Constance Jourdan

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Constance Jourdan

PhD candidate

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Constance holds a master's degree in political science from Freie Universität Berlin. She joined the IDEA lab in 2023–2024 to work with Emmanuel Sander on M.I.A. Seconde, an educational resource offering personalised remediation pathways in mathematics for secondary school students. This work was part of a broader research effort on analogy and on the role of students' intuitive conceptions in learning and in arithmetic problem solving.

She then completed a master's degree in cognitive science at the École normale supérieure–PSL, jointly accredited by the EHESS and Université Paris Cité. Her master thesis, based on an internship at the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (INCC, Université Paris Cité), examined the emergence of sensitivity to sound symbolism in very young children using electroencephalography (EEG).

Since September 2025, Constance has been a teaching and research assistant in the IDEA team. Her doctoral project investigates the structure of mental categories and how those categories shape the analogies people perceive between situations.


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