The Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain (ILCB) is deeply saddened by the passing of Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, a colleague, friend, and one of the leading figures in international research on reading acquisition and literacy development. Liliane was emeritus CNRS researcher at the Centre for Research in Psychology and Neuroscience CRPN. Throughout her distinguished career, […]

Marvin Lavechin has recently joined CNRS as chargé de recherche at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS) in Marseille. He completed his PhD at Meta AI and the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS, Paris), followed by postdocs at GIPSA-lab (Grenoble), and then at the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab (MIT) and the Bergelson Lab (Harvard), […]

Prof. Sonja Kotz, a long-standing member of the ILCB International Advisory Board, is starting a sabbatical at Aix-Marseille Université this month. Sonja Kotz is Professor of Neuropsychology and Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). Her research explores body-brain-behaviour dynamics related to temporal (when) and content (what) predictions in audition, speech, and music across […]

The ILCB is delighted to welcome Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge), a leading figure in cognitive developmental neuroscience and educational research. A member of the ILCB International Advisory Board, she was recently awarded the prestigious Doctor Honoris Causa by Aix-Marseille University. Usha Goswami is Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for […]

As part of the Cognitive Engineering course (UE Ingénierie Cognitive), MaSCo students—divided into five groups—designed and developed innovative projects based on the measurement of physiological or behavioral signals. These projects required skills in data analysis, experimental design, and the development of technological tools (sensors, virtual reality, etc.). The final presentations took place on January 30, […]

Claire Kabdebon is a developmental neuroscientist at CRPN, which she joined in 2023 as CNRS researcher. Her work explores the neural underpinnings of human learning, with a special focus on language acquisition. Using electroencephalography, she investigates how the developing brain discovers and encodes the sounds and structure of language. She was recently awarded with a […]

Some members of ILCB’s directory board planning 2026 projects and activities over lunch at the recent New Year board meeting.

Nicolas Claidiere is a CNRS Research Director at CRPN, where he co-leads the development and phylogeny research group (DePhy) and directs the Primate Cognition and Behaviour platform. His research lies at the intersection between psychology, animal behaviour, and evolutionary biology, with a focus on understanding how social behaviour emerges, spreads, and evolves. Using a comparative […]

Aline Frey (MdC, CRPN) has been awarded the price “Prix Chercheurs en Actes” in the category “Elementary School” for her ongoing project “Chant et Ecriture Créative au Quotidien” conducted with Gisèle Traversa (School Teacher), Stéphanie Miolan (School Principal), Nathalie Bonnardel (professor, PsyClé), and Cédric Hubert (PhD Student, CRPN & PsyClé). Congratulations to all from ILCB!

Prof. Friedemann Pulvermüller of the Freie Universität Berlin unexpectedly passed away a few weeks ago. Friedemann was a towering figure in the neurobiology of language and a much respected and appreciated collaborator of our Institute. Friedemann’s research embodied the true spirit of our Institute, by seamlessly merging the fields of linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience to […]