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 13 55 09 72
 

I am a staff CNRS researcher in cognitive science at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, where I investigate the cognitive and neural 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 damaged 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 the Europeran Research Council:.

Good news !

Accepted in 2011:

Llorens, A., Trébuchon, A., Liégeois-Chauvel, C., & Alario, F.-X. (2011). Intra-cranial recordings of brain activity during language production. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. link.

Dufau, S. et al. (2011). Smart Phone, Smart Science: How the Use of Smartphones Can Revolutionize Research in Cognitive Science. PLoS ONE 6(9): e24974. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024974. PDF.

Sadat, J., Martin, C., Alario, F.-X., & Costa, A. (2011). Characterizing the bilingual disadvantage in noun phrase production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. PDF.

Alario, F.-X. (Ed.) (2011). Toutes les questions que vous vous posez sur votre cerveau. Paris: Odile Jacob.

Alario, F.-X. (2011). La production de mots. Pour la Science, 403, 50-55.

Ayora, P., Peressotti, F., Alario, F.-X., Mulatti, C., Pluchino, P., Job, R., & Dell’Acqua R. (2011). What phonological facilitation tells about semantic interference: A dual-task study. Frontiers in Psychology, 2:57. link

Bürki, A., Alario, F.-X., & Frauenfelder, U.H. (2011). Lexical representation of phonological variants: evidence from pseudohomophone effects. Journal of Memory and Language, 64, 424-442.

work in progress  |  publications  |  cv

Current collaborators include

• Anaïs Llorens, neuroscience PhD student
  Spatio-temporal dynamics of lexical selection (co-dir. Cath. Liégeois-Chauvel)


• 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

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