Visualization of an EEG experiment involving a “Go/NoGo” task conducted as part of a study on the effect of pre-motor activity on the processing of action words. The experiment was conducted in a fully immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. Ana Zappa, Deirdre Bolger, Jean-Marie Pergandi, et al. 2019. Brain and Cognition 134 : 44–57.

Breathing plays a fundamental role in speech production of human adults. The capacity of controlling breathing develops over the first year of life, a critical period for babbling. We tracked one infant from about 7 to 9 months of age, measuring breathing and vocalization during spontaneous interactions with the mother. Analysis of the acoustic (waveform, […]

Three dimensional animation of cortical surface projections showing the involvement of temporal voice areas through activations related to formant salience (FS, light green), voice processing (Voice, blue), and their overlap (FS & Voice, dark green). Color shades indicate significant T-values (FWE-corrected) from seven participants. Katia Domenech, 2025. “Traitement cérébral des formants de la voix chez […]

The folding patterns of various sulci were measured in structural MRI scans from children (ages 8–11) and adults (ages 20–40). In both groups, variations in the occipito-temporal sulcus were associated with reading and writing scores. Also in both groups, asymmetry of the anterior cinculate cortex was specifically linked to graphomotor performance, highlighting the role of […]

MEG-GLOUPS a curated dataset of raw magneto-encephalography (MEG) recordings from French speakers completing a pseudo-word learning task, along with resting-state recordings before and after the task. The seventeen participants pronounced visually and auditorily presented pseudo-words that followed or violated French phonotactic rules. The dataset adheres to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard and includes […]

MarmAudio is a database of common marmoset vocalisations, recorded from an animal facility that houses around 20 marmosets in three cages. The dataset comprises more than 800,000 files of a few seconds each, amounting to 253 hours of data. These recordings capture the marmosets’ social vocalisations, encompassing their entire known vocal repertoire. The vocalisations were […]

We explored knowledge transfer capabilities of pre-trained speech models with vocalizations from the closest living relatives of humans: non-human primates. We assessed model performance in identifying individual gibbons based on their songs using linear probing. When compared to models pre-trained on bird songs or general audio, speech-based models appear to produce rich bioacoustic representations, encoding […]

Prior research has shown that laughter is closely linked to pragmatic development in preschoolers. Our study examined how children (6–10 y/o) and adults align through laughter. In our data, children laugh as frequently as adults, but their mimicry and acoustic alignment differ. In adults (parent interacting with child, PwC),  Mimicking (Mim) and Isolated (Iso) laughter […]

The ability to understand speech in one’s native language is thought to be universal. This intuitive assumption implies that literate and illiterate individuals share at least the most basic speech processing skill that allows them to recognise spoken words. Our study provides neurophysiological evidence (Mismatch Negativity) against this claim by showing that speech representations stored […]

Handwriting is a complex activity involving temporal and rhythmic organization. We tested whether this graphic movement can be influenced by listening to rhythmic cues. Second and Fifth Graders were asked to trace loops while listening to (i) a melodic background without a metronome, (ii) a melodic background with a slow metronome (1.6 Hz), or (iii) […]