Cette thèse présente quelques résultats d’analyse sur les espaces Lp le plus souvent non commutatifs.La première partie exhibe de large classes de contractions sur des espaces Lp non commutatifsqui vérifient l’analogue non commutatif de la conjecture de Matsaev. De plus, cette partie fournitune comparaison entre certaines normes apparaissant naturellement dans ce domaine. La deuxièmepartie traite des fonctions carrées. Le premier résultat principal énonce que si T est un opérateurR-Ritt sur un espace Lp alors les fonctions carrées associées sont équivalentes. Le second résultatprincipal est une caractérisation de certaines estimations carrées utilisant les dilatations. La troisièmepartie de cette thèse introduit de nouvelles fonctions carrées pour les opérateurs de Ritt définis surdes espaces Lp non commutatifs. Le résultat principal est qu’en général ces fonctions carrées ne sontpas équivalentes. Cette partie contient aussi un résultat d’équivalence entre la norme usuelle et unecertaine fonction carrée. La quatrième partie introduit un analogue non commutatif de l’algèbre deFigà-Talamanca-Herz Ap(G) sur le prédual naturel de l’espace d’opérateurs Mp,cb des multiplicateursde Schur complètement bornées sur l’espace de Schatten Sp. / This thesis presents some results of analysis in Lp-spaces, especially often noncommutative. Thefirst part exhibits large classes of contractions on noncommutative Lp-spaces which satisfy the noncommutativeanalogue of Matsaev’s conjecture. Moreover, this part gives a comparison between variousnorms arising naturally from this field. The second part is devoted to square functions. The firstmain result states that if T is an R-Ritt operator on a Lp-space then the involved square functionsare equivalent. The second principal result is a characterization of some square functions estimatesin terms of dilations. In the third part of this thesis, we introduce some new square functions forRitt operators defined on noncommutative Lp-spaces. The main result is that these square functionsare generally not equivalent. This part also contains a result of equivalence between the usual normand some special square function. The fourth part introduces a noncommutative analogue of theFigà-Talamanca-Herz algebra Ap(G) on the natural predual of the operator space Mp,cb of completelybounded Schur multipliers on the Schatten space Sp.

We recently showed that incentive motivation improves the precision of the Approximate Number System (ANS) in young adults. To shed light on the development of incentive motivation, the present study investigated whether this effect and its underlying mechanisms may also be observed in younger samples. Specifically, seven-year-old children (n = 23; 12 girls) and 14-year-old adolescents (n = 30; 15 girls) performed a dot comparison task with monetary reward incentives. Both age groups showed higher accuracy in a reward compared to a neutral condition and, similarly, higher processing efficiency as revealed by the drift rate parameter of the EZ-diffusion model. Furthermore, in line with the Incentive Salience Hypothesis, phasic pupil dilations—indicating the activation of the brain’s salience network—were greater in incentivized trials in both age groups. Together these finding suggest that incentive modulation improves numerosity discrimination in children and adolescents by enhancing the perceptual saliency of numerosity information. However, the observed reward anticipation effects were less pronounced in children relative to adolescents. Furthermore, unlike previous findings regarding young adults, the decision thresholds of children and adolescents were not raised by the monetary reward, which may indicate a more protracted development of incentive regulation of response caution than perceptual evidence accumulation.