Hello and welcome!
I’m a linguist and a cognitive neuroscientist, working as a CNRS Researcher at Laboratoire Parole et Langage at Aix-Marseille Université in Aix-en-Provence in the South of France.
I’m interested in individual differences in (second) language acquisition from a neurocognitive perspective and the impact of complex environments on brain development and language skills.
Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Brain and Language Lab of Prof. Narly Golestani at the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub and the Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, San Francisco and University of Connecticut in the US with Prof. Fumiko Hoeft. I got my PhD in Linguistics at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in the Netherlands (2017), following a BA (University of Wroclaw, Poland) and MA (Leiden University) degrees in Dutch Studies and an MA in Linguistics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
My PhD focused on neural mechanisms and brain structures underlying successful foreign language learning. I looked into neural correlates of the analytical component of language aptitude using functional MRI, diffusion imaging and EEG. More recently, I was involved in a longitudinal neuroimaging study using cross-linguistic data to understand the impact of multilingualism on children’s cognitive and neural outcomes. My most recent work concentrates on language typology, its relation to multilingual language competence and neural signatures.