The Auditory Language Group was created at the Brain Imaging Center in Frankfurt in 2002. Since January 2009 we are an Inserm Team of the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives (U960) in the Départment d'Etudes Cognitives (DEC) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris.
Our primary interest is in the neurophysiology of speech perception. We use PET, fMRI, EEG, MEG, sEEG and computation modelling to understand the basic mechanisms of speech perception in healthy humans and their dysfunction in patients with linguistic communication disorders. The pathologies we are interested in are deafness, auditory rehabilitation by cochlear implants, dyslexia and autism.
Our experimental research is carried out at CENIR (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris), Neurospin (Gif sur Yvette) and CERMEP (Lyon). The Team is currently funded by Inserm, CNRS, European Research Council (ERC), Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR), Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale(FRM), and Advanced Bionics.

Auditory Language Group, LNC, March 2009