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Address :              Laboratoire Cognition Langage Développement (LCLD)
                                & Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives (
UNESCOG)
                                Université Libre de Bruxelles - CP 191
                                Avenue F.D. Roosevelt
                                1050 Bruxelles
                                BELGIUM

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Vita

February 2013 - Now: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Royal Military Academy (RMA), Research Unit VIPER under the supervision of Pr. Nathalie Pattyn

October 2012 - Janvier 2013
: Research and Clinical assistant in Neurophysiology at CHU-UVC Brugmann under the supervision of Pr. Paul Deltenre

2008 - 2012
: PhD in Psycholgical Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (
ULB).

Thesis Title : Auditory training effects on Categorical Perception of Voice Onset Time : Data from Adults, Children and Language Learning Impairment
Directors : Pr. 
Cécile Colin (Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives - ULB) and Pr. Jacqueline Leybaert (Laboratoire Cognition Langage Développement - ULB)

Funded by the National Fund of Scientific Research (F.R.S - FNRS) - Belgium
 

2007 - 2008: Assistant in Statistics and data analysis at the Service d'Analyse des Données (SAD), Université Libre de Bruxelles.

2002 - 2007: Master in Psychological Sciences, Learning and Retardation, Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

 
Research interests

- Speech - Speech perception - Hearing - Auditory processes - Learning mechanism in speech
- Auditory and Motor Interaction
- Auditory Training
- Cortical and Sub-cortical Auditory Plasticity
- Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
- Categorical Perception - Voice Onset Time (VOT)
- Electrophysiology (Event-related potentials - ERPs and Mismatch Negativity - MMN) and brain imaging (fMRI, MEG)
- Neural Network Models - Auditory Modeling

 
Publications

Scientific Publication Activities

Collet, G., Colin, C., Markessis, E., Hoonhorst, I., Deltenre, P., Serniclaes, W., & Leybaert, J. (in press) Do French speakers change their voicing phonological boundary after identification training? (Applied Psycholinguistics)

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Serniclaes, W., Markessis, E., Hoonhorst, I., Deltenre, P., & Colin, C. (in revision) Les entraînements auditifs : entre modifications comportementales et neurophysiologiques [Auditory training: from behavioral to neurophysiologic data] (L’Année Psychologique)

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Serniclaes, W. & Colin, C. (2012). Apprentissage de contrastes non-natifs: Limites des entraînements statistiques [Learning non-native contrasts: Limits of the statistical training]. In L., Besacier, B., Lecouteux, & G., Sérasset (Eds.), Proceedings/Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, vol.1 (pp. 489–496). ATALA & AFCP.

Colin, C., Deltenre, P., Collet, G., Markessis, E., Hoonhorst, I. (2011). Troubles auditifs centraux et troubles d’apprentissage du langage : perspectives de remediation baseés sur les données électrophysiologiques [Central auditory disorders and language learning disorders : prospects for remediation based on electrophysiological data]. Les cahiers de l’Audition, 24(3), 22-27.


Markessis, E., Hoonhorst, I., Colin, C., Collet, G., Pablos Martin, X., & Deltenre, P. (2007) Apport de l’électrophysiologie en pédo-audiologie [Contribution of electrophysiology in child audiology]. Les cahiers de l’audition, 20(5), 38-53.



For extended list : see also on pubmed



Presentation at National and International Conference

Oral presentations

Colin, C., Hoonhorst, I., Markessis, E., Collet, G., Pablos Martin, X. & Deltenre, P. (2011). Evidence for a dual vs single origin of the Mismatch Negativity (MMN). 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), San Sebastian, Spain. September 29- October 2, 2011.

Collet, G., Kerveillant, L., Leybaert, J., Serniclaes, W., & Colin, C. (2011). Effet d’un entraînement auditif sur la perception catégorielle du voisement chez des enfants dysphasiques : données preliminaries [Auditory training effect on voicing categorical perception in Specific Language Impairment children : preliminary data]. 4ème Journées de Phonétique Clinique, Strasbourg, France. May 19-21, 2011.

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Hoonhorst, I., Serniclaes, W., Markessis, E., Deltenre, P. & Colin, C. (2009). Change of the VOT boundary after training : Effect of the internal structure of the category? Annual meeting of the
Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, June 3, 2009.

Collet, G., Colin, C., Hoonhorst, I., Serniclaes, W., Markessis, E., Deltenre, P. & Leybaert, J. (2009). How the internal structure of a category is involved in the shift of the voicing phonological boundary after training? Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium, May 18 & 19, 2009.

Collet, G., Leybaert, J. & Colin, C. (2008). Perception catégorielle et entraînements auditifs perspectives comportementales, électrophysiologiques et de cartographie cérébrale. Première Journée des Doctorants, Bruxelles, Belgium. October 15 & 16, 2008

Collet, G.
, Colin, C., Hoonhorst, I., Deltenre, P., Serniclaes, W. & Leybaert, J. (2008). Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of identification training : a pilot study on categorical perception of voicing. Annual meeting of the
Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Leuven, Belgium. May 26, 2008.

Collet, G. (2008). Entraînement et perception catégorielle : analyse de la plasticité cérébrale par les potentiels évoqués corticaux de langue latence [Training and categorical perception : cortical plasticity analyzed with long latency ERPs]. Workshop Colonster, Liège, Belgium. April 11 & 12, 2008.

Colin, C., Hoonhorst, I., Markessis, E., Collet, G. and Deltenre, P. (2008). A quest for the optimal subtraction method for MMN recording. A first study using duration contrasts. Neuromeeting Bourgogne 2008, Beaune, France. January 16 to 19, 2008.

 

Poster presentations

Van Rinsveld, A., Hoonhorst, I., Collet, G., Serniclaes, W., Colin, C. (2012). The categorical perception of voicing in French-German bilinguals. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences and Sociedad Espanola de Psicologia Experimental joint meeting, pp. 80, Liège, Belgium. May 10-11, 2012.

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Serniclaes, W., Colin, C. (2011). Malleability of the French voicing perception after auditory training in young children. 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), San Sebastian, Spain. September 29- October 2, 2011.

Collet, G., Serniclaes, W., Colin, C., & Leybaert, J. (2011). Improvement of the French voicing categorical perception in children with SLI after phonological auditory training. Symposium on Research in Children Language Disorder, Madison, WI, USA. June 7-11, 2011.

Mc Clannahan, K.S, Tremblay, K., Inoue, K., Ross, B., &  Collet, G. (2011). Auditory Training: Stimulus exposure, task execution, and response feedback affect the neural detection of sound. 161th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, USA. May 23-27, 2011.

Collet, G., Leybaert, J.,  & Colin, C.  (2010). Is statistical training efficient to increase fine-grained acoustic discrimination in syllables? Annual meeting of the
Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Brussels, Belgium. May 28, 2010.

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Buc Calderon, C., Leonard, E., Mahieu, V., Meriot, D., Stuhec, S., Suárez Suanzes, J., & Colin, C. (2010). Modulation of the Categorical Perception of speech by an auditory discrimination training. Annual meeting of the
Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Brussels, Belgium. May 28, 2010.

Colin, C., Markessis, E., Hoonhorst, I., Collet, G., & Deltenre P. (2009). Frequency sweep contrasts reveal a major dissociation between MMN parameters and behavioral performances. Fifth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications, Budapest, Hungary. April 4 to 7, 2009.

Collet, G., Colin, C, Hoonhorst, I, Deltenre, P, Serniclaes, W., & Leybaert, J. (2008). The effect of a perceptual fading training on the categorical perception of a voicing continuum. First Meeting of the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN), Edinburgh, Scotland. September 2 to 5, 2008.

Collet, G., Colin, C., Deltenre, P, Serniclaes, W., & Leybaert, J. (2007). Impact d’un entraînement sur la perception du délai d’établissement du voisement : approches comportementales et électrophysiologiques. 30ème Symposium de l’Association de Psychologie Scientifique de Langue Française, Bruxelles, Belgique. September 24 & 25, 2007.


Invited talks

Collet, G., Huyse, O. and Calcus, A. (2012). Les forces et faiblesses du système auditif [Strengths and Weaknesses of the Auditory System]. Semaine du Son, Brussels, Belgium.

Collet, G., Colin, C. and Leybaert, J. (2011). Etude de la perception catégorielle du voisement chez les enfants dysphasiques : Effet d’un entraînement auditif [Categorical Perception in SLI children : an auditory training study]. Centre pour Handicapés Sensoriels, Brussels, Belgium.

Collet, G., Colin, C., Serniclaes, W. and Leybaert, J. (2011). Effet d'un entraînement auditif sur perception catégorielle du voisement chez des enfants dysphasiques : données préliminaires [Auditory training effects on voicing categorical perception for children with SLI : preliminary data]. Séminaire « Trouble du langage oral ». Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain, Belgique.

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Serniclaes, W. and Colin, C. (2010). Entraînement auditif et perception catégorielle d’un continuum de VOT : effets respectifs des entraînements basés sur l’identification et la discrimination [Auditory training and categorical perception on VOT : identification and discrimination training effects]. Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (LPP), Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France.

Collet, G.
, Leybaert, J. and Colin, C. (2009). Effects of distributional cues on phonetic discrimination and categorical perception in adult French speakers: Preliminary studies. Experimental Linguistics Talks in Utrecht (ELiTU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.


Interactions with the media

05/02/2012: Podcast – Speech perception and auditory training (in “Paroles de chercheurs”)
01/24/2012: Radio interview – Strengths and Weaknesses of the Auditory System (on Radio Campus)
March 2005 : Poster presentation – L’illusion de la conscience [The illusion of consciousness] (Printemps des sciences : Le cerveau, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

 
Abroad Academic Background

March 2011: Categorical Perception Meeting in the School of Computing at University of Leeds (Leeds - UK). Auditory training effect on speech categorical perception: perspective using neural network modelling.
Supervisor: B. Damper, PhD & S. Worgan, PhD

July 2010 – August 2010: Visiting Research Assistant in the Brain and Behavior Laboratory (Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences) at University of Washington (Seattle – USA).
Supervisor: K. Tremblay, PhD

September 2009 – January 2010: Visiting Research Assistant in the Brain and Behavior Laboratory (Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences) at University of Washington (Seattle – USA). Funded by the National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S - FNRS)
Supervisor: K. Tremblay, PhD

September 2008 – October 2008: English Immersion Program at the Horner School of English. Dublin, Ireland. Funded by Forem Formation, Boulevard Tirou 104, 6000 Charleroi, Belgium.

August 2006 – December 2006: Clinical Intern at the Montreal Neurological Institute - MNI (McGill University – Canada). Neuropsychological evaluation of pre or post surgery epileptic patients
Supervisors: M. Jones-Gotman, PhD & V. Sziklas, PhD
Title: « Intracarotide amobarbital procedure » in neuropsychological evaluation of epileptic patient
Active participation to the Etomidate Speech and Memory Test (eSAM – Wada test).