Patty Garet
Babylab manager and research assistant
Independent linguist (with a Ph.D from the University Paris Cité, since 2021), I support Maxine and Viviane in their activities for the smooth running of the Babylab, as a part-time labmanager and research assistant in the field of language acquisition.
I am present on Wednesdays, Friday afternoons and Saturdays.
Furthermore, I have a particular interest in interfaces with ethology (including a passion for animal cognition).
But also, between linguistics and social issues, and how they are played out, in and through language (e.g. feminism, anti-racism, queer issues, inclusivity, etc.).
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Access to my academic Linguist page (research, teaching): llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Garet
Access to my professional website: pattygaret.com (Ma Web Voice)
Independent linguist and actress, inclusive language consulting and training, voice-over, subtitling, animal care.
Ongoing project
Mental Space in Memory through Adversarial Collaboration: Exploring the Origins and the Developmental Course – SPACEODC
Human beings tend to spontaneously use space to think, represent externally (e.g. calendars) and even talk about a variety of non-spatial domains (e.g. time). This ability is functional from birth, how it is modulated throughout the first years of life, what are its behavioral signatures and underlying biases. Finally, we will examine whether, and how, this capacity has an impact on learning in different information domains, from birth to adulthood.
Project team lead
Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia
The origins and development of the mental timeline
The ability to represent abstract concepts sets humans apart from all other animals. For example, although we cannot see or touch time, we possess rich temporal representations. What enables this cognitive feat?
How Domain-general Functions Contribute to the Development of Numerical Competencies – DFCDNC
The project aims at disentangling the differential contribution of domain-general (i.e. inhibition and attention) and domain-specific factors to the development numerical competencies such as mental arithmetic in infancy and childhood.
Geometries Return
Building on a previous ANR project (“Geometries”), this new project aims at characterizing the geometric content of form representations across a variety of formats (2D, 3D), presentation modalities (vision, touch), ages (infants, children, adults), and visual experience (sighted and blind participants).
Project team lead
Véronique Izard
Linking early phonolexical acquisition and later vocabulary development
In this project, we test the proposal that a crucial milestone in language acquisition is reached when infants discover which sounds (consonants versus vowels) are more important at the lexical level in their native language, leading to an acceleration of subsequent vocabulary development.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Study of Visual Fixation in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
This project will measure visual fixation capabilities in 3 participant populations (Typical Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Cerebral Visual Impairment) to evaluate the prevalence of CVI in the ASD population.
Projet team lead
Sylvie Chokron
Projet team lead
Marie PIeron
Early development of cerebral representations of the body in infants: explorations in neuroimaging and behaviour
The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of how a baby’s brain perceives and represents different parts of its body in the first few months after birth, using functional magnetic resonance imaging and behavioural assessments.
Project collaborator
Marianne Barbu-Roth
Effect of early training in crawling using a mini skateboard on the locomotor and motor development of very premature cerebral palsy patients
The project consists of evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of 8 weeks of early stimulation training in quadruped walking on a mini skateboard, the Crawli skate, in 50 very premature babies at high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders and followed longitudinally.
Project collaborator
Marianne Barbu-Roth
Ticoala
Adaptation of a digital tool for assessing children’s language skills in nursery school.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Project team lead
Ranka Bijeljac-Babić
Recognition of faces at birth
This project aims to identify the different components of children’s interest when observing faces speaking and looking towards them or not.
Project team lead
Arlette Streri
Hearing development and speech perception in noise in children with cochlear implants
In this study we seek to better understand the capacity of the children’s auditory system to process non-linguistic acoustic signals, for children with implants but also for children with normal hearing.
Project team lead
Laurianne Cabrera
Development of speech perception in noise
This project specifically aims to characterize the sensory and non-sensory mechanisms involved in the development of speech perception in noise in normal-hearing and hard-of-hearing children.
Project team lead
Laurianne Cabrera
From object perception to tool use in early infancy
This project aims to understand how babies perceive you, assimilate actions with objects and then be able to manipulate them.
Project team lead
Jacqueline Fagard
Constructing Mathematical Knowledge beyond Core Intuitions (MathConstruction)
The aim of the European project “MathConstruction”, led by Véronique Izard, was to understand the mechanisms for acquiring mathematical knowledge by focusing on two very specific study cases: numbers and angles in the plane.
Project team lead
Véronique Izard
Uncovering the precursors of language in the infant brain
How do early linguistic experience and initial perceptual abilities in utero influence each other during language acquisition? We will examine early linguistic development and its neural bases.
Project team lead
Judith Gervain
Interactions between prosody and grammar from birth to adulthood
When do infants first show sensitivity to prosody and how do they use it to learn grammar?
Project team lead
Judith Gervain
Lexical learning
Our project aims to determine which cognitive and developmental factors contribute to the activation of brain patterns during word learning and recognition in young children using the event-related potential technique.
Project team lead
Pia Rämä
The Real of Magnitude Representations: Origins and Neural Basis (NUMPSA)
Magnitude corresponds to the ability to discriminate and represent magnitude information. Studies on newborns from a few hours old, and on pre-verbal babies in the first year of life, to establish the origins, neural bases and characteristics of the ability to represent magnitude information.
Project team lead
Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia
Intuitive Foundations for Geometry: Euclidean geometry and beyond – Geometries
This project aims to characterize geometry on different axes through geometry based on spontaneous intuitions for angles, invariance phenomena, or even reasoning in geometries.
Project team lead
Véronique Izard
Mechanisms of Early Language Acquisition : Brain and Behavior (MELA)
This project explores how young children are guided by their perceptual and learning abilities during their first steps towards language. Our main objective is to understand how early perception and learning abilities are articulated during the acquisition of the most fundamental properties of the mother tongue.
Project team lead
Judith Gervain
Scene perception and semantics
Our goal in the current project is to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the development of semantic scene knowledge and the detection of semantic incongruence in visual scenes.
Project team lead
Pia Rämä
What makes newborn walking: role of visual and somesthesic stimulation
Project team lead
Marianne Barbu- Roth
Spatial components of numerical and ordinal information: origins and development
Project team lead
Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia
ERC Advanced Grant FEEL and GoalRobots
Project team lead
Kevin O'Regan
Project team lead
Jacqueline Fagard
The efficient neural coding of sounds
Project team lead
Judith Gervain
Role of visual information in speech perception/production development
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Project team lead
Arlette Streri
A general sense of quantity at birth
Project team lead
Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia
Prosodic grouping biases from birth to adulthood in monolingual speakers
This project studies how adults and young children use variations in intensity, duration and intonation to group syllables into word units.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
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
In this large-scale study, we aim to evaluate the processing abilities of different acoustic indices between 5 and 10 years of age in children without hearing problems and those with sensorineural hearing loss.
Project team lead
Laurianne Cabrera
Neural processing of temporal modulations and computational modelling – Heardevcomp
The processing of acoustic information, such as variations in sound amplitude over time called “sound envelope”, is of crucial importance for speech perception in adults. We will seek to characterize the evolution of sound envelope processing during development in infants.
Project team lead
Laurianne Cabrera
Perception of sibilant consonants and understanding of plurals in hearing-impaired children – LaulauH
The objective is to understand to what extent a deficit in perception of certain sounds, such as “s” and “z”, when they are heard in background noise, can have an impact on oral comprehension of the plural in subject-verb agreement.
Project team lead
Laurianne Cabrera
Development of the auditory system and speech perception in infants- BabySIN
On the one hand, the cerebral processing of different acoustic variations of sounds is studied in 3-month-old infants using the electroencephalography technique. On the other hand, the ability to perceive speech in noise in these infants is measured using an observation technique.
Project team lead
Laurianne Cabrera
Proccesing phonological information while learning and recognizing words
It has been proposed that consonants carry more weight than vowels in lexical processing. Given the timing of acquisition observed in French, we have proposed that this consonant bias emerges in connection with phonological and (proto)lexical acquisition, a hypothesis we are currently testing.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Predicting language outcomes in typical development
We explore how elementary perception and learning mechanisms are linked to language acquisition. To this end, we test infants on different perception and learning mechanisms, at different stages of their development and up to 2-3 years of age.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Vicarious Social Touch perception in infants
The aim of this project is to investigate the physiological, behavioural and neural responses of infants to social-tactile interactions.
Project team lead
Olivier Mascaro
Project team lead
Louise Krisch
FoundTrust: The neurocognitive bases of epistemic trust
The willingness to believe communicated information (or epistemic trust) plays a central role in human cognitive development. The aim of this project is to characterize its development in the first years of life.
Project team lead
Olivier Mascaro
Language acquisition in atypical development
Knowing the mechanisms underlying typical language acquisition also makes it possible to explore whether or not these mechanisms are present in populations with atypical language acquisition and could be involved in their learning difficulties.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Origin of a numerical mental line
In adults, the existence of a mental number line (the representation of smaller quantities on the left and larger quantities on the right) has been demonstrated. But what about newborns?
Project team lead
Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia
Numbers in Action: Origins and Dévelopental course – NUMACT
This project studies the appearance, properties and development of the link between number and the performance of an action using behavioural, electrophysiological and electromyographic measurements in human newborns and infants.
Project team lead
Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia
Lexical-semantic development
Our studies aim to understand the neural mechanisms underlying this development in monolingual and bilingual children.
Project team lead
Pia Rämä