Projects

Ongoing projects

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).

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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.

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
Projet team lead

Sylvie Chokron


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Projet team lead

Marie PIeron

Ticoala

Adaptation of a digital tool for assessing children’s language skills in nursery school.

Project team lead
Project team lead

Thierry Nazzi


 Project team lead
Project team lead

Ranka Bijeljac-Babić

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.

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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
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
Project team lead

Thierry Nazzi

Past projects

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.

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Project team lead

Arlette Streri

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
Project team lead

Laurianne Cabrera

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
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
Project team lead

Maria Dolores (Lola) de Hevia

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.

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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
Project team lead

Pia Rämä