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 […]

You all know Marien Gouyon from his relentless organizational efforts across the ILCB. We warmly thank Marien for that! But did you know that Marien has an international scientific trajectory? Marien has a PhD in social anthropology with a thesis entitled “Ana loubia. Ethnographie des homosexualités masculines à Casablanca” (2018, Editions du Croquant). He was […]

  Marie Montant is a senior member of the ILCB and a member of its evaluation committee. She holds a Maîtresse de Conférence position in Neurosciences at AMU and is affiliated to the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (Marseille). In September 2021, she was awarded a research fellow position at the Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées […]

Ana ZAPPA received the 2020 Best Thesis Award from the Language, Cognition, and Education doctoral school (ED 356).  Her thesis, entitled “Embodied semantics put to the test: electrophysiological evidence from virtual reality and classical environments“, was conducted under the supervision of Cheryl FRENCK-MESTRE (LPL) and in collaboration with the CRVM. Ana examined language processing and […]

Víctor López-Madrona was awarded a 2021 ILCB post doc fellow grant to conduct a project at the INS to study the electrophysiological dynamics of the auditory cortex during speech perception. As a former engineer, Víctor is specialized on signal analysis and brain connectivity. He did his PhD at the Neuroscience Institute in Alicante, Spain, where […]

Dr. Isabelle Darcy is Professor of Second Language Studies at Indiana University Bloomington (USA) and currently a research fellow at the IMéRA/ILCB until July 2022. Her research explores how adult language learners acquire the sounds and the words of a new language. She uses psycholinguistic methods to understand how these learners “learn to listen” and […]

Franziska Geringswald is joining the CREx engineer team. Franziska obtained a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. She then worked with Marie-Hélène Grosbras (LNC) for several years. Franziska has a background in experimental psychology, with a specialization in visual attention and memory functions, in healthy and impaired vision. Franziska is delighted […]