Sophie Herment is the new deputy director of Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). Sophie is full Professor at the Département d’études du monde anglophone (DEMA) of Aix-Marseille University. She works mainly on prosody. Her research interests concern the interface between prosody and syntax in discourse, the intonation of English varieties, the prosody of L2 English […]

After beginning his career as a CNRS researcher in Experimental Psychology in Paris in 1988, Jonathan Grainger founded and directed the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (LPC – CNRS & Aix-Marseille University) from 2000 to 2012. During this period, the LPC joined two other CNRS labs to create the Pôle 3C (now the Fédération 3C). He […]

  Kate Watkins is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Experimental Psychology and St Anne’s College, University of Oxford.  She is the current Holder of the ILCB IMERA Chair and based in Marseille until March 2023.  Kate is interested in the brain processes involved in speech and language.  Her research group uses […]

Sabrina Rodrigues is the new information and communication manager of ILCB. After working in communication and education, she resumed her studies in Neuroscience in November 2017. She graduated valedictorian with a Master in Neuroscience specialized in Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Neuroscience from Aix-Marseille University in June 2022. After the current one-year stint with us at […]

Florence Bouhali was awarded a 2022 ILCB post-doc fellowship to work with Johannes Ziegler (LPC) and Chotiga Pattamadilok (LPL), in collaboration with Fumiko Hoeft (UConn/UCSF). Her project will address the variability in the reading brain network across languages, individuals and contexts, to clarify how the size of orthographic units used for reading (from single letters […]

Margaux Lê was awarded a 2022 ILCB post-doc grant to conduct a project on rhythmic skills in dysgraphia with Marianne Jover (PsyClé), Aline Frey (LNC), and Jeremy Danna (LNC, CLLE). Margaux started to investigate rhythmic processing in children with neuro-developmental disorders (DCD and/or DD) with Jessica Tallet during her MSc at the University of Toulouse. She […]

Shreejata Gupta was awarded a 2022 ILCB Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will study how the perception and use of gestures by infants could be an excellent window to peek into their pre-verbal minds in order to understand early development of empathy. In collaboration with Isabelle Dautriche (LPC) and Clément François (LPL), Shreejata will combine eyetracking, EEG […]

Jules Cauzinille was awarded a 2022 ILCB PhD grant to conduct a project under the supervision of Benoît Favre (LIS), in collaboration with Arnaud Rey (LPC), Thierry Legou (LPL), and Ricard Marxer (Université de Toulon). Jules obtained a bachelor’s degree in computational linguistics and a master’s degree in natural language processing at Université Paris Cité. […]

Bissera Ivanova was awarded a 2022 ILCB PhD grant to conduct a project under the supervision of Kristof Strijkers (LPL), Benjamin Morillon (INS), and Liina Pylkkänen  from New York University (NYU), to explore the spatio-temporal dynamics of syntax processing between the production and perception modalities. Bissera studied in the UK, completing a BA in Linguistics […]

Lise Habib-Dassetto was awarded a 2022 ILCB PhD grant to conduct a project under the supervision of Marie Montant (LPC) and Cristel Portes (LPL), in collaboration with Alban Lemasson, director of EthoS (University of Rennes 1). Lise obtained Bachelor and Master degrees in Ethology at the university of Rennes 1 and developed a keen interest […]