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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
2008 - 2012: PhD student 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 : Cécile Colin (Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives - ULB) and 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 disorder (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 revision). 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., Schmitz, R., Urbain, C., Leybaert, J., Colin, C., & Peigneux, P. (accepted). Sleep may not benefit learning new phonological categories (Frontiers in Sleep and Chronobiology)

Collet, G., Colin, C., Serniclaes, W., Hoonhorst, I., Markessis, I., Deltenre,  P., & Leybaert, J. (accepted). Effect of phonological training in French children with SLI : perspectives on voicing identification, discrimination and categorical perception (Research in Developmental Disabilities).

Collet, G., Leybaert, J., Serniclaes, W., & Colin, C. (2012). Apprentissage de contrastes non-natis : Limites des entraînements statistiques [Learning non-native contrasts : Limits of the statistical training] (Journée d’Etude de la Parole)

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. 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. Les cahiers de l’Audition, 20(5), 38-53.

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Presentation at National and International Conference

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. (Oral presentation)

 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. (Poster)

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. (Poster)

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 . (Poster)

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. (Oral presentation)

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. (Poster)

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 and auditory training. Annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, May 28, 2010. (Poster)

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. (Oral presentation)

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. (Oral presentation)

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, 04 to 07 April 2009. (Poster)

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, 15 and 16 October 2008. (Oral presentation)

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, 02 to 05 September 2008. (Poster)

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, 26 May 2008 (Oral presentation)

Collet, G. (2008). Entraînement et perception catégorielle : analyse de la plasticité cérébrale par les potentiels évoqués corticaux de langue latence. Workshop Colonster, Liège, Belgium, 11 and 12 April 2008. (Oral presentation)

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, 16 to 19 January 2008. (Oral presentation)

Collet, G., Colin, C., Deltenre, P, Serniclaes, W. and 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, 24 and 25 September 2007. (Poster)

Invited Talk
 
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 & S. Worgan

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).