Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler
Social and behavioural sciences, Simulation of innovation processes in complex social systems
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences
Cognitive developmental neuroscience
Language acquisition, Early speech perception, Newborns, Infants, NIRS, EEG, Behavioural methods
Academia Europaea Member, 2018
CNRS Bronze Medal, 2018
NIAS-Lorentz Fellow, NIAS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2017
Mercator Fellow, German Research Foundation (DFG), 2014 – 2018
Huygens Scholarship, 2002
Erasmus Scholarship, 2000 – 2001
English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish
de la Cruz Pavia, I., Marino, C., Gervain, J. 2021. “Learning Word Order: Early Beginnings”. Trends in Cognitive Science.
Gemignani, J., Gervain, J. 2021. “Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
Ortiz Barajas, M. C., Guevara, R., Gervain, J. 2021. “The origins and development of speech envelope tracking during the first months of life”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48: 100915.
de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Gervain, J. 2021. “Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: A look from the perspective of the same/different distinction”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 37: 125-132.
Cabrera, L., Gervain, J. 2020. “Speech perception at birth: the brain encodes fast and slow temporal information”. Science Advances. 6: 30, eaba7830.
Marino, C., Bernard, C., Gervain, J. 2020. “Word frequency is a cue to lexical category for 8-month-old infants”. Current Biology. 30, 1380–1386.
ManyBabies Consortium. 2020. “Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference.” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 3(1), 24–52.
Gervain, J., Geffen, M. N. 2019. “Efficient Neural Coding in Auditory and Speech Perception”. Trends in Neurosciences, 42:1, 56-65.
Gervain, J. 2018. “The role of prenatal experience in language development”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 21: 62-67.
May, L., Gervain, J., Carreiras, M., Werker, J.F. 2018. “The specificity of the neural response to speech at birth”. Developmental Science. 21(3): e12564.
ECOS-Sud French-Chilean Mobility Grant (12 000€; co-PI), 2021 – 2023
Japanese National Science Foundation Grant (PI: Reiko Mazuka), 2020 – 2025
ERC Consolidator Grant “BabyRhythm” (1.64M €; PI), 2018 – 2023
ANF-DFG French-German grant (PI: Olivier Pascalis & Gudrun Schwarzer), 2017 – 2020
ANR “Croissant” grant (PI: Nicolas Quint), 2017 – 2020
ANR “Speech Code” grant (230 000€; PI), 2015 – 2018
Marie Curie ITN (3.8M €; coordinator: Barbara Höhle), 2014 – 2018
HFSP Young Investigator Grant (750 000 USD; co-PI), 2014 – 2018
Programme “Emergence(s)”, City of Paris (220 000€; PI), 2012 – 2015
ANR “Jeunes Chercheurs” grant (120 224€; PI), 2011 – 2014
ANR-DFG French-German grant “CrossMod” (PI: Olivier Pascalis & Gudrun Schwarzer), 2011 – 2014
Fyssen Foundation Startup grant (35 750€; PI), 2011
Member, Board of Directors, International Society for functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, since 2016
Member of the ethics committee CERES, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, 2012 – 2020
Deputy director, Institute of Neuroscience & Cognition, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France, 2014 – 2020
Comité National du CNRS (central science board of the CNRS), 2012 – 2016
Section editor, Cognition, since 2021
Special issue guest editor, TopiCS, 2020
Special issue guest editor, Cognition, 2020
Associate editor, Neurophotonics, since 2016
Associate editor, Developmental Science, since 2014
Associate editor, Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences), since 2010
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Social and behavioural sciences, Simulation of innovation processes in complex social systems
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