Alain Content

Dr. Alain Content is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he conducts research at the Laboratoire Cognition, Langage & Développement (LCLD), part of the Centre de Recherche Cognition et Neurosciences (CRCN).

• Specializes in lexical access, visual/auditory word recognition, and reading disorders
• Current projects explore perceptual units in visual words through behavioral/neuroimaging studies and numerical cognition with collaborators like Florence Gabriel and Denes Szücs
• Developed fraction-learning games with education colleagues to enhance classroom engagement

His research spans implicit/explicit knowledge dynamics, syllabic structure effects, and language-schooling interactions in arithmetic. Key methodologies include fMRI, EEG, and behavioral experiments.

Recent publications focus on cross-linguistic reading proficiency, Chinese character recognition, and numerosity processing in educational contexts. Collaborations with Mathieu Guillaume and Fabienne Chetail investigate neural markers of numerical intuition and arithmetic problem-solving.