Projects
Ongoing projects
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
Lexical-semantic development
Our studies aim to understand the neural mechanisms underlying this development in monolingual and bilingual children.
Project team lead
Pia Rämä
Acquisition of phonological biases in lexical processing
We aim to understand how different types of sounds, as well as their arrangements within the words of a language, influence the acquisition and lexical processing of French, German, and Franco-German bilingual speakers.
Project team lead
Thierry Nazzi
Vocabulary growth and sound symbolism
Our aim is to study whether the sensitivity to sound symbolism in infancy is linked to emerging vocabulary skills.
Project team lead
Pia Rämä
Voice familiarity in the processing of word meanings
This project aims to investigate whether familiarity with the speaker’s voice facilitates lexical-semantic processing in infants.
Project team lead
Pia Rämä
Investigating cognitive processes underlying food learning in infancy -F.E.E.D your mind
The aim of the F.E.E.D. your mind project is to shed light on the cognitive processes underlying food learning in infancy and provide empirical bases to design such interventions
Project team lead
Camille Rioux
Past projects
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
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
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