Guy Cheron
Belgian neuroscientist
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Career
Born in Halle, Belgium, Guy obtained a MS degree in motor sciences and his PhD under the supervision of JE Desmedt at the Brain Research Unit of the Université libre de Bruxelles where he defended an Aggregation Thesis in Neuroscience. He was visiting professor (OTAN-fellow) at the Department of Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. Thereafter he joined the University of Mons as Assistant Professor before becoming head of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Movement Biomechanics at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1992.
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Research
In 1986, he described, together with E. Godaux, the localization of the oculomotor neural integrator (NI) in the nucleus prepositus of the cat. This demonstrated that a brainstem neural network is able to perform mathematical integration. From 1986 to 1997, he worked on the physiological properties of the NI. During the last 20 years, he worked conjunctly in mouse and human neurophysiology. He also found 160–200 Hz oscillation in the cerebellum of different mouse models presenting neurological diseases ranging from cerebellar ataxia, Angelman syndrome, FAS and Steinert disease. He also participated in neuroscience space experiences realized on board of the International Space Station (NeuroCog, NeuroSpat, and Adriadna ESA missions) where his group investigated with EEG dynamics the alteration of top-down signals in visual perception in weightlessness environment. This neurophysiological expertise was also applied in the field of non-invasive BCI (Mindwalker, FP7 project) and in the search of the cerebral oscillations linked to the psychological flow in the top performance.
He is specialty Chief Editor at Frontiers in Psychology, Movement Sciences and Sport Psychology.
Honours and awards
- Officer of the Order of Leopold II for outstanding research activities
- Prix de Biomécanique, Paris, 1987
- Prix MAAF Santé, Montréal, 2000
- Prix Science & Innovation, 2015, Comité Olympique Interfédéral Belge