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Research Unit in Cognitive Neurosciences (UNESCOG)

Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences | Research center in cognition and neurosciences

Interfaculty institutes | UNI, ULB Neuroscience Institute

(Code: ULB585)

► Psycholinguistic units involved in speech recognition

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Autres ministères fédéraux - Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

Investigation of the prelexical units involved in the recognition of speech in French, which is compared to other languages. The paradigms used are the ...

► Influence of orthographic knowledge on speech representations.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française - Autres U.E. - Financement de base institutionnel.

L'influence de connaissances dépendant de la litératie s'observe à différents niveaux représentationnels. Au niveau métaphonologique, notre group ...

► Consequences of schooling and literacy on language and cognition

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Financement de base institutionnel.

The cognitive consequences of illiteracy are studied by comparing adults who were not alphabetized for socioeconomic reasons to controls who were alpha ...

► Audiovisual interaction in the analysis of the spatial scene and in speech.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Financement de base institutionnel.

Behavioral and electrophysiological studies are carried out to specify the constraints and the neural basis of the audiovisual interactions involved bo ...

► Speech perception in congenitally profound deaf children

Autres fonds publics belges - Autres ressources extérieures.

Behavioral and electrophysiological investigation of the processes and neural substrates underlying audiovisual speech perception in congenitally profo ...

► Investigation of phonological discrimination evolution in 4 and 8 months old babies by heart rate recordings

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

Before six months, chidren are able to discriminate all phonemes of all languages. However, from six months, children select only the sounds that are p ...

► Developmental dyslexia : nature of the deficits and evolution.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Financement de base institutionnel.

The goal is the determine whether the phonological and surface profiles of dyslexia stem from a common deficit (of phonological nature) or from multipl ...

► Auditory and visual attention.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.).

Studies on auditory and visual attention are carried out by using brain imagery (PET-Scan) and behavioral examination of both healthy subjects and brai ...

► Neuropsychological studies of auditory agnosia

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.).

Brain-damaged patients who display deficits of auditory stimuli recognition are examined. We study, in particular, the deficits of music processing and ...

► Divided attention reeducation

Financement de base institutionnel.

Divided attention reeducation

► Generalization effects in the tip of the tongue therapy

Financement de base institutionnel.

Objects oral denomination deficits are frequent in aphasic patients and may constitute the only cognitive deficit after a cerebral lesion. Numerous stu ...

► Relations between music and language in perception and memory for songs

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Autres ressources extérieures.

These studies, conducted on non-musician participants, are aimed at testing the boundaries of separability between language and music. More specificall ...

► Relations between the mental representations of numbers and the mental representation of musical tones

Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

We explore the parallels between the mental representations of music and numbers through spatial associations of response codes effects (e.g. the 'SNAR ...

► Functional relations between language and music processing

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

Many real-word events do not occur randomly: they can be anticipated or predicted on the basis of the statistical regularities between successive event ...

► Electrophysiological study of the mechanisms underlying the auditory discrimination of duration contrasts

Financement de base institutionnel.

This research is designed to examine the accuracy with which a change in the moment of detection of a duration deviance is reflected in the Mismatch Ne ...