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
Is the Articulatory Trajectory of Changing Syllables Important for Achieving Higher Syllable Rates Compared to Repeated Syllables?
Are brain activity changes underlying rare word production after learning specific or do they extend to semantically related rare words?
Neural mechanisms underlying improved new-word learning with high-density transcranial direct current stimulation.
Asynchronous behavioral and neurophysiological changes in word production in the adult lifespan.
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Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Marina.Laganaro@unige.ch