REaDY: Representations and Dynamics

The study of these subjects will be based mainly on experimental approaches involving

(i) behavioral and psychophysical methods: articulatory and acoustic investigations, eye movements, reaction times, language errors, etc.,
(ii) neuroscientific techniques: EEG, MEG, fMRI, TMS, deep brain stimulation and
(iii) neuropsychological tests.

Various populations will be selectively targeted according to the different studies, such as children, young adults and the elderly, mono- and bilingual, as well as people with different speech and language disorders, such as dyslexia, dystonia , apraxia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's type dementia, congenital blindness, deafness with or without a cochlear implant. Through this pluralist and multidisciplinary approach, both in theoretical and methodological terms, our team aims to deepen our knowledge of the production and perception of spoken and written language, in order to have a global vision of how the different aspects of language skills develop, integrate and interact in different contexts of speech and language processing.

The strengths of the ReaDy team lie mainly in the scientific interdisciplinarity and complementarity of its members: linguistics, psychology, biology, neurosciences, physics, etc. They allow the same research question to be approached from different angles, which can articulate between them. The complementarity of the instrumental expertise and experimental methodologies represented in this team is also a strong asset for dealing with the same question at different levels of the processes involved: acoustic, visual, physiological, neurological, psychological and cognitive.