Recent Publications

Articles

• Ansari, D, Gervain, J. Registered Reports: Introducing a New Article Format in Developmental Science (Editorial). Developmental Science, 2021, 21 (1), pp.1-2.
• de la Cruz Pavìa, I, Gervain, J. Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: A look from the perspective of the same/different distinction. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021, 37, pp.125-132.
• Yücel*, M, v Lühmann*, A, Scholkmann*, F, Gervain*, J, Dan*, I, Ayaz, H, Boas, D, Cooper, RJ, Culver, J, Elwell, C, Eggebrecht, A, Franceschini, M A, Grova, C, Homae, F, Lesage, F, Obrig, H, Tachtsidis, I, Tak, S, Tong, Y, Torricelli, A, Wabnitz, H, Wolf, M (* joint first authorship). Best Practices for fNIRS publications. Neurophotonics, 2021.
• Ortiz Barajas, M C, Guevara, R, Gervain, J. The origins and development of speech envelope tracking during the first months of life. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2021.
• Gervain, J, de la Cruz-Pavía, I, Gerken, LA. Behavioral and imaging studies of infant artificial grammar learning. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2020, 12 (3), pp.815-827.
• Ladányi, E, Kovács, Á, Gervain, J. How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?. Infancy, 2020, 25, pp.190-204.
• Huffmeijer, R, Bakermans, M, Gervain, J. Maternal Intrusiveness Predicts Infants’ Event-Related Potential Responses to Angry and Happy Prosody Independent of Infant Frontal Asymmetry. Infancy, 2020, 25 (3), pp.246–263.
• Marino, C, Bernard, C, Gervain, J. Word frequency is a cue to lexical category for 8-month-old infants. Current Biology, 2020, 30, pp.1380–1386.
• ten Cate, C, Gervain, J, Levelt, C C, Petkov, C I, Zuidema, W. Editors’ Review and Introduction: Learning Grammatical Structures: Developmental, Cross‐Species, and Computational Approaches. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2020, 12 (3), pp.804-814.
• Forgács, B, Gervain, J, Parise, E, Csibra, G, Gergely, G, Baross, J, Király, I. Electrophysiological investigation of infants’ understanding of understanding. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2020, 43, pp.e100783.
• Byers-Heinlein, K, Tsui, ASM, Bergmann, C, Black, AK, Brown, A, Carbajal, M J, Durrant, S, Fennell, CT, Fiévet, AC, Frank, MC, Gampe, A, Gervain, J, Gonzalez-Gomez, N, Hamlin, JK, Havron, N, Hernik, M, Kerr, S, Killam, H, Klassen, K, Kosie, JE, Kovács, AM, Lew-Williams, C, Liu, L, Mani, N, Marino, C, Mastroberardino, M, Mateu, V, Noble, C, Orena, AJ, Polka, L, Potter, CE, Schreiner, M, Singh, L, Soderstrom, M, Sundara, M, Waddell, C, Werker, JF, Wermelinger, S. A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2020.
• Cabrera L, Gervain J. Speech perception at birth: the brain encodes fast and slow temporal information. Science advances, 2020, 6(30).
• de la Cruz-Pavía I, Elordieta G, Villegas J, Gervain J, Laka I. Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020.
• Marino, C, Gervain, J. The novelty effect as a predictor of language outcome. Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, 10, pp.258.
• Marino, C, Gervain, J. The impact of generative linguistics on psychology: Language acquisition, a paradigm example. Acta Linguistica Academica, 2019, 66 (3), pp.371-396.
• Gervain, J, Geffen, M N. Efficient Neural Coding in Auditory and Speech Perception. Trends Neurosci, 2019, 42 (1), pp.56-65.
• Forgács, B, Parise, E, Csibra, G, Gergely, G, Jacquey, L, Gervain, J. Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners. Developmental Science, 2019, 22, pp.e12751.
• Gonzalez-Gomez Nayeli, Schmandt S, Fazekas J, Nazzi T, Gervain J. Infants’ sensitivity to nonadjacent vowel dependencies: The case of vowel harmony in Hungarian. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2019, 178, pp.170-183.
• de la Cruz-Pavía I, Gervain J, Vatikiotis-Bateson E, Werker J F. Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy. PLoS ONE, 2019, 14 (11), pp.e0224786.
• de la Cruz-Pavía I, Gervain J, Vatikiotis-Bateson E, Werker J F. Coverbal speech gestures signal phrase boundaries: A production study of Japanese and English infant- and adult-directed speech. Language Acquisition, 2019.
• de la Cruz-Pavía I, Werker J F, Vatikiotis-Bateson E, Gervain J. Finding phrases: The interplay of word frequency, phrasal prosody and co-speech visual information in chunking speech by monolingual and bilingual adults. Language and Speech, 2019.
• Kubicek, C, Gervain, J, Loevenbruck, H, Pascalis, O, Schwarzer, G. Goldilocks vs. Goldlöckchen: Visual speech preference for same-rhythm-class languages in 6-month-old infants. Infant and Child Development, 2018, 27, pp.e2084.
• Gervain, J. The role of prenatal experience in language development. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2018, 21, pp.62-67.
• Gervain J, de la Cruz-Pavía I, Gerken LA. Behavioral and Imaging Studies of Infant Artificial Grammar Learning. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018.
• Issard C, Gervain J. Variability of the hemodynamic response in infants: Influence of experimental design and stimulus complexity. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 2018.
• Varnet, L, Ortiz-Barajas, M C, Guevara Erra, R, Gervain, J, Lorenzi, Ch. A cross-linguistic study of speech modulation spectra. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017, 142 (4), pp.1976-1989.
• Frank, MC, Bergelson, E, Bergmann, C, Cristia, A, Floccia, C, Gervain, J, Hamlin, JK, Hannon, EE, Kline, M, Levelt, C, Lew-Williams, C, Nazzi, T, Panneton, R, Rabagliati, H, Soderstrom, M, Sullivan, J, Waxman, S, Yurovsky, D. A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory-building. Infancy, 2017, 22, pp.421-435. (PDF)
• Kriszta Szendroi, Carline Bernard, Frauke Berger, Judit Gervain, Barbara Hoehle. Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French and German 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds. Journal of Child Language, 2017.
• Benavides Varela, S, Gervain, J. Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017, 25, pp.198-208.
• Lilian May, Judit Gervain, Manuel Carreiras, Janet F Werker. The neonate neural response to native, non-native and whistled language. Developmental Science, 2017.
• Issard C, Gervain J. Adult-like processing of time-compressed speech by newborns: A NIRS study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2016.
• Judit Gervain, Ansgar D Endress. Learning multiple rules simultaneously: affixes are more salient than reduplications. Memory and Cognition, 2016.
• Molnar M, Carreiras M, Gervain J. Language dominance shapes non-linguistic rhythmic grouping in bilinguals. Cognition, 2016, 152, pp.150-9.
• Gervain J, Werker JF, Black A, Geffen MN. The neural correlates of processing scale-invariant environmental sounds at birth. Neuroimage, 2016, 133, pp.144-50.
• Abboub N, Nazzi T, Gervain J. Prosodic grouping at birth. Brain Lang, 2016, 162, pp.46-59. (PDF)
• Guevara-Erra R, Gervain J. The efficient coding of speech: cross-linguistic differences. Plos One, 2016, pp.under revision.
• Bouchon C, Nazzi T, Gervain J. Hemispheric asymmetries in repetition enhancement and suppression effects in the newborn brain. PlosOne, 2015, 10, pp.e0140160.
• Gervain J, Werker JF, Geffen MN. Category-specific processing of scale-invariant sounds in infancy. Plos One, 2014.
• Cristia A, Minagawa-Kawai Y, Egorova N, Gervain J, Filippin L, Cabrol D, Dupoux E. Neural correlates of infant accent discrimination: an fNIRS study. Developmental Science, 2014, DOI 10.1111.
• Kubicek C, Hillairet de Boisferon A, Dupierrix E, Pascalis O, Lœvenbruck H, Gervain J, Schwarzer G. Cross-modal matching of audiovisual German and French fluent speech in infancy. Plos One, 2014, 9, pp.e89275. (PDF)
• Molavi B, May L, Gervain J, Carreiras M, Werker J F, Dumont G. Analyzing Resting State Functional Connectivity in the Human Language System using Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013, 7, pp.921. (PDF)
• Gervain J, Vines BW, Chen LM, Hensch TK, Young AH, Werker JF. Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013, 7, pp.102. (PDF)
• Molnar M, Gervain J, Carreiras M. Within-rhythm Class Native Language Discrimination Abilities of Basque-Spanish Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 3.5 Months of Age. Infancy, 2013, doi: 10.111. (PDF)
• Gervain J, Sebastián-Gallés N, Díaz B, Mazuka R, Yamane N, Laka I, Nespor M, Mehler J. Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 2013, 4, pp.689. (PDF)
• Kubicek C, Hillairet de Boisferon A, Dupierrix E, Loevenbruck H, Gervain J, Schwarzer G. Face-scanning behavior to silently talking faces in 12-month-old infants: The role of pre-exposed auditory speech. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013, 37, pp.106-110. (PDF)
• Gervain J, Werker J F. Prosody cues word order in 7-month-old bilingual infants. Nature Communications, 2013, 4, pp.1490. (PDF)
• Gervain J, Werker JF. Learning Non-Adjacent Regularities at 7 months. Journal of Child Language, 2012, doi:10.1017.
• Gervain J, Guevara R. The statistical signature of morphosyntax: A Study of Hungarian and Italian Infant-Directed Speech. Cognition, 2012, 125, pp.236-287. (PDF)
• Gervain J, Berent I, Werker J F. Binding at birth: the newborn brain detects identity relations and sequential position in speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012, 24, pp.564-574. (PDF)
• Bernard C, Gervain J. Prosodic cues to word order: what level of representation?. Frontiers in Psychology, 2012, 3, pp.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00451.
• Gervain J, Mehler J, Werker JF, Nelson CA, Csibra G, Lloyd-Fox S, Shukla M, Aslin RA. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell infant methodology consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011, 1, pp.22-46.
• May L, Byers-Heinlein K, Gervain J, Werker J F. Language and the newborn brain: does prenatal language experience shape the neonate neural response to speech?. Frontiers in Psychology, 2011, 2, pp.222.
• Geffen M N, Gervain J, Werker J F, Magnasco M O. Auditory perception of self-similarity in water sounds. Front Integr Neurosci, 2011, 5, pp.15.
• Gervain J, Mehler J. Speech perception and language acquisition in the first year of life. Annual Review of Psychology, 2010, 61, pp.191-218.
• Yoshida KA, Iversen JR, Patel AD, Nito H, Mazuka R, Gervain J, Werker JF. The development of perceptual grouping in infancy: a cross-linguistic study. Cognition, 2010, 115, pp.356-361.
• Gervain Judit. Resumption in Focus(-Raising). Lingua, 2009, 119, pp.687-707.
• Gervain Judit, Nespor Marina, Mazuka Reiko, Horie Ryota, Mehler Jacques. Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: A Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study. Cognitive Psychology, 2008, 57, pp.56-74.
• Gervain Judit, Macagno Francesco, Cogoi Silvia, PenA Marcela, Mehler Jacques. The neonate brain detects speech structure. PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008, 105, pp.14222-14227.
• Gervain Judit, Werker Janet F. How infant speech perception contributes to language acquisition. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2008, 2, pp.1149-1170.

Chapters

• Gervain, J, Christophe, A, Mazuka, R. Prosodic Bootstrapping. The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody., Gussenhoven, C, Chen, A - Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Ladányi, E, Gervain, J, Forgács, B. Nyelvfeldolgozás [Language processing]. A pszichológia kézikönyve [The Handbook of Psychology]., Pléh, Cs - Akadémiai Kiadó, 2021.
• Gervain, J. Development of Speech Perception. The Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience of Speech Perception. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Holt, L, Popper, A, Peelle, J - Springer, 2021.
• Ladány, E, Gervain, J. Language Development in Infancy. Oxford Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Cohen-Kadosh, K - Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Ortiz, M, Gervain, J. The role of prenatal experience and basic auditory mechanisms in the development of language. The Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, Volume 40: Human Communication: Origins, Mechanisms and Functions, Sera, M, Koenig, M - Wiley, 2021.
• Gervain, J. The early acquisition of morphology in agglutinating languages: The case of Hungarian. A Life in Cognition, J Gervain, G Csibra, K Kovács - Springer, 2021.
• Gervain, J. Typical Language Development. Neurodevelopmental and cognitive disabilities. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Gallagher, A, Michaud, J, Bulteau, Ch, Cohen, D - Elsevier, pp.171-183, 2020.
• Gervain, J. Chomsky hatása a nyelvelsajátítás kutatására” [Chomsky’s influence on languge acquisition research]. Nyelv, biológia, szabadság. A 90 éves Chomsky jelentősége a tudományban és azon túl [Language, biology, freedom. The impact of the 90-year-old Noam Chomsky in science and beyond], Kenesei, I - Gondolat Kiadó, pp.85-112, 2019.
• Gervain, J. Miért különleges a beszéd? A beszéd mint kitüntetett hanginger a hatékony ideigi kódolás elmélete szerint. [Why is Speech Special? Speech as a special auditory stimulus within the framework of efficient neural coding theory]. Stratégiák és struktúrák. Tanulmányok Kenesei István 70. születésnapjára [Strategies & Structures. Festschrift for Istvan Kenesei’s 70th Birthday]., T Szécsényi & E Németh T - JATEPress, 2017.
• Judit Gervain. Gateway to language: The perception of prosody at birth. Boundaries Crossed: Studies at the crossroads of morphosyntax, phonology, pragmatics, and semantics, Z Bánréti, H Bartos, M den Dikken, T Váradi (eds) - Springer, pp.373-384, 2017.
• Judit Gervain. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, James D Wright - Oxford, 2015.
• Gervain, J. “Nyelvek és nyelvtanok” [Languages and Grammars]. Pszicholingvisztika 1-2. [Psycholinguistics]., Cs Pléh & A Lukács - Akadémiai Kiadó, pp.117-147, 2014.
• Gervain J. Developmental Science and the Nature-Nurture Issue: The Case of Language. Naturalistic Approaches to Culture., P. Richerson G Csibra, Cs. Pléh - 2014.
• Gervain J. Szerkezet és agy a nyelvfejlődés legkorábbi szakaszaiban [Structure and the brain in early language development]. Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok [Studies in General Linguistics], Pléh, Cs. - 2013.
• Gervain J. Early rule learning ability and language acquisition. Recursion and Language, Lowenthal F, ,Lefebvre F - Springer, pp.89-99, 2013.
• Werker J, Gervain J. Speech Perception and Phonological Development. The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Zelazo PD. - Oxford University Press, pp.909-925, 2013.
• Shukla M, Gervain J, Mehler J, Nespor M. Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Learning in Early Language Acquisition. Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition, Rebuschat P, Williams J - Mouton de Gruyter, 2012.
• Molavi B, Gervain J, , Dumont G A. Estimating cortical connectivity in functional near infrared spectroscopy using multivariate autoregressive modeling. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, pp.2334-2337, 2011.
• Gervain Judit. A statisztikai tanulás és a szabálytanulás idegi alapjai [The neural correlates of statistical learning and rule extraction]. Kognitív Idegtudomány [Cognitive Neuroscience], Pléh, Cs., Gy. Kovács B Gulyás - Osiris, 2010.
• Mehler J, Gervain J, Endress A D, Shukla M. Mechanisms of language acquisition: imaging and behavioral evidence. Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Nelson CA., Luciana M - MITPress, 2008.
• Mehler Jacques, Endress Ansgar, Gervain Judit, Nespor Marina. From perception to grammar. Early language development: Bridging brain and behaviour., Friederici, Angela D. ,Thierry, Guillaume - John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.191-213, 2008.