Tuned to the Rhythm: How Prenatally and Postnatally Heard Speech Prosody Lays the Foundations for Language Learning

Project Information

BabyRhythm

Grant agreement ID: 773202

DOI

10.3030/773202

Project closed

EC signature date 25 May 2018

Start date 1 June 2018

End date 31 May 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 621 250,00

EU contribution

€ 1 621 250,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (45)

The impact of generative linguistics on psychology: Language acquisition, a paradigm example

Author(s): Caterina Marino, Judit Gervain
Published in: Acta Linguistica Academica, Issue 66/3, 2019, Page(s) 371-396, ISSN 2559-8201
Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó
DOI: 10.1556/2062.2019.66.3.4

Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding

Author(s): Bálint Forgács, Judit Gervain, Eugenio Parise, Gergely Csibra, György Gergely, Júlia Baross, Ildikó Király
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 43, 2020, Page(s) 100783, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100783

Optimisation of Non-Pharmaceutical Measures in COVID-19 Growth via Neural Networks

Author(s): Annalisa Riccardi, Jessica Gemignani, Francisco Fernandez-Navarro, Anna Heffernan
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 79-91, ISSN 2471-285X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tetci.2020.3046012

Babies, bugs and brains: How the early microbiome associates with infant brain and behavior development

Author(s): Sebastian Hunter; Erica Flaten; Charisse Petersen; Judit Gervain; Janet F. Werker; Laurel J. Trainor; Brett B. Finlay
Published in: Plos One, 2023, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288689

Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language

Author(s): Charlotte Hym; Marie-Victorine Dumuids; David I. Anderson; Vincent Forma; Joëlle Provasi; Camille Brière-Dollat; Lionel Granjon; Judit Gervain; Thierry Nazzi; Marianne Barbu-Roth
Published in: Developmental Science, 2022, ISSN 1467-7687
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13248

An integration-to-bound model of decision-making that accounts for the spectral properties of neural data

Author(s): Ramón Guevara Erra, Marco Arbotto, Aaron Schurger
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44197-0

The origins and development of speech envelope tracking during the first months of life.

Author(s): Maria Clemencia Ortiz Barajas; Ramón Guevara; Judit Gervain
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100915

A Within-Subject Multimodal NIRS-EEG Classifier for Infant Data

Author(s): Jessica Gemignani, Judit Gervain
Published in: Sensors, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 4161, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s24134161

On the functional independence of numerical acuity and visual working memory

Author(s): Roberto Dell’Acqua, Paola Sessa, Sabrina Brigadoi, Judit Gervain, Roy Luria, Mattia Doro
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) 1335857, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1335857

A multilab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech

Author(s): Krista Byers-Heinlein; Angeline Sin Mei Tsui; Christina Bergmann; Alexis K. Black; Anna Brown; Maria Julia Carbajal; S. Durrant; Christopher T. Fennell; Anne-Caroline Fiévet; Michael C. Frank; Anja Gampe; Judit Gervain; Judit Gervain; Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez; J. Kiley Hamlin; Naomi Havron; Mikołaj Hernik; Shila Kerr; Hilary Killam; Kelsey Klassen; Jessica E. Kosie; Ágnes Melinda Kovács; Casey Le
Published in: Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci, 2021, ISSN 2515-2459
Publisher: APA
DOI: 10.1177/2515245920974622

Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study the early developing brain: future directions and new challenges

Author(s): Judit Gervain; Yasuyo Minagawa; Lauren Emberson; Sarah Lloyd-Fox
Published in: Neurophotonics, 2023, ISSN 2329-4248
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.10.2.023519

Developmental changes in the brain response to speech during the first year of life: A near-infrared spectroscopy study of dutch-learning infants

Author(s): Fen Zhang; Judit Gervain; Herbert Roeyers
Published in: Infant Behavior and Development, 2022, ISSN 1879-0453
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101724

Infants differentially extract rules from language.

Author(s): Iris Berent; Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Diane Brentari; Judit Gervain; Judit Gervain
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021), Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99539-8

Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Gorka Elordieta; Julián Villegas; Judit Gervain; Itziar Laka
Published in: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022, ISSN 1367-0050
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1713045

Brain responses to repetition-based rule-learning do not exhibit sex differences: an aggregated analysis of infant fNIRS studies

Author(s): Jessica Gemignani, Judit Gervain
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53092-2

Speech perception at birth: The brain encodes fast and slow temporal information

Author(s): Laurianne Cabrera, Judit Gervain
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/30, 2020, Page(s) eaba7830, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba7830

Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: a look from the perspective of the same/different distinction

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Judit Gervain; Judit Gervain
Published in: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2352-1546
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.014

Learning word order: early beginnings

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Caterina Marino; Judit Gervain; Judit Gervain
Published in: TICS, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.04.011

The recognition of human voice in deaf and hearing infants

Author(s): Arnaud Coëz; Natalie Loundon; Isabelle Rouillon; Marine Parodi; Marion Blanchard; Sophie Achard; Eréa-Noël Garabédian; Eric Bizaguet; Tabassome Simon; Natacha Tessier; Françoise Denoyelle; Judit Gervain
Published in: Hearing, Balance and Communication, 2022, ISSN 2169-5717
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
DOI: 10.1080/21695717.2022.2084866

Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian‐speaking children with and without developmental language disorder?

Author(s): Enikő Ladányi, Ágnes Lukács, Judit Gervain
Published in: Developmental Science, Issue 24, 2023, Page(s) e13112, ISSN 1363-755X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13112

Neural oscillations and speech processing at birth

Author(s): Maria Clemencia Ortiz-Barajas, Ramón Guevara, Judit Gervain
Published in: iScience, Issue 26, 2024, Page(s) 108187, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Cell Press Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108187

Maternal intrusiveness predicts infants’ event‐related potential responses to angry and happy prosody independent of infant frontal asymmetry

Author(s): Rens Huffmeijer, Marian J. Bakermans‐Kranenburg, Judit Gervain
Published in: Infancy, Issue 25/3, 2020, Page(s) 246-263, ISSN 1525-0008
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12327

Six-month-old infants' perception of structural regularities in speech

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Judit Gervain
Published in: Cognition, 2023, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105526

Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data.

Author(s): Jessica Gemignani; Judit Gervain
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100943

Coverbal speech gestures signal phrase boundaries: A production study of Japanese and English infant- and adult-directed speech

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Judit Gervain, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Janet F. Werker
Published in: Language Acquisition, 2019, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 1048-9223
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1659276

The Novelty Effect as a Predictor of Language Outcome

Author(s): Caterina Marino, Judit Gervain
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 10, 2019, Page(s) 258, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00258

Behavioral and Imaging Studies of Infant Artificial Grammar Learning

Author(s): Judit Gervain, Irene la Cruz‐Pavía, LouAnn Gerken
Published in: Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018, ISSN 1756-8757
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12400

Finding Phrases: The Interplay of Word Frequency, Phrasal Prosody and Co-speech Visual Information in Chunking Speech by Monolingual and Bilingual Adults

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Janet F. Werker, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Judit Gervain
Published in: Language and Speech, 2019, Page(s) 002383091984235, ISSN 0023-8309
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0023830919842353

Efficient Neural Coding in Auditory and Speech Perception

Author(s): Judit Gervain, Maria N. Geffen
Published in: Trends in Neurosciences, Issue 42/1, 2019, Page(s) 56-65, ISSN 0166-2236
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2018.09.004

Seven-month-old infants detect symmetrical structures in multi-featured abstract visual patterns

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Gesche Westphal-Fitch; W. Tecumseh Fitch; Judit Gervain
Published in: PLoS One, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266938

The neonate brain's sensitivity to repetition-based structure: Specific to speech?

Author(s): Caroline Nallet; Iris Berent; Janet F. Werker; Judit Gervain
Published in: Developmental Science, 2023, ISSN 1467-7687
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13408

Reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach

Author(s): Jessica Gemignani; Irene de la Cruz-Pavía; Anna Martinez; Caroline Nallet; Alessia Pasquini; Gaia Lucarini; Francesca Cavicchiolo; Judit Gervain
Published in: Neurophotonics, 2023, ISSN 2329-4248
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.10.2.023518

Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain

Author(s): Benedetta Mariani, Giorgio Nicoletti, Giacomo Barzon, Maria Clemencia Ortiz Barajas, Mohinish Shukla, Ramón Guevara, Samir Simon Suweis, Judit Gervain
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) eadj3524, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj3524

Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy

Author(s): Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Judit Gervain, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Janet F. Werker
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/11, 2019, Page(s) e0224786, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224786

Word Frequency Is a Cue to Lexical Category for 8-Month-Old Infants

Author(s): Caterina Marino, Carline Bernard, Judit Gervain
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/8, 2020, Page(s) 1380-1386.e3, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.070

Semantic systems are mentalistically activated for and by social partners

Author(s): Bálint Forgács; Judit Gervain; Eugenio Parise; György Gergely; Lívia Priyanka Elek; Zsuzsanna Üllei-Kovács; Ildikó Király
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08306-w

Speakers aren't blank slates (with respect to sign-language phonology)!

Author(s): Iris Berent; Judit Gervain
Published in: Cognition, 2023, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105347

Consciousness as an Emergent Phenomenon: A Tale of Different Levels of Description.

Author(s): Ramón Guevara; Ramón Guevara; Diego M. Mateos; Jose Luis Perez Velazquez
Published in: Entropy, Vol 22, Iss 921, p 921 (2020), 2020, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e22090921

Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report

Author(s): Hasan Ayaz; Wesley B Baker; Giles Blaney; David A Boas; Heather Bortfeld; Kenneth Brady; Joshua Brake; Sabrina Brigadoi; Erin M Buckley; Stefan A Carp; Robert J Cooper; Kyle R Cowdrick; Joseph P Culver; Ippeita Dan; Hamid Dehghani; Anna Devor; Turgut Durduran; Adam T Eggebrecht; Lauren L Emberson; Qianqian Fang; Sergio Fantini; Maria Angela Franceschini; Jonas B Fischer; Judit Gervain; Joy Hirsch;
Published in: Neurophotonics, 2022, ISSN 2329-4248
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.9.s2.s24001

Newborns discriminate utterance‐level prosodic contours

Author(s): Anna Martinez‐Alvarez; Silvia Benavides‐Varela; Alexandre Lapillonne; Judit Gervain
Published in: Developmental Science, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1363-755X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/desc.13304

The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language

Author(s): Bálint Forgács; Tibor Tauzin; György Gergely; Judit Gervain
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2022), Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-05122-0

Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent regularities

Author(s): Anna Martinez-Alvarez; Judit Gervain; Elena Koulaguina; Ferran Pons; Ruth De Diego-Balaguer
Published in: Science Advances, 2023, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade40

Atypical neural oscillations in response to speech in infants and children with speech and language impairments: a systematic review

Author(s): Caroline Nallet; Judit Gervain
Published in: Hearing, Balance and Communication, 2022, ISSN 2169-5717
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
DOI: 10.1080/21695717.2022.2084864

How 15‐month‐old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?

Author(s): Enikő Ladányi, Ágnes M. Kovács, Judit Gervain
Published in: Infancy, Issue 25/2, 2020, Page(s) 190-204, ISSN 1525-0008
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12324

8-month-old infants' ability to process word order is shaped by the amount of exposure

Author(s): Marino, Caterina; Gervain, Judit
Published in: Cognition, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104717

Conference proceedings (2)

Classification of fNIRS data with LDA and SVM: a proof-of-concept for application in infant studies

Author(s): Gemignani, J.
Published in: IEEE, Issue 1, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7281-1179-7
Publisher: IEEE EMBC
DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9629951

A practical guide for synthetic fNIRS data generation

Author(s): Jessica Gemignani; Judit Gervain
Published in: IEEE EMBC, Issue 1, 2021, ISBN 978-1-7281-1179-7
Publisher: IEEE EMBC
DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9631014