Ladislas Nalborczyk, a former ILCB postdoc, has been freshly appointed CNRS permanent researcher at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL). Ladislas’s research combines experimental (e.g., psychophysics, EMG, M/EEG, TMS) and computational (e.g., mathematical modelling, machine learning) methods to better understand the conscious experience, the cognitive mechanisms, and the neural underpinnings of inner speech, mental/motor imagery, and synesthesia.
Ladislas completed a joint PhD in cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology at Grenoble-Alpes University and Ghent University (Belgium) in 2019, on the topic of inner speech –the mental production of speech– and rumination, under the supervision of Hélène Loevenbruck, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, and Ernst Koster. He then worked for 1 year as a postdoc in the team of Thomas Hueber and Laurent Girin at GIPSA-lab (Grenoble) on improving deep learning methods to decode overt and covert speech from intracranial (ECoG) data. In 2021, he obtained a 2-year ILCB postdoc grant to investigate the inhibitory mechanisms underlying inner speech and typing imagery, under the supervision of Xavier Alario and Marieke Longcamp, now at the CRPN. Before joining the LPL, he worked for 1.5 years at UNICOG/NeuroSpin (CEA) and the Paris Brain Institute (AP-HP, INSERM) under the supervision of Stanislas Dehaene and Laurent Cohen on the neural dynamics underlying silent reading and tickertape synesthesia.
To learn more, you can visit https://lnalborczyk.github.io.