Alexandre Pouget is a full Professor at the University of Geneva in the department of basic neurosciences.
He received his undergraduate education at the École normale supérieure (Paris), before moving to the Salk Institute in 1988 to pursue a PhD in computational neuroscience in Terry Sejnowski's laboratory.
This approach is built on the notion that knowledge in the brain takes the form of probability distributions and new knowledge is acquired via probabilistic inference in contrast to the more classical approach to rationality that relies on pure logic.
He is currently deploying this framework to a wide range of topics including olfactory processing, spatial representations, sensory-motor transformations, multisensory integration, perceptual learning, attentional control, visual search and decision making.
[8][9] Alexandre Pouget is featured in Jean-Stephane Bron's movie 'The brain'('Cinq nouvelles du cerveau', 2022).