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Italy
2023

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37941
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2009 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jacques Mehler was affiliated with the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy. Their research primarily focused on psychology, with specific contributions in developmental and educational psychology, pharmacy, experimental and cognitive psychology, management of technology and innovation, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

Their main topics of work included child and animal learning development, language development and disorders, infant health and development, multisensory perception and integration, product development and customization, manufacturing process and optimization, and technology assessment and management.

Among the frequent coauthors who collaborated with Mehler were Milad Ekramnia, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Shari Wlecke, Andreas Gützlaff, and S. Schmitz.

Jacques Mehler published several research papers in prominent venues. Recent papers included:

  • Disjunctive inference in preverbal infants, 2021, iScience
  • Disjunctive Inference in Preverbal Infants, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Disjunctive Inference in Preverbal Infants, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Disjunctive inference in preverbal infants, 2022, iScience

The frequent publication venues where Mehler's work appeared were:

  • iScience (2 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Throughout their career, Mehler was recognized with several awards, including the Mind & Brain Prize from the University and Polytechnic of Turin in 2009, and fellowships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001).

Best Publications

  • A precursor of language acquisition in young infants.

    Jacques Mehler;Peter Jusczyk;Ghislaine Lambertz;Nilofar Halsted

  • Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal

    Franck Ramus;Marina Nespor;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler

  • Language Discrimination by Newborns: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Rhythm

    Thierry Nazzi;Josiane Bertoncini;Jacques Mehler

  • Is numerical comparison digital? Analogical and symbolic effects in two-digit number comparison

    Stanislas Dehaene;Emmanuel Dupoux;Jacques Mehler

  • The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language.

    Daniela Perani;Eraldo Paulesu;Nuria Sebastian Galles;Emmanuel Dupoux

  • The syllable’s differing role in the segmentation of French and English

    Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler;Dennis Norris;Juan Segui

  • The cortical representation of speech

    B. M. Mazoyer;N. Tzourio;V. Frak;A. Syrota

  • Epenthetic vowels in Japanese: A perceptual illusion?

    Emmanuel Dupoux;Kazuhiko Kakehi;Yuki Hirose;Christophe Pallier

  • Sounds and silence: An optical topography study of language recognition at birth

    Marcela Peña;Atsushi Maki;Damir Kovac̆ić;Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

  • Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language

    Stanislas Dehaene;Emmanuel Dupoux;Jacques Mehler;Laurent Cohen

  • The syllable's role in speech segmentation

    Jacques Mehler;Jean Yves Dommergues;Ulrich Hans Frauenfelder;Juan Segui

  • Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants.

    Ágnes Melinda Kovács;Jacques Mehler

  • Language discrimination by human newborns and by cotton-top tamarin monkeys.

    Franck Ramus;Marc D. Hauser;Cory Miller;Dylan Morris

  • A destressing deafness in French

    Emmanuel Dupoux;Christophe Pallier;Nuria Sebastian;Jacques Mehler

  • Brain processing of native and foreign languages.

    Daniela Perani;Stanislas Dehaene;Franco Grassi;Laurent Cohen

  • Mora or syllable? Speech segmentation in Japanese

    Takashi Otake;Giyooo Hatano;Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler

  • Cross-linguistic regularities in the frequency of number words.

    Stanislas Dehaene;Jacques Mehler

  • Brain Imaging of Language Plasticity in Adopted Adults: Can a Second Language Replace the First?

    C. Pallier;S. Dehaene;J.-B. Poline;D. LeBihan

  • Signal-driven computations in speech processing.

    Marcela Peña;Luca L. Bonatti;Luca L. Bonatti;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler;Jacques Mehler

  • The neonate brain detects speech structure

    Judit Gervain;Francesco Macagno;Silvia Cogoi;Marcela Peña

  • The syllable's differing role in the segmentation of French and English

    Anne Cutler;Jacques Mehler;Dennis Norris;J Sequi

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Christophe Pallier
Christophe Pallier Grenoble Alpes University
Dennis Norris
Dennis Norris University of Cambridge
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Peter W. Jusczyk
Peter W. Jusczyk Johns Hopkins University
Isabelle Peretz
Isabelle Peretz University of Montreal
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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