Francois-Xavier.Alario # univ-provence.fr
Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive
CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université
Centre St Charles
3 place Victor Hugo (Bâtiment 9, Case D)
13331 Marseille CEDEX 3 - France
+33 4 88 57 69 00
 

I am a staff CNRS researcher in cognitive science at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive. I investigate the neural and cognitive mechanisms that allow speakers to produce language. Issues I am especially interested in include the processes by which speakers select the words needed to express ideas, and the processes by which the form of these words (phonology & orthography) is encoded.

This research is based on experiments conducted with healthy or brain dammaged individuals. We use classic methods of psychology (e.g. analysis of errors and response times) as well as brain imaging techniques (e.g. functional brain imaging and electro-encephalography).

Part of this work is funded by a grant from Agence Nationale de la Recherche (COGLEX: The cognitive basis of lexical selection)

work in progress  |  publications  |  cv

Current collaborators include

• Mauricio Mondragón (PhD), Post-doc
  Statistical properties of response time distributions


• Jasmin Sadat Schaffai, psychology PhD student
  Lexical processing in bilingual speakers (co-dir. Albert Costa)


• Pauline Ayora, psychology PhD student
  Recruitement of attentional ressources during language production


• Stéphanie Riès, neuroscience PhD student
  The neural basis of lexical selection (co-dir. Borís Burle)


• Rachel Ostrand, research assistant

By the way, are you looking for the
International Workshops on Language Production?