LangageOP, Ongoing project
2026 – 2030 Exposure to two languages from birth is becoming increasingly common, but it remains unclear how the brain develops them in parallel. Our aim is to study lexico-semantic organisation in bilingual infants, in order to explore the internal structure of...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
At the INCC “Multilingual language and thought: cross-linguistic and neurocognitive trajectories of conceptualization across the lifespan” This project aims to distinguish universal components of cognition from those that vary as a function of language typology,...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
2025 – 2028 nfants acquire language on the basis of an acoustic signal – the sounds of speech – which is complex and uninterrupted. We do not pause (remain silent) between each word, and yet a young child aged 2 already understands around a hundred words. Young...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
2025 – 2027 Canada In this project, we are testing how infants react to hearing voices that either sound more artificial (machine-like), more human (human-like), or even more familiar (voice clone of the infant’s mother). Project team lead Henny Yeung...
LangageOP, Ongoing project
2025 – 2029 From the periphery, up to the central nervous system, the human auditory pathway analysis the complex acoustic properties of speech sounds. Although these auditory structures are not mature till the end of adolescence, infants efficiently tuned to...
Ongoing project, Soc&FoodOP
2025 – 2029 Children’s learning often benefits from explicit external feedback on their performance, such as guidance from adults. However, children also frequently acquire knowledge with minimal external input. The LUCID project aims to investigate this...
