Ria Dutta

Master 2 intern

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Language is an undeniable part of cognition, but how does it all begin?

 

I am Ria Dutta, in second-year Master’s student in Neuroscience at Sorbonne University. I seek to explore the neurocognitive mechanisms of language bias acquisition (consonant or vowel bias) on 20 months old monolingual infants. I am currently working under the supervision of Chloe Metz and Thierry Nazzi.

 

I use electrophysiological measures (i.e., ERP) to identify how the brain (at 20 months) processes the words spoken to them. The goal is to identify if the brain is able to detect the differences between known, mispronounced and unknown words. Knowing this difference highlights an important developmental milestone in the infant’s brain. My project is a part of the bigger research project group that seeks to explore these key milestone developments in infants of even younger ages.