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
Attention in post-lexical processes of utterance production: Dual-task cost in younger and older adults.
Does learning to read affect naming skills? Insights from ERPs during letter and picture naming tasks.
Sensitivity and specificity of an acoustic- and perceptual-based tool for assessing motor speech disorders in French: the MonPaGe-screening protocol.
Age-Specific Effects of Lexical-Semantic Networks on Word Production.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Marina.Laganaro@unige.ch