Role of visual information in speech perception/production development

past project

A general sense of quantity at birth

past project

Building on our previous results on neonates’ perception of numerosities, we demonstrated that, at just a few hours of life, human newborns possess a general sense of quantity that applies equally to numerosity, to spatial extent, and to temporal durations. We...

Prosodic grouping biases from birth to adulthood in monolingual speakers

LangageOP, Ongoing project

The Iambic-trochaic Law (ITL) is an auditory grouping mechanism according to which sequences of sounds varying in intensity/pitch are grouped as trochees, while those varying in duration are grouped as iambs. We showed that the ITL is modulated by native language,...

Characterisation of the processing of acoustic cues and speech processing in noise in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired children with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss – SPINTAE

LangageOP, Ongoing project

Neural processing of temporal modulations and computational modelling – Heardevcomp

LangageOP, Ongoing project

2022-2023 Infants are capable of rapidly acquiring a language through ‘simple’ exposure to speech. This remarkable ability is quite surprising given that the auditory cortex is still developing until the end of adolescence. In adults, studies have shown...