Yannick Becker and Adrien Meguerditchian. 2022, Symmetry 14 (5): 876 — @HAL Humans are the only species that can speak. Nonhuman primates, however, share some ‘domain-general’ cognitive properties that are essential to language processes. Whether these shared cognitive properties between humans and nonhuman primates are the results of a continuous evolution [homologies] or of a […]

Kerri M. Bailey, Bruno L Giordano, Amanda L Kaas, and Fraser W Smith. 2022, Cerebral Cortex, bhac296  — @HAL Neurons, even in the earliest sensory regions of cortex, are subject to a great deal of contextual influences from both within and across modality connections. Recent work has shown that primary sensory areas can respond to […]

Mitja Nikolaus, Afra Alishahi, and Grzegorz Chrupała Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022, 10: 922–36  — @HAL Recent computational models of the acquisition of spoken language via grounding in perception exploit associations between spoken and visual modalities and learn to represent speech and visual data in a joint vector space. A major unresolved […]

Camille L. Grasso, Johannes C. Ziegler, Jennifer T. Coull, and Marie Montant. PLOS ONE 17 (10): e0276273, 2022 — @HAL How do people grasp the abstract concept of time? It has been argued that abstract concepts, such as future and past , are grounded in sensorimotor experience. When responses to words that refer to the […]

Daniela de Andrade Morange, Virginie Laguitton, Romain Carron, Daniele Schön, Christian-George Bénar, Bernard Giusiano, Fabrice Bartolomei, and Agnès Trébuchon. Clinical Neurophysiology, 2022, 52 (4): 323–32 — @HAL Objectives: To assess hippocampal function during stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) investigations through the study of the medial temporal lobe event-related potential (ERP) MTL-P300. Methods: We recorded the MTL-P300 during a […]

Yufei Tan, Valérie Chanoine, Eddy Cavalli, Jean-Luc Anton, and Johannes C. Ziegler. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16: 919465 — @HAL The noisy computation hypothesis of developmental dyslexia (DD) is particularly appealing because it can explain deficits across a variety of domains, such as temporal, auditory, phonological, visual and attentional processes. A key prediction is that […]

Ludivine Javourey, Drevet, Stéphane Dufau, Johannes C. Ziegler, & Núria Gala Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022  —  @HAL In this paper, we present HIBOU, an eBook application initially developed for iOs, displaying adapted texts (i.e. simplified), and proposing text comprehension activities. The application has been used in six elementary schools in France to evaluate […]

Auriane Boudin, Roxane Bertrand, Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache, & Stéphane Rauzy Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022 — @HAL The aim of this study is to investigate conversational feedback that contains smiles and laughter. Firstly, we propose a statistical analysis of smiles and laughter used as generic and specific feedback in a corpus of French […]

Isabelle Dautriche, Louise Goupil, Kenny Smith, Hugh Rabagliati Psychological Science, 2022. — @HAL We studied the fundamental issue of whether children evaluate the reliability of their language interpretation, that is, their confidence in understanding words. In two experiments, 2-year-olds (Experiment 1: N = 50; Experiment 2: N = 60) saw two objects and heard one […]

Svetlana Pinet, Christelle Zielinski, F.-Xavier Alario, & Marieke Longcamp Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022, 7 (1), 77  —  @HAL Typing has become a pervasive mode of language production worldwide, with keyboards fully integrated in a large part of many daily activities. The bulk of the literature on typing expertise concerns highly trained professional touch-typists, […]