Graph Theoretical Analysis Reveals the Functional Role of the Left Ventral Occipito-Temporal Cortex in Speech Processing.

Shuai Wang, Samuel Planton, Valérie Chanoine, Julien Sein, Jean-Luc Anton, Bruno Nazarian, Anne-Sophie Dubarry, Christophe Pallier, and Chotiga Pattamadilok. 2022, Scientific Reports 12 (1): 20028  — @HAL The left ventral occipito-temporal cortex (left-vOT) plays a key role in reading. Interestingly, the area also responds to speech input, suggesting that it may have other functions beyond […]

Sequence Organization and Embodied Mutual Orientations: Openings of Social Interactions between Baboons.

Lorenza Mondada and Adrien Meguerditchian 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377 (1859): 20210101 — @HAL Human interactions are organized in sequence, which is a key component of Levinson’s “interaction engine.” Referring back to the field where it originated, Conversation Analysis, we discuss its relevance within the interaction engine, before moving […]

Challenges and New Perspectives of Developmental Cognitive EEG Studies.

Estelle Hervé, Giovanni Mento, Béatrice Desnous, and Clément François. 2022, NeuroImage 260: 119508  — @HAL Despite shared procedures with adults, electroencephalography (EEG) in early development presents many specificities that need to be considered for good quality data collection. In this paper, we provide an overview of the most representative early cognitive developmental EEG studies focusing […]

What Do We Mean with Sound Semantics, Exactly? A Survey of Taxonomies and Ontologies of Everyday Sounds.

Bruno L. Giordano, Ricardo de Miranda Azevedo, Yenisel Plasencia-Calaña, Elia Formisano, and Michel Dumontier. 2022, Frontiers in Psychology 13: 964209  — @HAL Taxonomies and ontologies for the characterization of everyday sounds have been developed in several research fields, including auditory cognition, soundscape research, artificial hearing, sound design, and medicine. Here, we surveyed 36 of such […]

Evidence for Compositionality in Baboons (Papio Papio) through the Test Case of Negation.

Isabelle Dautriche, Brian Buccola, Melissa Berthet, Joel Fagot, and Emmanuel Chemla. 2022, Scientific Reports 12 (1): 19181  — @HAL Can non-human animals combine abstract representations much like humans do with language? In particular, can they entertain a compositional representation such as ‘not blue’? Across two experiments, we demonstrate that baboons (Papio papio) show a capacity […]

Maternal Cradling Bias in Baboons: The First Environmental Factor Affecting Early Infant Handedness Development?

Grégoire Boulinguez-Ambroise, Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Éloïse Disarbois, and Adrien Meguerditchian. 2022, Developmental Science 25 (1) — @HAL The most emblematic behavioral manifestation of human brain asymmetries is handedness. While the precise mechanisms behind the development of handedness are still widely debated, empirical evidences highlight that besides genetic factors, environmental factors may play a crucial role. As […]

Structural Brain Asymmetries for Language: A Comparative Approach across Primates.

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 […]

Learning English with Peppa Pig

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 […]