In English:

Social Cognition & Affective Neurosciences in Neurodegeneration (SCANN) is a research group within the Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Center (Inserm) and the Memory Resource and Research Center (CMRR) at Lille University Hospital (CHU de Lille), based in Lille, France.  The group is part of the Inserm team “INTERACTIONS” (INTEgrative Research in AffectIve, CogniTIve and sOcial NeuroSciences), directed by Drs. M. Bertoux and F. D’Hondt.

Our group aims to investigate the neural, cognitive, affective, and societal mechanisms involved in social interactions, and to develop new diagnostic and assessment tools for brain disorders.

SCANN relies on different methodological approaches from experimental & social psychology, theoretical & clinical neuropsychology, data-driven statistics, artifical intelligence, and brain imaging, with both neurotypical participants and patients with focal brain lesion or, more frequently, patients with a neuro-evolutive condition.

Advocating a collaborative vision of research, SCANN is the coordinating team of the international network on Social Cognition Disorders (IN-SCD) and of the DISCeRN consortium, funded by the European Union.