Directed by J. Bruno Debruille, MD, PhD, the laboratory attempts to discover the neurocognitive mechanisms of psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions, hallucinations, and alienation. It also explores the neurocognitive effects caused by the drugs used to treat these symptoms. To achieve this, the team combines clinical assessments and neuropsychological tests with a direct, real-time functional brain imaging technique that measure the event-related brain potentials (ERPs).

The lab also focuses on the nature of the transformations of information by the brain processes responsible for the N400 potential that help in understanding the meaning of a stimulus, such as a word in a certain context. Knowing what these processes do will enable us to learn more about how the human mind understands.