Adeline Depierreux
Labmanager and research assistant
After several years as a research assistant in the Babylab, I have now joined the Babylab team of coordinators. I contribute to student training and the organization of the structure with Viviane and Maxine, by assisting Babylab members.
At the same time, I assist Olivier Mascaro with his research, notably by carrying out studies on social cognition in babies and on counterfactual reasoning in children, which involves visiting nursery and primary schools.
Ongoing project
Individual and social learning without feedback, from infancy to childhood – LUCID
The LUCID project aims to investigate this remarkable ability, focusing on how children acquire knowledge in social and individual domains from infancy through school age.
Project team lead
Olivier Mascaro
Vicarious Social Touch perception in infants
The aim of this project is to investigate the physiological, behavioural and neural responses of infants to social-tactile interactions.
Project team lead
Olivier Mascaro
Project team lead
Louise Krisch
FoundTrust: The neurocognitive bases of epistemic trust
The willingness to believe communicated information (or epistemic trust) plays a central role in human cognitive development. The aim of this project is to characterize its development in the first years of life.
Project team lead
Olivier Mascaro
Selected Publications
Bernard, C., Depierreux, A., & Mascaro, O. (2026). The Quantity‐Competence Presumption: Children Use Informativeness to Calibrate Trust and Infer Speakers’ Knowledge. Developmental Science, 29(5), e70276. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70276
Mascaro, O., Depierreux, A., Peysson, N., & Morin, O. (2026). Elcos are common, ajajatas are weird: Manner implicatures guide the interpretation of unfamiliar words for French children and for adults in 18 languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 155(8), 1905–1920. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001972
Bernard, C., Depierreux, A., Huet, V., & Mascaro, O. (2025). Infants Assume Questions Serve an Information‐Seeking Function, Link Them to Interrogative Sentences and Differentiate Them From Assertions. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14267
Mascaro, O., Goupil, N., Pantecouteau, H., Depierreux, A., Van der Henst, J.B., & Claidière, N. (2023). Human and animal dominance hierarchies show a pyramidal structure guiding adults and infants social inferences. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01634-5