Clément François, CNRS researcher at the LPL, has just been awarded one of the 2024 Scientific Prizes by the 5 senses for kids Foundation - in partnership with the French Neuroscience Society - for his project ‘Impact of late-to-moderate preterm birth on minimal pair Word learning’, which measures a new word-object associative learning at an early age to assess the impact of prematurity on an essential function of language learning.

As a reminder, last September, CNRS SHS highlighted the article published from this project conducted in collaboration with Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Xim Cerda-Company, Thaïs Agut and Laura Bosch:

François C., Rodriguez-Fornells A., Cerda-Company X., Agut T., Bosch L. 2024, Impact of late to moderate preterm birth on minimal pair word-learning, Child Development.

Find out more :
- Awards ceremony: https://5senses4kids.org/en/3rd-awards-ceremony-for-5-senses-for-kids-foundation/
- Full-text scientific article: https://hal.science/hal-04671814
- CNRS SHS press release (French): https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/difficultes-dapprentissage-de-nouveaux-mots-chez-les-prematures-moderes-de-18-mois
- Article on the LPL website: https://www.lpl-aix.fr/en/actualite/difficulties-in-learning-new-words-in-moderate-preterm-infants-aged-18-months/

Credits: 5 senses for kids Foundation