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Research description
My research focuses on the psychological mechanisms involved in aspects of language acquisition and use. I am particularly interested in basic perceptual mechanisms as the basis of diverse computations in both in artificial and natural grammar learning, and the role of perceptual cues for word learning. I normally employ behavioral experiments with humans, and computational modeling when I am bored. Now I will add research with non-human primates to investigate the same mechanisms in a non-human species. Ideally, this research will reveal some computational tools used by the language faculty, and indicate which of these are specific to humans and language.


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Biographical sketch
I'm currently a postdoc in the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory and the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. Before, I was a postdoc in the Language, Cognition and Development Laboratory at SISSA in Trieste, Italy. I received my Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique. Before, I graduated as a generalist engineer from the Ecole polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, and received an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Essen, Germany.



Last update: Dec 2008