Simon Thibault, a cognitive neuroscientist, has been awarded an ILCB postdoctoral fellowship to work in the MeMoPsy team under the mentorship of Dr. Rey (CRPN) and Dr. Chotiga Pattamadilok (LPL). His project investigates sequence learning by exploring the mechanism of chunking across different modalities – e.g., visuo-phonological or visuo-motor. Simon Thibault completed his PhD in cognitive neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Brozzoli and Dr. Roy at the University of Lyon in France. He characterized functional homologies between tool use and language, demonstrating that the ability to process complex syntactic structures in language and the ability to use a tool are linked. Training one ability improves the other one. In 2022, Simon joined Thomas Jefferson University and the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (in Pennsylvania, USA) to work under the mentorship of Drs. Aaron L. Wong and Laurel J. Buxbaum to investigate deficits in using tools and producing action sequences following left hemisphere stroke.