Dr. Diane Rekow

Education

2012 Bachelor in English Language and culture (Université de Lyon 2)

2015 Bachelor in Psychologie (Université Paris 8)

2017 Master's Degree in Behavioral Sciences and Neurosciences (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie)

2020 PhD in Psychologie (Université de Bourgogne): "When your nose knows what you see. Multisensory development of visual categorization: Evidence from odor-driven face categorization in the human brain." (PDF at : http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14298.98249 )

Past affiliation - 2017-2023

Development of Olfactory Communication & Cognition Lab

Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation

Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France

Public outreach & dissemination - since 2020

The Experimentarium: science animation in schools (10-18 yo), for students (ex: ITN), and the general public - on multiple occasions since 2020, coordinated by the international network of the Experimentarium (https://www.experimentarium.fr/qui-sommes-nous)

Radio talk-show about EEG: in French (Les RDV Tech: https://frenchspin.fr/2020/10/le-rdv-tech-372-bonus-electroencephalographie-la-numerisation-du-cerveau/)

Brain awareness week (2021, 2022, 2023), Science Festival (2021), European Researchers' Night (2021, 2022), Biology Day (2022)

Cecchetto, C.*, Leleu, A.*, Calce, R. P., Arnhardt, S., Parma, V., de Groot, J. H. B., Freiherr, J., Gentili, C., Zou, L., Thunell, E., Fischmeister, F., Rekow, D.*, Dal Bò, E.* 2024, Consistent social odor representation across seven languages:  the Social Odor Scale translation and validation. Chemical Senses., doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjae035    *equal contributions

Kiseleva, A., Rekow, D., Schaal, B., Leleu, A. 2024, Olfactory facilitation of visual categorization in the 4-month-old brain depends on visual demand. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.13562

Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Kiseleva, A., Rossion, B., Durand, K., Schaal, B. & Leleu, A. 2024, Olfactory-to-visual facilitation in the infant brain declines gradually from 4 to 12 months. Child Development, 95:1967-1981. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14124

Calce, R. P., Rekow, D., Barbero, F. M., Kiseleva, A., Talwar, S., Leleu, A., & Collignon, O. 2024, Voice Categorization in the 4-month-old human brain. Current Biology, 34, 46–55. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.042 

Rekow, D. & Leleu, A. Tips from the Nose: Odor-driven Visual Categorization in the Developing Human Brain. In Chemical Signals in Vertebrates Volume 15, Eds. B. Schaal, D. Rekow, M. Keller & F. Damon, Springer Nature. In press.

Baudouin, J.-Y., Poncet, F., Polinori, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F., Leleu, A., Faivre, L., & Baltenneck, N. Task-related modulations of facial expression processing: an FPVS-EEG study. Emotion, doi: 10.1037/emo0001223,  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jOfvYaKgF0zdvcz3DTPNdbZiivqpigDb/view?usp=share_link

Poncet, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F., Dzhelyova, M. P., Schaal, B., Durand, K. Faivre, L., Rossion, B. & Baudouin, J.-Y. (2022) A neural marker of rapid discrimination of facial expression in 3.5- and 7-month-old infants. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16:901013. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.901013, http://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.901013

Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Durand, K., & Leleu, A. (2022) Smell what you hardly see: Odors assist categorization in the human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 255, 119181; doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119181. [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2020], https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/reader/pii/S1053811922003068/pdf

Rekow, D., Baudouin,  J.-Y., Brochard, R., Rossion, B. & Leleu, A. (2022) Rapid neural categorization of facelike objects predicts the perceptual awareness of a face (face pareidolia). Cognition, 222:105016. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105016. [Q1 Cognitive Neuroscience – SJR 2020], https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vp7G_BAztsIb8cEF2BsutyYjBIkmUXgl/view?usp=sharing

Leleu A. & Rekow, D. L’odeur maternelle aide le cerveau du nourrisson à catégoriser des objets ressemblant à des visages. Médecine/Sciences, 38(6-7), 541-544; doi: 10.1051/medsci/2022067, https://www.medecinesciences.org/en/articles/medsci/pdf/2022/06/msc220039.pdf

Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Poncet, F., Damon, F., Durand, K., Schaal, B., Rossion, B. & Leleu, A. (2021). Odor-driven face-like categorization in the human infant brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(21) e2014979118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014979118 [Q1 Multiplidisciplinary – SJR 2019], https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JxEqi6E0Tl6UfCMWiEANggQwaHW5jjNn/view?usp=sharing

Poncet, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F., Durand, K., Schaal, B. & Baudouin, J.-Y. Odor-evoked hedonic contexts influence the discrimination of facial expressions in the human brain. Biological Psychology, 158, 0301-0511. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.108005  PDF : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ik0Fd8WGPR36mn8eKdJ2IAvMmcZ9tOoV/view?usp=sharing

Rekow, D., Leleu, A., Poncet, F., Damon, F., Rossion, B, Durand, K., Schaal, B., & Baudouin,  J.-Y. Categorization of objects and faces in the infant brain and its sensitivity to maternal odor: further evidence for the role of intersensory congruency in perceptual development. Cognitive Development, 55, 100930. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100930, https://drive.google.com/file/d/10gsRAwxOfK6MmG0vD1ZlXVugmMAZAvmN/view?usp=sharing

Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Rossion, B. & A. Leleu. An ecological measure of rapid and automatic face-sex categorization. Cortex, 127, 150-161. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.007, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOUmP3mKQCxAnPi6WE4tO0VdrBBO5Iww/view?usp=sharing

Damon, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Poncet, F. & J.-Y. Baudouin. Expertise for conspecific face individuation in the human brain. NeuroImage, 204, 116218. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116218, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ej3w2A2c6d3M8-6EsLOULR31Zg-skDfi/view?usp=sharing

Leleu, A.*, Rekow, D.*, Poncet, F.*, Schaal, B., Durand, K., Rossion, B., & J.-Y.  Baudouin. Maternal odor shapes rapid face categorization in the infant brain. Developmental Science, 23(2), e12877. doi:10.1111/desc.12877 *equal contributions, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFuaE0ULjyodpQHohtrQGFIST76Y7XMG/view