Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Gervain, Judit"

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      Language dominance shapes non-linguistic rhythmic grouping in bilinguals 

      Molnar, Monika; Carreiras, Manuel; Gervain, Judit (Cognition, 2016)
      To what degree non-linguistic auditory rhythm perception is governed by universal biases (e.g., Iambic- Trochaic Law; Hayes, 1995) or shaped by native language experience is debated. It has been proposed that rhythmic ...
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      The specificity of the neural response to speech at birth 

      May, Lillian; Gervain, Judit; Carreiras, Manuel; Werker, Janet F. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-7687, 2018)
      In this work we ask whether at birth, the human brain responds uniquely to speech, or if similar activation also occurs to a non-speech surrogate ‘language’. We compare neural activation in newborn infants to the language ...