Clara Bourot was awarded a 2023 ILCB PhD grant, to work with Laurence Reboul (I2M), in collaboration with Arnaud Rey (LPC), and Jean-Marc Freyermuth (I2M), to apply statistical modeling of the developmental trajectory of babies’ vocal productions between 0 and 12 months. Clara obtained Bachelor and Master degrees in Mathematics at Aix-Marseille University, and she […]

Ambre Balleroy was awarded a 2023 ILCB PhD fellowship to work with Thomas Schatz (LIS), Claire Kabdebon (LPC) and Ricard Marxer (LIS). Her PhD project focuses on computational modeling of speech perception in infants. She previously obtained a master’s degree in cognitive science and a bachelor’s degree in language science.

Camilla Di Pasquasio is a psychologist with a MSc in Neuroscience. She was awarded a 2023 ILCB PhD fellowship to work with Dr. Thierry Chaminade (INT), in collaboration with Dr. Brigitte Bigi (LPL). Her project will include the analysis of brain and physiological responses involved in sensorimotor and contextual information during a behavioral protocol testing […]

Jacques Pesnot Lerousseau received a 2023 ILCB post-doc fellowship to work with Benjamin Morillon (INS), in collaboration with Valentin Wyart (ENS) and Jean-Rémi King (ENS). His project will address the question of “in-context learning” in human brains and artificial neural networks, aiming to uncover the mechanisms behind rule generalization in the brain and algorithms. As a […]

Katherine Bryant was awarded a 2023 ILCB post-doc fellowship to work with Adrien Meguerditchian (LPC) and Olivier Coulon (INT). Her project will address the anatomic changes that occur in baboon development from birth to adulthood, with a special focus on lateralization of grey and white matter. The analysis of these data will permit greater insight […]

Ricard Marxer is a professor at the University of Toulon and researcher at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS). He was previously a post-doctoral researcher in the Speech and Hearing Group (University of Sheffield) and obtained his PhD in the Music Technology Group (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). His research focuses on the development and use of […]

For anyone involved with the ILCB, Nadéra Bureau needs no introduction, but… did you know that she holds an Assistant Manager degree and that she has been with us since 2012, first as the administrative and financial manager of the Labex Brain and Language Research Institute (BLRI) and then as the administrative and financial manager […]

Fabienne Delfour teaches at the veterinary school in Toulouse. She was scientific director of the dolphinarium at Parc Astérix from 2006 to its closure in 2021, and associate researcher at the Laboratoire d’Ethologie Expérimentale et Appliquée at Paris 13 University from 2014 to 2020. Before that, she was an associate researcher at the University of […]

Thomas Schatz is an assistant professor at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS). He joined the LIS in 2021 after his postdoctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Maryland (UMD), both in Naomi Feldman’s lab. He had previously obtained his PhD from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in […]

Christine Meunier is the new director of the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). She joined this laboratory in 1998 after working four years as a postdoctoral researcher in Genera with U.H. Frauenfelder (Psycholinguistic Laboratory). Her research explores speech production and perception. She is interested in speech variation according to various factors such as speech situation, […]