Ugo BALLENGHEIN, PhD
Full Professor
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Sciences and Education Team
National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (INSPÉ) of the Créteil academy
Paris-East Creteil Val de Marne University
RESEARCH
Holder of a doctoral thesis in Cognitive Psychology defended in 2019 at the University of Paris 8, I am currently full Professor (University of Paris-Est Créteil) at INSPE within the Cognitive Sciences and Education team. My research themes are digital reading , the impact of emotions on school learning and cognitive engagement . More generally, I study the postural and oculometric metrics underlying the cognitive processes at work during learning.
The study of cognition can be understood in an embodied or situated manner. This approach places the body as a stakeholder in cognition. The objective of my research is to analyze the involvement of the body during silent reading and to show how the movements of the human body can account for the cognitive processes underlying engagement during digital reading. I also study the influence of emotions in school learning such as reading, text comprehension or mathematical problem solving.
My research attempts to set up original experimental protocols associated with innovative statistical analyses with the aim of bringing out metrics likely to underpin the cognitive processes studied during learning.
RESUME
September 2024
FULL PROFESSOR IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
INSPÉ - UPEC
September 2020
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
INSPÉ - UPEC
September 2018 - August 2020
ATER - INSPÉ - UPEC
INSPÉ - UPEC
September 2015 - September 2019
PHD PSYCHOLOGY – PARIS 8 VINCENNES-SAINT-DENIS UNIVERSITY
Thesis defended on September 25, 2019.
Thesis title: Embodied reading: study of bodily involvement in cognitive engagement.
Thesis director: Thierry Baccino
Jury: Charles Tijus, Jean-Michel Boucheix, Olga Megalakaki, Jean-Luc Velay, Johanna K. Kaakinen, Thierry Baccino
Funding: Research grant from the Ministry of Research and Higher Education
June 2015
MASTER’S RESEARCH “NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL COGNITION” – PRACTICAL SCHOOL OF HIGHER STUDIES, PARIS
Title of the thesis: Physiological indicators of cognitive load
Thesis director: Thierry Baccino
Jury: Joëlle Provasi, Isabelle Carchon, François Jouen, Marc BUI, Jean Baratgin, Charles Tijus
Mention: Very good
TEACHING
Lectures - Tutorials - Dissertation supervision
September 2020 - Today
Teaching M1 and M2 MEEF (Métiers de l'Enseignement, de l'Éducation et de la Formation) at INSPE in the Académie de Créteil. The courses taught are CM and TD in cognitive psychology for education:
- Learning automation processes
- Active learning and learning strategies
- The role of executive functions in learning
- Human memory and knowledge acquisition
- Functioning and development of attention
- A psychological approach to writing and editing
- Learning: between constraints and strategies, the contribution of cognitive science
- Dyslexia
- Developmental motor coordination disorders
- Initiation and training through research
- Classroom visits for trainee teachers (EFS)
- M1 & M2 thesis supervision
- Learning: between constraints and strategies, the contribution of cognitive sciences
- Dyslexia
- Developmental motor coordination disorders
- Initiation and training through research
- Classroom visits for trainee teachers (EFS)
- M1 & M2 thesis supervision
PUBLICATIONS
Ballenghein, U., Lachaud, L., Aparicio, X., & Alamargot, D. (2025). Effect of Emotional Valence on Text Comprehension by French Fourth and Fifth Graders. Psychology International, 7(1), 4.
https://doi.org/10.3390/psycholint7010004
Aparicio, X., Ballenghein, U., & Baccino, T. (2024, december). Lecture sur écran: apports et contraintes. In Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique (Vol. 182, No. 10, pp. 902-907). Elsevier Masson.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2024.08.006
Ballenghein, U., & Lachaud, L. (2024). Cognitive engagement and reading comprehension of French pupils aged between 9-and 11-Years old are influenced by task relevance: evidence from concurrent recordings of postural and eye movements. Reading and Writing, 1-15.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10614-8
Lachaud, L., Tissier, G., & Ballenghein, U. (2023, september). Mindfulness Is in the Eye of the Machine. In International Conference on Human and Artificial Rationalities (pp. 223-239). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-55245-8_15
Ballenghein, U., Kaakinen, J. K., Tissier, G., & Baccino, T. (2023). Fluctuation in cognitive engagement during listening and reading of erotica and horror stories. Cognition and Emotion, 37(5), 874-890.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2215974
Kaakinen, J. K., Werlen, E., Kammerer, Y., Acartürk, C., Aparicio, X., Baccino, T., Ballenghein, U... & Ruiz Fernandez, S. (2022). IDEST: international database of emotional short texts. Plos one, 17(10), e0274480.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274480
Aparicio, X., Ballenghein, U., Bouchon, C. 2022). Les logiciels d’apprentissage de la lecture pour les apprenants en langue seconde: bilan et perspectives. ANAE Approche neuropsychologique des apprentissages chez l'enfant.
https://hal.u-pec.fr/hal-03842352v1/document
Ballenghein, U., Kaakinen, J. K., Tissier, G., & Baccino, T. (2020). Cognitive engagement during reading on digital tablet: Evidence from concurrent recordings of postural and eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(11), 1820-1829.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820931830
Ballenghein, U., Megalakaki, O., Baccino, T. (2019). Cognitive engagement in emotional text reading: concurrent recordings of eye movements and head motion. Cognition and Emotion, 33(7), 1448-1460.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1574718
Megalakaki, O., Ballenghein, U., & Baccino, T. (2019). Effects of Valence and Emotional Intensity on the Comprehension and Memorization of Texts. Frontiers in psychology, 10:179.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00179
Megalakaki, O., Crimet, A., Ballenghein, U., & Gounden, Y. (2019). Capturing Expert Knowledge of Mushrooms. SAGE Open, 9(2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019852484
Ballenghein, U., & Baccino, T. (2018). Referential processing during reading: Concurrent recordings of eye movements and head motion. Cognitive Processing, 20(3), 371-384.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0894-1
Kaakinen, J. K., Ballenghein, U., Tissier, G., & Baccino, T. (2018). Fluctuation in cognitive engagement during reading: Evidence from concurrent recordings of postural and eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(10), 1671-1677.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000539
COMMUNICATIONS
Ballenghein, U., Lachaud, L. (2024). Cognitive engagement and reading comprehension of French pupils aged between 9-and 11-Years old are influenced by task relevance: evidence from concurrent recordings of postural and eye movements. Psychonomic Society Conference, New York, USA, 21 novembre 2024
Ballenghein, U., Kaakinen, J.K., Tissier, G., Baccino, T. (2023). Fluctuations in cognitive engagement during listening and reading of erotica and horror stories. Psychonomic Society Conference, Sans Francisco, USA, 17 novembre 2023
Lachaud, L., Tissier, G., Ballenghein, U. (2023). Can we read the state of mindfulness in our eyes? Analysis of eye movements during different internal states in experienced meditators and non-meditators. HAR 2023. Paris. France
Werlen, E., Kaakinen, J.K., Kammerer, Y., Acarturk, C., Aparicio, X., Baccino, T., Ballenghein, U., Bergamin, P., Ruiz Fernandez, S., Castells, N., Costa, A., Falé, I., & Megalakaki, O. (2022). IDEST: International Database of Emotional Short Texts. Psychonomic Society Conference, Boston, USA, Novembre 2022
Fernandez, J., Guilbert, J., Ballenghein., U., Morin., M-F., Alamargot., D (2021). Effets d’un enseignement explicite de stratégies rédactionnelles chez des élèves du cycle 3 scolarisés en REP+. Communication orale au colloque SFERE-Provence, 30-31 mars, Marseille, France.
Ballenghein U., Baccino T. (07/2018). Réponse corporelle à l'engagement cognitif lors de la lecture sur tablette : vers une approche de lecture « incarnée », Colloque IMPEC 2018 – ENS Lyon
Ballenghein U., Megalakaki O., Baccino T. (06/2018). Lecture de textes émotionnels : effets sur la compréhension, les mouvements oculaires et la posture du corps, Colloque Langage et eMOTions – Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
Ballenghein, U., Megalakaki O., Baccino T. (2017) Reading Emotional Texts: Effects on Comprehension, Eye Movements and Body Posture, Books and Screen and the Reading Brain, Vilnius University, Lituania
Medrano-Roldán, A., López-Orozco, F., Ballenghein, U., Baccino, T. (2017). Towards a computational cognitive model for predicting ye movements while a text with referential change is processed, XIII IEEE Latin American Summer school, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chilie
Kaakinen, J.K., Ballenghein, U., Tissier, G., Baccino, T. (2017). Fluctuations in cognitive engagement during reading: Evidence from concurrent recordings of postural and eye movements, ECEM 2017, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Kaakinen, J.K., Ballenghein, U., Tissier, G., Baccino, T. (2017). Fluctuations in Cognitive Engagement During Reading: Evidence from Concurrent Recordings of Eye Movements and Postural Micromovements, ECEM 2017, 27th annual meeting, Society for text & discourse, Philadelphia, USA
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EYE-TRACKING
EXPERTISE
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
R software, LMEs
MOTION CAPTURE
Movement analysis
EYE MOVEMENT ANALYSIS
Fixed and mobile eye-tracker
READING & WRITING
Reading and writing psychology
ÉMOTIONS
Émotions et processus d'apprentissages
EDUCATION
Cognitive psychology
Statistics
Research methods
Dissertation management
PhD thesis supervision
CONTACT
Maison de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (MRI)
INSPÉ de l'académie de Créteil
Rue Jean Macé
94380 Bonneuil-sur-Marne
