Marina Laganaro
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Psychology Section
Group name: NeuroPsychoLinguistics
Domains: Language and Communication
Keywords: aphasia, brain damages, language, phonetic encoding
Research activities
We investigate the mechanisms involved in language production in normal conditions and after brain damage through the integration of psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic and functional neuroimaging paradigms. We use psycholinguistic chronometric paradigms to study which representations and processes are involved in the encoding of the form of the sentence to be produced. In the neurolinguistic approach we carry out the same studies with brain damaged speakers presenting with impaired language production (especially impaired phonological/phonetic encoding) and perform error analyses and acoustic measures on these productions. In the neuroimaging approach we analyse the time-course of processes involved in word-form encoding with ERPs paradigms in healthy control subjects and their breakdown in brain damaged (aphasic) speakers.
Latest publications
Word Production Changes through Adolescence: A Behavioral and ERP Investigation of Referential and Inferential Naming.
Perceptual Classification of Motor Speech Disorders: The Role of Severity, Speech Task, and Listener's Expertise.
Contribution of acoustic analysis to the detection of vocoid epenthesis in apraxia of speech and other motor speech disorders.
Longitudinal study of speech and dual-task performance in Parkinson's disease patients treated with subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Marina.Laganaro@unige.ch