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Conversing with a virtual human to assess the consequences of head injuries

The CNRS press office has just published a press release on the latest article co-written by Maud Champagne-Lavau (CNRS research director), Noémie Moreau (neuropsychologist and researcher associated with the LPL) and Emmanuelle Taché (neuropsychologist and former doctoral student of the laboratory) and which recently appeared in the Journal of Neurospychology:

Article: Speaking with virtual humans: Assessing social cognition in traumatic brain injury with a 2nd person-perspective task. Moreau Noémie, Taché Emmanuelle and Champagne-Lavau Maud. Journal of Neurospychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12257

Press release in EN: Conversing with a virtual human to assess the consequences of head injuries | CNRS

Image © Maud Champagne-Lavau / Emmanuelle Taché / Noémie Moreau

Special issue dedicated to the RANACLES 2019 Congress

The journal “Mélanges du CRAPEL” has just published a thematic issue on Interactions in language (resource) centers following the 27th RANACLES Congress organized by the LPL and LERMA in 2019.

The issue was coordinated by Amélie Leconte and Marco Cappellini from LPL and by Anne Chateau and Maud Ciekanski from ATILF.

Link to the special issue (full text in French) : Mélanges Crapel - ATILF | CNRS-UL -> go to « Derniers numéros parus » (last issues)

Visuo-attentional and reading skills: the look says it all

In its July issue of the AMU Letter, Aix-Marseille University devoted a brief to the last article by Stéphanie Bellocchi (Epsylon Montpellier) and Stéphanie Ducrot (LPL) published in the journal Dyslexia:

Bellocchi, S., & Ducrot, S. (2021). “Same, same but different”: The optimal viewing position effect in developmental dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder and comorbid disorders. Dyslexia,1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1688

Link: La Lettre AMU N°91 JUILLET 2021 (adobe.com) (p. 37)

Contact: stephanie.ducrot@univ-amu.fr

Rethinking forms of presence in the age of videoconferences

Christelle Combe (LPL / AMU) contributed to the book Build interaction among screens. Forms of Presence in Research and Training which has just been published in the Ateliers de sens public.

The book is available in open access in an augmented HTML version, in PDF, as well as in other formats. The project, led by Christine Develotte, includes contributions from Amélie Bouquain, Tatiana Codreanu, Christelle Combe, Morgane Domanchin, Mabrouka El Hachani, Dorothée Furnon, Jean-François Grassin, Justine Lascar, Samira Ibnelkaïd, Joséphine Rémon and Caroline Vincent.

Link to the augmented HTML version:  https://ateliers.sens-public.org/fabrique-de-l-interaction-parmi-les-ecrans/index.html

How to optimize the assessment of the intelligibility of people with speech disorders?

Anna Marczyk (LPL) is the first author of the article "Optimizing linguistic materials for feature-based intelligibility assessment in speech impairments" which has just appeared in the journal Behavior Research Methods. Produced among others in collaboration with Alain Ghio, Muriel Lalain and Marie Rebourg from the laboratory, it is based on the research work carried out within the framework of the RUGBI project.

Reference:
Marczyk, A., Ghio, A., Lalain, M. et al. Optimizing linguistic materials for feature-based intelligibility assessment in speech impairments. Behav Res (2021). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01610-9

 Open access to the article: https://rdcu.be/cl65E

Do you want /ʃoloka/ on a /bistɔk/?

Sophie Dufour, CNRS research director at LPL, has just published two articles with Jonathan Grainger (LPC) and Jonathan Mirault (LPC) on the perception of non-words. The first study seeks to understand whether non-words created by the transposition of two phonemes (/ʃoloka/) are perceived as being more similar compared to their base words (/ʃokola/) [chocolate] than non-words created by substituting two phonemes (/ʃoropa/). Then, in the second article, the authors continue their research by positioning the phonemes differently within the non-word.

  • Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Grainger. When you hear /baksɛt/ do you think /baskɛt/? Evidence for transposed-phoneme effect with multisyllabic words.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, American Psychological Association, In press, ⟨1037/xlm0000978⟩. ⟨hal-03141336⟩
  • Sophie Dufour, Jonathan Mirault, Jonathan Grainger. Do you want /ʃoloka/ on a /bistɔk/? On the scope of transposed-phoneme effects with non-adjacent phonemes. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Psychonomic Society, 2021, ⟨3758/s13423-021-01926-9⟩. ⟨hal-03225295⟩

These gestures that matter for language learning

"The Conversation" publishes a new article by Marion Tellier (LPL / AMU) which discusses here the positive effects of gestures and body techniques in the learning of foreign languages!

Link to article (in French): Ces gestes qui comptent pour l’apprentissage des langues (theconversation.com)

Link to her last article about the role of the body in distance learning (April 2021, in French): Le corps a-t-il encore sa place dans l’enseignement à distance ? (theconversation.com)

 

Credits: Andrea Piacquadio /Pexels, CC BY

Oral corpora: New methodological and regulatory considerations

The CORPUS journal published in its last thematic issue "From collection to tooling of oral corpora: how to access variation?” Two articles (co-) written by several members of the LPL:

The 1st article was born from a federating initiative of several national actors around the corpus of pathological speech in a clinical phonetics framework. Seven centers are represented: Aix, Marseille, Toulouse, Montpellier, Paris, Strasbourg, Avignon. The objective is to lay the foundations for the constitution of databases relating to voice and speech disorders to facilitate research on these topics. The collection of this type of corpus must be important to take into account the significant variations in symptoms in patients:

Alain Ghio, Gilles Pouchoulin, François Viallet, Antoine Giovanni, Virginie Woisard, Lise Crevier-Buchman, Fabrice Hirsch, Camille Fauth et Corinne Fredouille, « Du recueil à l’exploitation des corpus de parole « pathologique » : comment accéder à la variation physiopathologique ? », Corpus [En ligne], 22 | 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/corpus/5677

The 2nd article is the result of work carried out by the laboratory's Ethics Commission concerning the new regulations for corpora (RGPD and the Jardé Law):

Muriel Lalain, Gilles Pouchoulin, Béatrice Priego-Valverde et Serge Pinto, « De la protection des données à la protection de la personne : Réflexions sur l’impact des nouvelles réglementations sur la collecte des corpus », Corpus [En ligne], 22 | 2021. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/corpus/5895


Link to the issue 22 (2021) of the CORPUS journal


Credits: ANR Speed-Vel / LPL

Referential communication in dogs through the prism of acoustic analysis

The 50th Colloquium of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behavior (SFECA) will take place on May 31 and June 1 in Marseille (online). It is organized by local research laboratories, including the LPL.

On this occasion, Thierry Legou, CNRS research engineer at the LPL, will present an oral communication within the framework of the “Social Cognition” section entitled “Do dog vocalize differently towards their owner and food in an unsolvable task? An exploratory study ”.

Summary of the intervention:
The dog is an interesting study model in terms of comparative cognition with humans and referential or interspecies communication - especially dog-human communication - since he has lived with us for over 30,000 years. Our study consists of evaluating the dog's referential communication in the presence of a human (their master) and a target (food). The types of vocalizations of the dog during the experiment as well as their acoustic characteristics were analyzed to determine if these vocalizations are different when they are produced to the master or to the target.

Registration deadline for the conference: May 10, 2021

The role of cognitive neuroscience in speech production and bilingualism

In its May 2021 volume, the Journal of Neurolinguistics publishes a special issue on speech production and bilingualism, edited by Kristof Strijkers (LPL) and Arturo Hernandez (University of Houston). It is dedicated to the memory of Albert Costa, renowned specialist in cognitive science and bilingualism and co-editor of the same issue before suddenly passing away at the age of 48 in December 2018.

 Link to the full text version of the special issue via AMU ressources (connection to ENT requested):
Special Issue on Language Production and bilingualism. In memoriam of Albert Costa. - ScienceDirect (univ-amu.fr)

Reference:
Kristof Strijkers, Arturo Hernandez, Albert Costa. Special Issue on Language Production and bilingualism. In memoriam of Albert Costa.. Journal of Neurolinguistics, Elsevier, 2021, 58, pp.100966. ⟨10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100966⟩. ⟨hal-03084927⟩