The research unit offers research and development services as well as advice, expertise, and training opportunities in the following domains:

• Real time analysis of writing by children, adults and professional writers;
• Recording and analysis of eye movements during writing, reading, or more generally during interactions with computer screens;
• Analysis of learning situations and performance;
• Identification of factors likely to hamper or boost learning processes;
• Evaluation of pedagogical devices or training schemes;
•  Evaluation of the ergonomics of user interfaces;
• Evaluation of cognitive disabilities in various normal and pathological populations;
• Survey of human-robot interaction: CERCA is concerned with human cognition and behaviour in the tasks sharing schemes involving humans and robots;
• Identification of factors likely to hamper or boost changes in attitude or behaviour;
• Analysis of decision-making situations in a professional context;
• Recording of motor activity (electromyography, etc.) and of the parameters associated with it (VO2 Max, aerobic maximal speed, etc.)

Key-words:

Learning, social cognition, behavior, motor control, cognitive development, writing, physical exercise and cognition, language, memory, psychology, cognitive psychopathology, aging.