Marina Laganaro
Function: Professeure ordinaire
Group name: NeuroPsychoLinguistics
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Psychology Section
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
Referential and inferential production across the lifespan: different patterns and different predictive cognitive factors.
Time-course of phonetic (motor speech) encoding in utterance production.
What Do Differences between Alternating and Sequential Diadochokinetic Tasks Tell Us about the Development of Oromotor Skills? An Insight from Childhood to Adulthood.
The temporal dynamics of the Stroop effect from childhood to young and older adulthood.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Marina.Laganaro@unige.ch