, G. (2019). Adolescents and adults need inhibitory control to compare fractions. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 5(3), 314-336. https://doi.org/10.5964/jnc.v5i3.197 | More |
Viarouge, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2019). The progressive 6-year-old conserver: Numerical saliency and sensitivity as core mechanisms of numerical abstraction in a Piaget-like estimation task. Cognition, 190, 137-142. | |
Roell, M., Viarouge, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2019). Inhibition of the whole number bias in decimal number comparison: A developmental negative priming study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 177, 240-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.08.010 | |
Viarouge, A., Houdé, O., Borst G. (2019). Evidence for the role of inhibition in numerical comparison: a negative priming study in 7-8-year-olds and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 186, 131-141. | |
Delalande, L., Moyon, M., Tissier, C., Dorrière, V., Guillois, B., Mevel, K., Charron, S., Salvia, E., Poirel, N., Vidal, J ., Lion, S., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O., Cachia, A., Borst, G. (2019). Complex and subtle structural changes in prefrontal cortex induced by inhibitory control training from childhood to adolescence. Developmental Science, Article e12898. | |
Mevel, K., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Simon, G., Orliac, F., Etard, O., Houdé, O., De Neys, W. (2019). Developmental frontal brain activation differences in overcoming heuristic bias. Cortex, 117, 111-121. | |
Roell, M., Viarouge, A., Hilscher, E., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2019). Evidence for a visuospatial bias in decimal number comparison in adolescents and in adults. Scientific Reports, 9, 14770. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51392-6 | |
Tissier, C. Linzarini, A., Allaire-Duquette, G., Mevel, K., Poirel, N., Dolfus, S., Etard, O., Orliac, F., Peyrin, C., Charron, S., Raznahan, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G.*, Cachia, A.* (2018). Sulcal polymorphisms of the IFG and ACC contribute to inhibitory control variability in children and adult. eNeuro, 5(1), ENEURO.0197-17.2018, 1 – 14. | |
Camarda, A., Borst, G., Agogué, M., Habib, M., Weil, B., Houdé, O., Cassotti, M. (2018). Do we need inhibitory control to be creative? Evidence from a dual-task paradigm. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12, 351-358 | |
Krakowski, C.-S., Borst, G., Vidal, J., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2018). Children inhibit global information when the forest is dense and local information when the forest is sparse. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 155-167. | |
Cachia, A.*, Roell, M.*, Mangin, J.-F., Sun, J., Jobert, A., Houdé, O., Dehaene, S., Borst, G. (2018). How interindividual differences in brain anatomy shape reading accuracy. Brain, Structure and Function, 223, 701-712. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1516-x | |
Bago, B., Frey, D., Vidal, J., Houdé, O., Borst, G., De Neys, W. (2018). Fast and slow thinking: Electrophysiological evidence for early conflict sensitivity. Neuropsychologia, 117, 483-490. | |
Viarouge, A., Courtier, P., Hoppe, M, Melnik, J., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2018). Spontaneous orientation towards irrelevant dimensions of magnitude and numerical acuity. Learning and Instruction, 54, 156 - 163. | |
Aïte, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2018). Stop in the name of lies: The cost of blocking the truth to deceive. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 141-151. | |
Camarda, A., Salvia, E., Vidal, J., Poirel, N., Weil, B., Houdé, O., Borst, G., Cassotti, M. (2018). Neural basis of functional fixedness during creative idea generation: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 118, 4-12. | |
Aïte, A., Cassotti, M., Linzarini, A., Osmont, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2018). Adolescents’ inhibitory control: Keep it cool or lose control. Developmental Science, 21(1). doi: 10.1111/desc.12491. | |
Cachia, A., Del Maschio, N., Borst, G., Della Rosa, PA., Pallier, C., Costa, A., Houdé, O., Abutalebi, J. (2017) Anterior Cingulate Cortex Sulcation and its Differential Effects on Conflict Monitoring in Bilinguals and Monolinguals. Brain and Language, 175, 57-63. | |
Ahr, E., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2017). Predominance of lateral over vertical mirror errors in reading: A case for neuronal recycling and inhibition. Brain and Cognition, 117, 1-8. | |
Brault Foisy, L.-M., Ahr, E., Masson, S., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2017). Is inhibitory control involved in discriminating pseudowords that contain the reversible letters b and d? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 262, 259-267. | |
Linzarini, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2017). Cognitive control outside of conscious awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 53, 185-193. | |
Roell, M., Viarouge, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2017). Inhibitory control and decimal number comparison in school-aged children. Plos One, 12(11), e0188276. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188276 | |
Lanoë, C., Lubin, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G., De Neys, W. (2017). Grammatical attraction error detection in children and adolescents. Cognitive Development. | |
Ahr, E., Borst, G., Houdé, O. (2016). The learning brain: Neuronal recycling and inhibition. Zeitschrift für experimentelle Psychologie, 224(4), 277–285. doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000263 | |
Cassotti, M., Agogué, M., Camarda, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2016). Inhibitory control as a core process of creative problem solving and ideas generation from childhood to adulthood. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 151, 61-72. | |
Borst, G., Cachia, A., Tissier, C., Ahr, E., Simon, G., Houdé, O. (2016). Early cerebral constraints on reading skills of school-age children: An MRI study. Mind, Brain Education, 10, 47-54. | |
Lubin, A., Rossi, S., Lanoë, C., Vidal, J., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2016). Expertise, inhibitory control and arithmetic word problems: A negative priming study in mathematics experts. Learning and Instruction, 45, 40-48. | |
Krakowski, C.S., Poirel, N., Vidal, J., Roell, M., Pineau, A., Borst, G., & Houdé O. (2016). The forest, the trees and the leaves: Differences of processing across development. Developmental Psychology, 52, 1262-1272. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000138 | |
Lanoë, C., Vidal, J., Lubin, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2016). Inhibitory control is needed to overcome written verb inflection errors: Evidence from a developmental negative priming study. Cognitive Development, 37, 18-27. | |
Cachia, A., Borst, G., Tissier, C., Fischer, C., Plaze, M., Gay, O., Rivière, D., Gogtay, N., Giedd, J., Mangin, J.-F., Houdé, O., Raznahan, A. (2016). Longitudinal stability of the folding pattern of the anterior cingulate cortex during development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 122-127. | |
Ahr, E., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2016). Inhibition of the mirror-generalization process in reading in school-aged children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 145, 157-165. | |
Aïte, A., Berthoz, A., Vidal, J., Roell, M., Zaoui, M., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2016).Taking a third-person perspective requires inhibitory control: Evidence from a developmental negative priming study. Child Development, 87, 1825-1840. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12558 | |
Krakowski, C.-S., Borst, G., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2015). You can detect the trees as well as the forest when adding the leaves: Evidence from visual search tasks containing three-level hierarchical stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 157, 131-143. | |
Brault Foisy, L.-M., Ahr, E., Masson, S., Borst, G., Houdé, O. (2015). Blocking our brain: When we need to inhibit repetitive mistakes! Frontiers for Young Minds. doi:10.3389/frym.2015.00017 | |
Wantz, A.L., Borst, G., Mast, F.W., Lobmaier, J.S. (2015). Colors in mind: A novel paradigm to investigate color imagery. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 1152-1161. | |
Linzarini, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2015). When Stroop helps Piaget: An inter-task positive priming paradigm in 9-year-old children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 139, 71–82. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.05.010 | |
Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2015). Evidence for an inhibitory-control theory of the reasoning brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 148. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00148 | |
Habib, M., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Moutier, S., Cassotti, M. (2015). Socio-emotional context and adolescents’ decision making: The experience of regret and relief after social comparison. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 81-91. | |
Borst, G., Aïte, A., Houdé, O. (2015). Inhibition of misleading heuristics as a core mechanism for typical cognitive development: Evidence from behavioral and brain-imaging studies. Developmental Medicine Child Neurology, 57(s2), 21-25. | |
Borst, G., Ahr, E., Roell, M., & Houdé, O. (2015). The cost of blocking the mirror generalization process in reading: Evidence for the role of inhibitory control in discriminating letters with lateral mirror- image counterparts. Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 22, 228-234. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0663-9 | |
Habib, M., Cassotti, M., Moutier, S., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2015). Fear and anger have opposite effects on risk seeking in the gain frame. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 253. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00253 | |
Poirel, N., Krakowski, C.-S., Sayah, S., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2014). Do you want to see the tree? Ignore the forest. Inhibitory control during local processing: A negative priming study of local-global processing. Experimental Psychology, 61, 205-214. | |
Cassotti, M., Aïte, A., Osmont, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2014). What have we learned about the processes involved in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) from developmental studies? Frontiers in Psychology, section Decision Neuroscience, 5, 915. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00915 | |
Cachia, A.*, Borst, G.*, Vidal, J., Fischer, C., Pineau, A., Mangin, J.-F., Houdé, O. (2014). The shape of the anterior cingulate cortex contributes to cognitive control efficiency in preschoolers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 96-106. | |
Aïte, A., Barrault, S., Cassotti, M., Borst, G., Bonnaire, C., Houdé, O., Varescon, I., Moutier, S. (2014). The impact of alexithymia in pathological gamblers' decision-making skills: A preliminary study on pathological gamblers recruited in an ecological setting. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 27, 59-67. | |
Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2014). Measuring inhibitory control in children and adults: Brain imaging and mental chronometry. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology (Research Topic: Development of executive function during childhood, edited by Y. Moriguchi, P. Zelazo, and N. Chevalier), 5, 616. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00616 | |
Borst, G., Houdé, O. (2014). Inhibitory control as a core mechanism for cognitive development and learning at school. Perspectives on Language and Literacy (Special Issue on Executive functions edited by A. Diamond), 41-44. | |
Borst, G.*, Cachia, A.*, Vidal., J., Simon, G., Fischer, C., Pineau, A., Poirel, N., Mangin, J.-F., Houdé, O. (2014). Folding of the anterior cingulate cortex partially explains inhibitory control during childhood: A longitudinal study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 126-135. | |
Aïte, A., Borst, G., Moutier, S., Varescon, I., Brown, I., Houdé, O., Cassotti, M. (2013). Impact of emotional context congruency on decision making under ambiguity. Emotion, 13, 177-182. | |
Kim, S., Borst, G., Thompson, W.L., Hopkins, R.O., Kosslyn, S.M., Squire L.R. (2013). Sparing of spatial mental imagery in patients with hippocampal lesions. Learning Memory, 20, 657-663. | |
Borst, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Cassotti, M., Houdé, O. (2013). Inhibitory control efficiency in a Piaget-like class-inclusion task in school-age children and adults: A developmental negative priming study. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1366-1374. | |
Borst, G. (2013). Fear Improves Mental Rotation of Low-Spatial-Frequency Visual Representation. Emotion, 13, 811-816. | |
Borst, G., Graeme, S., Kosslyn, S.M. (2013). Fear and anxiety module mental rotation. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 665-671. | |
Lubin, A., Vidal, J., Lanoë, C., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2013). Inhibitory control is needed for the resolution of arithmetic word problems: A developmental negative priming study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105(3), 701-708. | |
Chabris, C.F., Lee, J.J., Benjamin, D.J., Beauchamp, J.P., Glaeser, E.L., Borst, G., Pinker, S., Laibson, D.I. (2013). Why is it hard to find genes that are associated with social science traits? Theoretical and empirical considerations. American Journal of Public Health, 103, S152-166. | |
Borst, G., Simon, G., Vidal, J., Houdé, O. (2013). Inhibitory control and visuospatial reversibility in Piaget’s seminal number-conservation task: A high-density ERP study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 920. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00920 | |
Borst, G., Niven, N., Logie, R.H. (2012). Visual mental image generation does not overlap with visual short-term memory: A dual-task interference study. Memory Cognition, 40, 360-372. | |
Habib, M., Cassotti, M., Borst, G., Simon, G., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2012). Counterfactually mediated emotions: A developmental study of regret and relief in a probabilistic gambling task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112, 265-274. | |
Borst, G., Ganis, G., Thompson, W.L., Kosslyn, S.M. (2012). Representations in mental imagery and working memory: Evidence from different types of visual masks. Memory Cognition, 40, 204-217. | |
Borst, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Cassotti, M., Houdé, O. (2012). Inhibitory control in number-conservation and class-inclusion tasks: A neo-Piagetian inter-tasks priming study. Cognitive Development, 27, 283-298. | |
Poirel, N.*, Borst, G.*, Simon, G., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2012). Number conservation is related to children's prefrontal inhibitory control: An fMRI study of a Piagetian task. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40802. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040802 | |
Van der Ham, I., Borst, G. (2011). Individual differences in spatial relation processing: Effect of gender, abilities and strategies. Brain and Cognition, 76, 184-190. | |
Lewis, K., Borst, G., Kosslyn, S. M. (2011). Integrating images and percepts: New evidence for depictive representation. Psychological Research, 75, 259-271. | |
Van der Ham, I., Borst, G. (2011). The nature of categorical and coordinate spatial relation processing: An interference study. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 922-930. | |
Borst, G., Kievit, R. A., Thompson, W. L., Kosslyn, S. M. (2011). Mental rotation is not easily cognitively penetrable. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 60-75. | |
Borst, G., Thompson, W. L., Kosslyn, S. M. (2011). Understanding the dorsal and ventral systems of the cortex: Beyond dichotomies. American Psychologist, 66, 624-632. | |
Afonso, A., Blum, A., Katz, B. F. G., Tarroux, P., Borst, G., Denis, M. (2010). Structural properties of spatial representations in blind people: Scanning images constructed from haptic exploration or from locomotion in a 3-D audio virtual environment. Memory Cognition, 38, 591-604. | |
Borst, G. Kosslyn, S. M. (2010). Varying the scope of attention alters the encoding of categorical and coordinate spatial relations. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2769-2772. | |
Borst, G., Kosslyn, S. M. (2010). Fear selectively modulates visual mental imagery and visual perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 833-839. | |
Borst, G., Kosslyn, S. M. (2010). Individual differences in spatial imagery. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2031-2050. | |
Borst, G., Kosslyn, S. M. (2008). Visual mental imagery and visual perception: Structural equivalence revealed by scanning processes. Memory Cognition, 36, 849-862. | |
Borst, G., Kosslyn, S. M., Denis, M. (2006). Different cognitive processes in two image scanning paradigms. Memory Cognition, 34, 475-490. |