Mental Space in Memory through Adversarial Collaboration: Exploring the Origins and the Developmental Course – SPACEODC

mathOP, Ongoing project

2025 – 2029 Humans tend to spontaneously use space in order to think, externally represent (e.g., calendars), and even talk about a variety of non-spatial domains (e.g., time). The general consensus is that mentally spatializing information constitutes a...

The origins and development of the mental timeline

mathOP, Ongoing project

XXXX-XXXX 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? As evidenced by language, gesture, and...

How Domain-general Functions Contribute to the Development of Numerical Competencies – DFCDNC

past project

2018-2022 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. During three...

Uncovering the precursors of language in the infant brain 

Non classé

2013-2015 Infants’ journey into the realm of language starts before they amaze their parents with their first babbles. Indeed, they already learn from the speech they hear in the womb. How does early experience interact with initial perceptual abilities early in life...

Prosodic grouping biases from birth to adulthood in monolingual speakers

LangageOP, Ongoing project

The Iambic-trochaic Law (ITL) is an auditory grouping mechanism according to which sequences of sounds varying in intensity/pitch are grouped as trochees, while those varying in duration are grouped as iambs. We showed that the ITL is modulated by native language,...