Since Sept. 2006     
Associate professor
 
2009-2011
               
CNRS delegate (Humanities and Social Sciences Institute)
 
2005-2006
               
Post-doctoral fellow
Cognitive Information Science Dept, ATR (Japon)
Research topics: 
inter-linguistic comparison of audiovisual perception of prosody 
and fMRI exploration of the audiovisual perception of prosodic contrastive focus in French.
Collaborations
within ATR: Daniel E. Callan, Harold Hill, Akiko
Callan
 
2002-2005
               
Ph.D. student, Cognitive Sciences  
 
2002-2005
               
Teaching assistant
Grenoble Institute of Technology
ENSERG engineering school (Electronics and Radioelectricity)
Topics:
Signal processing and information theory
 
2002
              
         
Internship student
 
Spoken Translation Labs (ATR, Japan) - 5 mths
Research topic: 
automatic speech recognition in noisy environments
Supervisor: 
Tomoko Matsui
Japanese patent:
 nb. 2002-264718 (10 September 2002) 
 
2002
              
         
 M.Sc., Cognitive Sciences
 
Grenoble Institute of Technology
 
2002
              
         
Engineering degree in electronics and signal processing
Major multimedia
Grenoble Institute of Technology
École Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et de
Radioélectricité de Grenoble (ENSERG)
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2014-2017
        
ComEns (FIRAH grant) 
(
International Foundation of Applied Disability Research
, 50000 euros)
Project: ComEns (Communicating together), co-construction of the multimodal 
communicative space between a person with trisomy 21 and an ordinary person 
Co-coordination with Amélie Rochet-Capellan
Project's website: click 
here
 
 
2011 & 2013
    
GesSLI 
(Health and Society SFR
, 2 grants) 
(Federative Research Society, total: 9500 euros)
Project: Gestures and Specific Language Impairments
 
2014
                  
Grant from the 
Grenoble Cognition Pole 
(2200 euros)
Project: Design of a "serious game" to test the importance of manual gestures in 
new word learning
2011
                  
Grant from the Grenoble Cognition Pole  
(3000 euros)
Project: Speech/gesture coordination and linguistic development in children
 
2005-2006
        
Grant from the 
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 
(JSPS, Kagakukenkyu-hi Hojokin, approx. 1000€) 
Project: neural correlates of the auditory-visual perception of prosodic 
contrastive focus
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2018-2021
        
Salammbo (French ANR and German DFG) 
PIs: Amélie Rochet-Capellan & Susanne Fuchs
Project: Spoken lAnguage in motions: Learning and Adaptation of speech 
coMMunication in the context of BOdy motion 
Project's website: click 
here
 
 
2018-2021
        
StopNCo (French National Research Agency) 
PI: Maeva Garnier
Project: Effort and coordination in the production of stop consonants 
Project's webpage: click 
here
 
 
2014-2018
        
Innerspeech (French National Research Agency) 
PI: Hélène Lœvenbruck 
Project: Neural correlates of Innerspeech 
Project's webpage: click 
here
 
 
2011
                  
PEPS CUE Grenoble grant 
PI: Martial Mermillod
Project: Embodied Emotion and Speech Monitoring Grenoble, EMG 
 
2009
                  
Grant from the regional cluster on Handicap, Aging and Neuroscience 
PI: Hélène Lœvenbruck
Project: Orofacial traces of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics: 
electromyography and electroglottography 
 
2009
                  
Grant from the Jacques Cartier center 
PI: Hélène Lœvenbruck & Todd Woodward
Project: Study of the cognitive mechanisms of auditory verbal hallucinations in 
schizophrenics
 
2008-2011
        
Grant from the regional cluster on Handicap, Aging and Neuroscience
PI: Monica Baciu 
Project: Functional reorganization of language and memory in epileptic patients 
before and after surgery. fMRI and EEG studies
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PAST AND ONGOING COLLABORATIONS
 
 
NATIONAL
 
INTERNATIONAL
 
PROFESSIONALS
 Marielle Lachenal
, professional trainer to the 
MAKATON gestural communication method
 
 
ASSOCIATIONS
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For more details: 
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ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSABILITIES - RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
 
 
2017-...
   
Appointed member of the Scientific Committee of GIPSA-Lab
 
2017
        
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 12th world Down syndrome day 
 
2014-...
   
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 
Health and Society SFR 
 
2014-...
   
In charge of the practical works in Automatics and Signal Processing 
PHELMA 
engineering school
Practical works cycle involving 180 1st year engineering school students 
 
 
2008-09
  
In charge of the practical works in electronics platform 
PHELMA
 engineering school
Platform used for several cycles of practical works involving about 100 2nd year 
engineering school students  
 
 
2008
        
Organization of the Speech and Face to Face Communication workshop
Tribute to Christian Benoît
27-29 October 2008, Grenoble, France
 
2007
        
Member of the organizing committee of the VOCOID workshop 
(VOcalisation, COmmunication, Imitation and Deixis)
14-16 May 2007, Grenoble, France
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Scientific evaluation committees of international conferences: 
Speech Prosody (2010, 2018), 
LabPhon 12 « Gesture as language, gesture and language » (2010), 
Journées d’Étude sur la Parole (2008, 2010, 2014, 2016), 
MULTIMOD 2009, RJCP 2011, Interspeech (2016, 2017, 2018), 
ISSP 2017, AVSP (2017, 2019)
 
Reviews for international journals: 
Cognition, 
Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 
Journal of Phonetics, 
Language and Speech, 
Speech Communication, 
Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 
Gesture, 
Language Learning 
 
Member of the international scientific committee of the COST 2102 action 
“Cross-modal Analysis of Verbal and Non- Verbal Communication” (2008-2011)
 
Invited editor – Speech Communication special issue 52(6) 
“Speech and Face to Face Communication” (2010) 
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FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
 
 
2006
           
Doctoral dissertation award
2005-2006
  
Post-doctoral fellowship
 
2004-2005
  
Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science
 
2002-2005
  
Doctoral scholarship
French education and research ministry (MNERT)
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TRANSFERING KNOWLEDGE TO PEOPLE AT LARGE
 
 
In the framework of the ComEns research project: 
Descriptive movie on the ComEns project (2017, 
here)
 
Animation movie to broadly explain the 
communicative difficulties of people with trisomy 21 («Parler avec Tom», 2017, 
here)
 
Film on the participation of people with trisomy 21 to the ComEns project (2016, 
here)
 
Realization of accessible documents to describe the results of the ComEns project
(see 
here, 
here and 
here) 
  
Animation of the “participative research” workshops designed with 
Amélie Rochet-Capellan – 
Familiarization workshops to research on speech and communication for adults 
with intellectual disabilities– twice a month – 2015-2016 – In collaboration with 
the ESAT/SAJ of the ARIST 
 
 
In the media: 
Article in the CNRS journal:
Quand le geste libère la parole. Journal du CNRS. Cailloce, L. (2016) Available 
here
 
Article on handicap.fr: 
Trisomie 21 : une technique pour faciliter la parole ? handicap.fr. 
Le Goff, A. (2016) Available 
here
 
Invitations to the « Recherche et Partage » radio show on Vivre FM (93.9) 
to present the ComEns project, 15 November 2014 & 17 December 2016 (podcasts available 
here and 
here) 
 
 
Publications for people at large and professionnals: 
Canonica, C., Dohen, M., & Rochet-Capellan, A. (2017). 
Les supports de communication adaptés. In Trisomie 21 France (Ed.), 
100 Idées pour en savoir plus sur les personnes avec trisomie 21… et casser les 
idées reçues. Editions Tom Pousse.
 
Dohen, M., & Rochet-Capellan, A. (2017). 
Le geste manuel pour soutenir la parole. 
In Trisomie 21 France (Ed.), 
100 Idées pour en savoir plus sur les personnes avec trisomie 21… et casser les 
idées reçues. Editions Tom Pousse.
 
Laflaquière, E., Lachenaud, M., Dohen, M., & Rochet-Capellan, A. (2017). 
Orthophonie à distance et troubles de l’articulation chez l’enfant : 
un état des lieux sur la base d’une enquête adressée aux praticiens français. 
Orthophonies.
 
Participation in the National Brain Week 2009 
in Grenoble – 16-22 March 2009 – Workshops on the five senses for primary school children 
 
Participation in the organization of the PRASC (Regional cognitive sciences pole) conferences 
in Grenoble – 17 December 2004 and 16 May 2003 
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COMPLEMENTARY EXPERIENCES
 
 
2006 
           
Neuroimaging
Training course in neuro-imaging – functional MRI: An introduction
Vinatier hospital, Bron, France – 2-6 October 2006
 
2005
           
Statistics
Training course in multivariate statistics
ICP, Grenoble, France – 19-22 April 2005
 
2004-2005
  
Instructor – LCHD ; High school in the hospital - Grenoble
Introduction to science through the study of the five senses to 
junior high and high school students with school phobia in order 
to make the transition from in-hospital to regular schooling.
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