Sabrina Boulkour

Discipline(s)

Sciences cognitives

Activities / CV

MY THESIS
The conceptual and cognitive bases of food neophobia in children aged from 3 to 6 years
Summary of the thesis

ATTACHMENTS
Laboratory for Research on Learning and Developement (LEAD) – CNRS UMR 5022 – Doctoral School Environnement-Health (ED 554) – Université de Bourgone

BACKGROUND

• 2022 – 2025 : PHD Student at Laboratory for Research on Learning and Developement of Université de Bourgogne and at the Institut Lyfe Research Center in psychology under Jean-Pierre Thibaut and Jérémie Lafraire.
• 2020 – 2022 : Master in Cognitive Science, speciality in Applied and Fundamental Cognitive Science, Université Lumière Lyon II
• 2017 – 2020 : Licence in Psychology, path in clinical psychology and psychopathology, Université de Rouen-Normandie

Additional information

ACTIVITIES
Main goal : Identify for children aged 3 to 6, the different types of food knowledge that they possess, the implication of this knoweldge in their relationship to food rejections, whether in the conceptual or cognitive domain.

Specifics goals :

• Compare the content and nature of food knowledge between neophobic and neophilic children.
• Determine the cognitive mechanisms involved in children's food representations.
• Provide lines of thought and recommendations to increase children's acceptability of eating a wider variety of foods.