CV
Contact Information
| Name | Leslie Tricoche |
| Professional Title | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| leslie.tricoche@ecomail.fr |
Professional Summary
Social psychology - Cognitive neurosciences - Development - Decision-making - Social influence - Pro-social and pro-environmental behaviors
ORCID: 0009-0004-2760-440X
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leslie-Tricoche
Experience
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2025 - 2026 Bordeaux, France
Postdoctoral researcher
Bordeaux University, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest (Flowers team)
- Social influence on cognitive training and learning in older adults
- Social influence on curiosity to learn in children
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2025 - 2026 Bordeaux, France
ATER (teaching contract)
Bordeaux University
- University degree teaching (second- and third-year students) in MIASHS
- Master degree teaching (first- and second-year students) in Cognitive Sciences
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2022 - 2025 Ghent, Belgium
Postdoctoral researcher
Ghent University - Department of Experimental Psychology - Moral and Social Brain Lab
- Neurocognitive processes of prosocial disobedience
- Decision processes associated with pro-environmental behaviors
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2023 - 2025 Brussels, Belgium
Teaching intervention
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
- University degree teaching (first-year students) in Law
- Lecture course in introduction to psychology
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2021 - 2022 Lyon, France
Teaching contract
Lyon University - IFMKDV
- Master degree teaching (first- and second-year students) in physical therapy for students with visual impairment
- Neuroscience courses
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2018 - 2021 Lyon, France
Teaching contract
Lyon University
- University degree teaching (undergraduate students) in paramedical studies
- Courses in neuroplasticity, statistics, and informatics
Education
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2018 - 2022 Lyon, France
PhD
Lyon University
Neurosciences
- Title: Neural bases of social facilitation/inhibition in children and adults: Why does the mere presence of a peer modulate our cognitive performance?
- Supervisors: Denis Pélisson and Martine Meunier
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2016 - 2018 Lyon, France
Master degree
Lyon University
Fundamental and clinical neurosciences
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2015 - 2016 Bordeaux, France
University degree
Bordeaux University
Biology
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2012 - 2015 Bordeaux, France
University degree
Bordeaux University
MIASHS (mathematics and informatics applied to the human and social sciences), option cognitive sciences
Awards
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2018 Doctoral fellowship of the Neurosciences and Cognition doctoral school (NSCo ED)
Lyon University
Publications
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2026 Choosing others or the environment? Neurocognitive evidence for moral conflict and priority of prosocial over pro-environmental values
Leslie Tricoche, Claus Lamm, Damien Brevers, Emilie A. Caspar
PsyArXiv (preprint)
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2026 Contrasting the classic effect of reward on attentional priority maps: Behavioral evidence for an attentional gating of spatially-specific reward signals
Bertrand Beffara, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Suliann Ben Hamed, Irene Cristofori, Leslie Tricoche, C. Nico Boehler, Leonardo Chelazzi, Elisa Santandrea, Emiliano Macaluso
PsyArXiv (preprint)
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2026 The power of social influence on (non-)moral decision-making and its resistance: A scoping review of behavioral effects and neural mechanisms
Leslie Tricoche, Emilie A. Caspar
OSF Preprint
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2025 Neuro-cognitive specificities in prosocial disobedience: A comparative fMRI study of civilian and military populations
Leslie Tricoche, Antonin Rovai, Salvatore Lo Bue, Emilie A. Caspar
PLOS ONE
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2025 From social inhibition in childhood to social facilitation in adulthood: How social presence systematically enhances the predominant response strategy in cognitive tasks
Leslie Tricoche, Amelie Reynaud, Denis Pelisson, Jerome Prado, Martine Meunier
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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2024 When the brain says “No!”: An fMRI study on the neural correlates of resistance to immoral orders
Leslie Tricoche, Antonin Rovai, Emilie A. Caspar
Imaging Neuroscience
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2024 Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements
Leslie Tricoche, Marion Royer d'Halluin, Martine Meunier, Denis Pelisson
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
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2023 Developmental Trajectory of Anticipation: Insights from Sequential Comparative Judgments
Leslie Tricoche, Martine Meunier, Sirine Hassen, Jerome Prado, Denis Pelisson
Behavioral Sciences
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2023 Task-independent neural bases of peer presence effect on cognition in children and adults
Leslie Tricoche, Denis Pelisson, Lea Longo, Eric Koun, Alice Poisson, Jerome Prado, Martine Meunier
NeuroImage
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2021 Peer Presence Effect on Numerosity and Phonological Comparisons in 4th Graders: When Working with a Schoolmate Makes Children More Adult-like
Leslie Tricoche, Elisabetta Monfardini, Amelie J. Reynaud, Justine Epinat-Duclos, Denis Pelisson, Jerome Prado, Martine Meunier
Biology
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2020 Peer Presence Effects on Eye Movements and Attentional Performance
Leslie Tricoche, Johan Ferrand-Verdejo, Denis Pelisson, Martine Meunier
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Certificates
- (Re-)Certification of first aid actions (at work) - Bordeaux, France (2026)
- Certification to monitor 3.0T Siemens Trio scanners - Brussels, Belgium (2024)
- Certification to monitor 3.0T Magnetom Prisma scanners - Lyon, France (2021)
- Good clinical practices - Lyon, France (2020)
Projects
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BD InScience INSERM project Vol. 2
My PhD work was adapted into a comic book format.