Curriculum Vitae
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Born November 23th 1959 in Caen (France)
Married, 3 children
Current position:
Full-time research position in CNRS (Directrice de recherche): Cognitive
neuroimaging unit, INSERM U992, Neurospin, CEA/SAC/DSV/DRM, Bat145, point
courrier 156, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France
Education/Training
Institution and Location
University of Angers (France)
University of Paris VI
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales
Degree
MD Thesis
PhD Thesis
Habilitation
Year(s)
1988
1995
2001
Field of study
Pediatrics
Cognitive science
Cognitive science
Selected publications
h-index: 33
indice i10: 45
6795 citations (source google scholar April 2013)
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Mehler, J., Jusczyk, P.W., Lambertz, G., Halsted, N., Bertoncini, J., et Amiel-Tison, C.
(1988). A precursor of language acquisition in young infants. Cognition, 29, 143-178.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., et Dehaene S. (1994). Speed and cerebral correlates of syllable
discrimination in infants. Nature, 370, 292-295.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (1998). Syllable discrimination by premature neonates with or without
subcortical lesion. Developmental Neuropsychology, 14, 579-597.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2000). Cerebral specialization for speech and non-speech stimuli in
infants, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,12, 3, 449-460.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Pena, M. (2001) Electrophysiological evidence for automatic phonetic
processing in neonates, Neuroreport, 12, 3155-3158.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Dehaene, S. & Hertz-Pannier, L. (2002) Functional neuroimaging of
speech perception in infants, Science, 298,2013-15.
Pena, M, Maki, A., Kovačić, D., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Koizumi, H. Bouquet, F. & Mehler,
J. (2003). Sounds and silence: an optical topography study of language recognition at birth,
PNAS,100, 11702-11705.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Pena, M, Christophe, A., & Landrieu P. Phonetic processing in a
neonate with a left sylvian infarct. (2004). Brain and Language, 88, 26-38.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G. & Gliga, T. Common neural basis for phoneme processing in infants
and adults. (2004). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1375-87.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Pallier, C., Serniclaes, W., Sprenger-Charolles, L., A. Jobert &
Dehaene, S. Neural Correlates of Switching from Auditory to Speech Perception, (2005)
NeuroImage, 24, 21-33.
Gliga,T. & Dehaene-Lambertz,G. (2005). Structural encoding of body and face in human
infants and adults, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1328-1340
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Dehaene, S., Anton, J. L., Campagne, A., Ciuciu, P., Dehaene, G. P.,
Denghein I, Jobert A, LeBihan D, Sigman M, Pallier C, Poline JB. (2006). Functional
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segregation of cortical language areas by sentence repetition. Human Brain Mapping, 27,
360-371
Dubois, J., Hertz-Pannier, L., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Cointepas, Y., & LeBihan, D. (2006).
Assessment of the early organization and maturation of infants' cerebral white matter fiber
bundles: A feasibility study using quantitative diffusion tensor imaging and tractography.
Neuroimage. 30, 1121-1132.
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Hertz-Pannier, L., & Dubois, J. (2006). Nature and nurture in
language acquisition: Anatomical and functional brain-imaging studies in infants. Trends in
Neuroscience, 29(7), 367-373.
Gliga, T. & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2006) Development of a view-invariant representation of
faces in humans, Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.01.004
Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Hertz-Pannier, L., Dubois, J., Mériaux, S., Roche, A., Sigman, M., et
al. (2006). Functional organization of perisylvian activation during presentation of sentences
in preverbal infants. PNAS, 103 , 14240-14245
Andress, A. Dehaene-Lambertz, G. & Mehler, J. (2007) Perceptual constraints and the
learnability of simple grammars, Cognition, 105, 577-614.
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McCrink, K., Dehaene S. & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2007) Moving along the number
line: Operational momentum in non-symbolic arithmetic, Perception & Psychophysics,
69(8):1324—1333.
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Izard, V., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., & Dehaene, S. (2008) Distinct Cerebral Pathways for
Object Identity and Number in Human Infants PLOS Biology, 6, e11
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Dubois, J. Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Perrin, M., Mangin, J.F., Cointepas, Y., Le Bihan,
D., Hertz-Pannier. L. (2008) Asynchrony of the early maturation of white matter
bundles in healthy infants: quantitative landmarks revealed non-invasively by diffusion
tensor imaging Human Brain mapping, 29,14-27
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Dubois, J., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Soarès, C., Cointepas, Y., Le Bihan, D. & Hertz-Pannier,
L. (2008) Microstructural correlates of infant functional development: example of the visual
pathways, Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 1943-48.
Dubois, J. Hertz-Pannier, L. , Mangin, J.F., Cachia, A., Le Bihan, D., & Dehaene-Lambertz,
G., (2008) Structural asymmetries in the infant brain: an underline of functional
lateralization?, Cerebral Cortex, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn097
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Buiatti, M., Peña, M., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G., (2008) Investigating the neural
correlates of continuous speech computation with frequency-tagged neuroelectric
responses, Neuroimage, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.09.015
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Bristow, D., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Mattout, J., Soares, C., Gliga, T., Baillet, S., &
Mangin, J.F. (2009) Hearing faces: How the infant brain matches the face it sees with
the speech it hears, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 905-21
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Bernal, S., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., & Christophe, A. (2010) Beyond telegraphic speech
: Electrophysiological recordings show that 2-year-olds compute syntactic structure
on-line, Developmental Science
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Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Montavont, A., Jobert, A., Allirol, L., Dubois, J., HertzPannier, L., et S. Dehaene (2010). Language or Music, Mother or Mozart? Structural
and environmental influences on infants’ language networks Brain & Language.
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Dehaene, S., Pegado, F., Braga, L. W., Ventura, P., Nunes Filho, G., Jobert, A., G.
Dehaene-Lambertz, R. Kolinsky, J. Morais, L. Cohen (2010). Impact of literacy on the
cortical networks for vision and language, Science, 330, 1359-64.
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Leroy, F., Glasel, H., Dubois, J., Hertz-Pannier, L., B. Thirion, Mangin, J. F., &
Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2011). Early maturation of the linguistic dorsal pathway in
human infants, Journal of Neuroscience, 31, 1500-1506
 Monzalvo, K., Fluss, J., Billard, C., Dehaene, S., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2012). Cortical
networks for vision and language in dyslexic and normal-reader children of variable socioeconomic status. Neuroimage, 61, 258-274.
 Vagharchakian, L., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Pallier P., & Dehaene, S. (2012). A temporal
bottleneck in the language comprehension network, Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 9089-9102
 Pena, M., Werker, J. F., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2012). Earlier speech exposure does not
accelerate speech acquisition. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(33), 11159-11163. Jednoróg, K.,
Altarelli I., Monzalvo, K., Fluss, J., Billard, C., Dehaene-Lambertz, G. & Ramus, F. (2012)
The influence of socioeconomic status on children’s brain structure, PLoS
ONE 7(8):e42486. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042486
 Mahmoudzadeh, M., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Fournier, M., Kongolo, G., Godjil, S., Dubois, J.,
Grebe, R. & Wallois, F. (2013). Syllabic discrimination in premature human infants prior to
complete formation of cortical layers. PNAS,
Article featured in Nature News (25/2/2013) by Regina Nuzzo “Babies' brains may be tuned
to language before birth” doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12489
 Kouider, S., Stahlhut, C., Gelskov, S., Barbosa, L., Dutat, M., de Gardelle, V., Christophe, A.,
Dehaene, S., and Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2013). A neural marker of perceptual consciousness
in infants. Science
Books for the public
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P. Picq., L. Sagart, G. Dehaene, & C. Lestienne (2008), La plus belle histoire du langage,
Seuil, Paris, 184 p., translated in Arabic, Catalan, Português, Romanian, Chinese, Corean,
Turkish
Apprendre à lire, ce que disent les sciences cognitives, (2011) sous la direction de S. Dehaene
avec G. Dehaene-Lambertz, E. Gentaz, C. Huron et L. Sprenger-Charolles, Odile Jacob, Paris
Patent
18/01/02 office européen des brevets biophotometer, Hitachi & al, N°
02710312.6-2318-JP0200325
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