Postdoctoral researcher in behavioural ecology. PhD in cognitive neuroscience. I'm also learning to engage in and promote a better science: open, inclusive, accessible; slow.

A pdf version of my CV can be found here: CV
(Last update: November 2024).

Scientific Production

Publications

Under review or submitted

  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Raymond, M., Cuthill, I., Mendelson, T.C., Renoult, J.P. (in revision). Background-matching patterns are attractive: support for a processing bias. [Preprint].
  • Million, K., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Nasir M., Tucker, S., Mendelson, T.C. (submitted). Assessing the dual utility of nuptial patterns in the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum).
  • Prétôt, L., Agrillo, C., Bluck, B.C., Cabrera-Álvarez, M.J., Héjja-Brichard, Y., … Yeager, J. (submitted). ManyFishes: A big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition.
  • Alessandroni, N. et al. (including Héjja-Brichard, Y.) (submitted). Flexible Behavior or Flexible Methods? A Cross-Taxon Review of Experimental Designs in Reversal Learning. [Preprint].

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • Zaneva, M., Coll-Martín, T., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Kalandadze, T., Kis, A., . . . Zisk, A. H. (2024). Introduction to Neurodiversity: An Annotated Reading List. eLife (doi). [Preprint]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Million, K.M., Renoult, J.P., Mendelson, T.C. (2024). Using neural style transfer to study the evolution of animal signal design: A case study in an ornamented fish. Ecological Informatics (doi). [Preprint]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Renoult, J.P., Mendelson, T.C. (2024). Comparative analysis reveals assortative mate preferences in darters independent of sympathy and sex. Ecology and Evolution (doi). [Preprint]
  • ManyPrimates et al. (including Héjja-Brichard, Y.) (2022). The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition (doi). [Preprint]
  • Guiomar, N., Krol, L.R., Combrisson, E., Dubarry, A.-S., Elliott, M.A., François, C., Héjja-Brichard, Y., … Chaumon, M. (2022). Good Scientific Practice in MEEG research: Progress and Perspectives. Neuroimage (doi). [Preprint]
  • Audurier, P., Héjja-Brichard, Y., De Castro, V., Kohler, P.J., Norcia, A.M., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2021). Symmetry processing in the macaque visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex. (doi). [Preprint] - [Press release]
  • De Castro, V., Smith, A.T., Beer, A.L., Leguen, C., Vayssière, N., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Audurier, P., Cottereau, B.R. & Durand, J.B. (2021). Connectivity of the cingulate sulcus visual area (CSv) in macaque monkeys. Cerebral Cortex (doi).
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Rima, S., Rapha, E., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2020). Stereomotion processing in the non-human primate brain. Cerebral Cortex. (doi). [Preprint & OSF project] - [Press release]
  • Rima, S., Cottereau, B.R., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Trotter, Y. & Durand, J.B. (2020). A new visuotopic cluster in macaque posterior parietal cortex revealed by wide-field retinotopy. Brain Structure and Function. (doi)
  • Chauhan, T., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Cottereau, B.R. (2020). Modelling binocular disparity processing from statistics in natural scenes. Vision Research, 176, 27-39. (doi)
  • Cottereau, B.R., Smith, A.T., Rima, S., Fize, D., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Renaud, L., … Durand, J.-B. (2017). Processing of Egomotion-Consistent Optic Flow in the Rhesus Macaque Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 1-14 (doi).

PhD Thesis

  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. Spatial and temporal integration of binocular disparity in the primate brain. Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier, 2020. [pdf].

Other publications

  • Mascolo, E. & Héjja-Brichard, Y. (submitted). Replicards: Teaching evolution with a card game. [Dedicated website]
  • Open Science Monitoring Initiative (external contributor), Principles of Open Science Monitoring, 2025. (doi)

Oral presentations

Invited talks

  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2025) Of Fishes and Birds: Computational approaches to understanding the evolution of sexual signals signals. Department of Behavioural & Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2024) In Defense of Depth: Slow Science for Sustainable Progress in Ecology and Evolution. Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (online conference).
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2024) Neural style transfer and perceptual distance to test pattern preferences in fish. AI for ecology and evolution seminar, University of Montpellier, France.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2023, June) Computational approaches to understanding the evolution of sexual signal design. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2022, September). AI methods to study sexual selection. Imaginecology2: machine learning for image and sound processing and analysis in ecology, Villeurbanne, France. [slides]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2020, October). Rethinking our Narratives: The Challenge of “Slow Science”. LiveMEEG (online conference) [slides]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. & Mercier M.R. (2018). Data visualisation in cognitive neuroscience: Functional neuroimaging and electrophysiology. Talk given for the Toulouse Data Vizualisation group, Toulouse, France [slides]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. & Cottereau, B.R. (2017). Adaptation aux régularités spatiales de l’environnement au sein de systèmes de vision stéréoscopique. Journée des doctorants, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France

Conference talks

  • Million, K., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Nasir M., Tucker, S., Mendelson, T.C. (2023). Territorial competition and mate choice in the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum). Southeastern Fishes Council 2023 meeting, Chattanooga, TE, USA.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Million, K., Renoult, J.P., Mendelson, T.C. (2023). Using generative artificial intelligence to test hypotheses about animal signal evolution in an ornamented fish. Evolution 2023 meeting, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
  • ManyFishes (incl. Héjja-Brichard, Y.) (2023) Using the detour task to assess inhibitory control across the fish taxon. 30th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne Beach, FL, USA.
  • Renoult, J.P. & Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2022) Using deep neural networks to study the evolution of visual signals. International Conference on Ecological Sciences, SFE2-GfÖ-EEF joint meeting, Metz, France.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2021). Workshop on Research Culture based on the Café Culture Kit developped by the Wellcome Foundation. Conférence Science Ouverte Lente Durable, Nantes, France. [OSF folder with the French (beta) version of the Kit]
  • Audurier, P., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Kohler, P.J., Norcia, A.M., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2019). Processing of rotational symmetry in the non-human primate brain. GDR Vision annual forum, Marseille, France.

Poster presentations

  • Prétôt, L., Bluck, B.C., Cabrera-Álvarez, M.J., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Santacà, M. (2025, Oct). Hold that fin! A big-team dive into fish self-control. Big Team Science Conference, online.
  • MacGillavry, T., Fusani, L., Héjja-Brichard, Y. (2025, July). Victoria’s riflebird males create optical black holes to attract females. Animal Behavior Society, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Million, K.M., Moodie, I.M., Renoult, J.P., Mendelson, T.C. (2024, June). Sensory drive in the era of artificial intelligence: new tools for new experiments. Animal Behavior Society, London, ON, Canada. [Poster]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Raymond, M., Cuthill, I.C., Mendelson, T.C., Renoult, J.P. (2023, Nov.). Visual pattern preferences: Testing the processing bias hypothesis with background-matching stimuli to shed light on signal design evolution. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. [Poster]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Renoult, J.P., Mendelson, T.C. (2022, July). Strength of preference for conspecifics in Darters (genus Etheostoma): A within-lab meta-analysis. Animal Behavior Society, San José, Costa Rica (hybrid format: In-Person and Virtual). [Poster]
  • Audurier, P., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Kohler, P.J., Norcia, A.M., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2019, October). Processing of symmetry in the non-human primate brain. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA.
  • De Castro, V., LeGuen, C., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Audurier, P., Cottereau, B.R., Durand, J.-B. (2019, October). Functional and structural connectivity of the cingulate sulcus visual (CSv) area in macaque monkeys. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA. [Poster]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Bruzzone, S.E.P, Rapha, E., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2019, September). Natural statistics influence depth perception. Predictive brain conference, Marseille, France. [Poster]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Rima, S., Rapha, E., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2018, November). Stereomotion processing in the non-human primate brain. Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA. [Poster]
  • Rima, S., Cottereau, B.R., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Trotter, Y. & Durand, J.-B. (2017, November). Wide-field retinotopy reveals a new visuotopic cluster in IPS. Annual meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Washington, USA. [Poster]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Rima, S., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2017, August). Stereomotion processing in the non-human primate brain. European Conference on Visual Perception, Berlin, Germany. [Poster]
  • Héjja-Brichard, Y., Rima, S., Trotter, Y., Banks, M.S., Durand, J.-B., Cottereau, B.R. (2015, December). Adaptation to the 3D properties of the environment in non-human primates. GDR Vision annual forum, Grenoble, France. [Poster]