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 […]

Leonor Becerra is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences – HDR) in Computer Science at Aix-Marseille University since December 2020. She is a member of the Natural Language Processing team (TALEP) at the Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes (LIS). Leonor develops her research program at the intersection of linguistics and computer science. Her goal is to […]

ILCB is delighted to welcome Prof. Sophie Scott (CBE) on its International Advisory Board. Professor Sophie Scott CBE is Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She studies the neurobiology of human vocal communication, from speech and sound to social interactions and non verbal emotional expressions. She gave the Royal Institution […]

Philippe Blache is the founder director of ILCB. Before that, he was the founder director of ILCB’s “prequel”, the Labex Brain and Language Research Institute (BLRI). Philippe Blache is a CNRS research director since 1993. His interdisciplinary research concerns human-computer communication in natural language. He is particularly focused on modeling and developing artificial systems that […]

Professor Martin Pickering is Director of Research for the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh (UK). Prof. Pickering works in the areas of psychology of language and communication, including language production, language comprehension, dialogue, language and imagination, joint action, and bilingualism. Martin Pickering is visiting ILCB from March 1st […]