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Age-related declines in performance are found in a wide variety of cognitive domains. These declines are accompanied by both strategic variations (i.e., differences between young and older adults in the type and frequencies of strategies, as well as in how strategies are executed and chosen among) a

Research in speech perception has shown that infants have early capacities to discriminate consonantal and vocalic contrasts and quickly become attuned to the properties of their native language. An asymmetry in sensitivity between consonants and vowels in word learning is first reported in French-l

The aim of the INNERSPEECH project is to improve our understanding of inner speech (IS) by addressing 4 questions. The first question – “WHAT” – relates to the nature of IS. Is IS closer to mental simulation of overt speech or to speech recall from memory traces (speech listening)? Which cerebral

Our cognitive system has a unique ability to express ideas by different means. To refer to the animal “CAT’ for instance, we can pronounce the word “cat”, we can draw a cat or even write the word “CAT” using letter of the alphabet. All these expressions of the same concept can be used interchangeabl

The project is dedicated to the study of two Modern Southarabian languages (MSAL) spoken in Oman: Omani Mehri and Jibbali. This topic is motivated as follows: i) these languages are endangered: spoken by minorities, no official status, under the pressure of Arabic, ii) they are understudied in the f

The aim of this project is twofold. First, it seeks to better understand how exposure to mass media images depicting the thin ideal affect women’s accessibility of negative thoughts (especially thoughts of suicide). Second, it proposes to examine whether a warning, specifying that a body image had b

Language and the overwhelming predominance of right-handedness in the population are among the characteristics that seem to distinguish humans as a species. The left hemisphere is specialized both for language processing and hand control in most right-handers, so that it is often taken for granted t

Interacting with the natural visual world generates complex sensory flows. For instance, the optical flow patterns generated by sky clouds or flocks of birds are made of visual information at multiple spatiotemporal scales about components speed or direction. Measuring with accuracy these speeds or