Prosodic and Social Dimensions of Entrainment in Dialogue by  (Columbia University) When people speak together, they often adapt aspects of their speaking style based upon the style of their conversational partner. This phenomena goes by many names, including adaptation, alignment, and entrainment, inter alia. In this talk, I will describe experiments in English and Mandarin […]

Neuroanatomical correlates of developmental dyslexia by Irène Altarelli (Brain and Learning Lab., University of Geneva) Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that impacts reading abilities, despite normal education, intelligence and perception. The aim of the present work is to determine its neuroanatomical correlates, with the broader goal of identifying associations between genetic variants, brain […]