Publications

(articles in peer-reviewed journals)

Highton, D., Boas, D., Minagawa, Y., Mesquita, R. C., Gervain, J. 2023. “hirty Years of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy”. Neurophotonics. 10(2): 023501.

Hunter S., Flaten E., Petersen C., Gervain J., Werker J.F., Trainor L.J., Finlay B.B. 2023. “Babies, Bugs and Brains: How the early microbiome associates with infant brain and behavior development”. PLoS One.

de la Cruz-Pavìa, I., Gervain, J. 2023. “Six-month-old infants’ perception of structural regularities in speech”. Cognition. 238: 105526

Nallet, C., Berent, I., Werker, J. F., Gervain, J. 2023. “The neonate brain’s sensitivity to repetition-based structure: specific to speech?”. Developmental Science.

Gervain, J., Mingawa, Y., Emberson, L., Lloyd-Fox, S. 2023. “Using fNIRS to Study the Early Developing Brain: Future Directions and New Challenges”. Neurophotonics. 10(2): 023519, doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.2.023519

Martinez-Alvarez, A., Gervain, J., Koulaguina, E., Pons, F., de Diego-Balaguer, R. 2023. “Prosodic cues enhance infants’ sensitivity to non-adjacent regularities”. Science Advances.

Gemignani, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Martinez, A., Nallet, C., Pasquini, A., Lucarini, G., Cavicchiolo, F., Gervain, J. 2023. “The reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach”. Neurophotonics.

Berent, I., Gervain, J. 2023. “Speakers aren't blank slates (with respect to sign-language phonology)!”. Cognition.

Ayaz, Hasan, Baker, Wesley B, Blaney, Giles, Boas, David A, Bortfeld, Heather, Brady, Kenneth, Brake, Joshua, Brigadoi, Sabrina, Buckley, Erin M, Carp, Stefan A, Cooper, Robert J, Cowdrick, Kyle R, Culver, Joseph P, Dan, Ippeita, Dehghani, Hamid, Devor, Anna, Durduran, Turgut, Eggebrecht, Adam T, Emberson, Lauren L, Fang, Qianqian, Fantini, Sergio, Franceschini, Maria Angela, Fischer, Jonas B, Gervain, Judit, Hirsch, Joy, Hong, Keum-Shik, Horstmeyer, Roarke, Kainerstorfer, Jana M, Ko, Tiffany S, Licht, Daniel J, Liebert, Adam, Luke, Robert, Lynch, Jennifer M, Mesquida, Jaume, Mesquita, Rickson C, Naseer, Noman, Novi, Sergio L, Orihuela-Espina, Felipe, O'Sullivan, Thomas D, Peterka, Darcy S, Pifferi, Antonio, Pollonini, Luca, Sassaroli, Angelo, Sato, João Ricardo, Scholkmann, Felix, Spinelli, Lorenzo, Srinivasan, Vivek J, St Lawrence, Keith, Tachtsidis, Ilias, Tong, Yunjie, Torricelli, Alessandro, Urner, Tara, Wabnitz, Heidrun, Wolf, Martin, Wolf, Ursula, Xu, Shiqi, Yang, Changhuei, Yodh, Arjun G, Yücel, Meryem A, Zhou, Wenjun (2022). Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report. Neurophotonics, doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.9.S2.S24001

Visser, I., Geambasu, A., Baumgartner, H., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Carstensen, A., Doyle, F., Gervain, J., Hannon, E., Johnson, S., Kachergis, G., Kline Struhl, M., Kosie, J., Lew-Williams, C., Mayor, J., Moreau, D., Mueller, J. L., Raijmakers, M., Shukla, M., Tsui, A. S. M., Sirois, S., Westermann, G., Soderstrom, M., Levelt, C. (2022). “ManyBabies 3:  A multi-lab study of infant algebraic rule learning.” Developmental Science. Stage 1 In Principle Accepted Registeed Report.

Martinez Alvarez, A., Benavides-Varela, S, Lapillonne, A. Gervain, J. 2022. “Newborns discriminate utterance-level prosodic contours”. Developmental Science, 26(2):e13304.

Coëz, A., Loundon, N., Rouillon, I., Parodi, M., Blanchard, M., Achard, S., Garabédian, E.N., Bizaguet, E., Tabassome, S., Tessier, N., Denoyelle, F., Gervain, J. 2022. “The recognition of human voice in deaf and hearing infants”. Hearing, Balance and Communication, 20:3, 179-185.

Nallet, C., Gervain, J. 2022. “Atypical neural oscillations in response to speech in infants and children with speech and language impairments: A systematic review”. Hearing, Balance and Communication, 20:3, 145-154.

Zhang, F., Gervain, J., Roeyers, H. 2022. “Developmental Changes in the Brain Response to Speech during the First Year of Life: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Dutch-Learning Infants”. Infant Behavior and Development, 67: 101724.

de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Westphal-Fitch, G., Fitch, T., Gervain, J. 2022. “Seven-month-old infants detect symmetrical structures in multi-featured abstract visual patterns”. PLoS One. 17(5): e0266938.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Gergely, Gy., Priyanka Elek, L., Üllei-Kovács, Zs., Király, I. 2022. “Semantic Systems Are Mentalistically Activated for and by Social Partners”. Scientific Reports 12:4866.

de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Elordieta, G., Villegas, J., Gervain, J., Laka, I. 2022. “Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 25:2, 676-695.

Hym, Ch., Barbu-Roth, M., Nazzi, T., Gervain, J., Provasi, J., Huet, V., Dollat, C., Anderson, D. 2022. “Newborns modulate their crawling in response to their native language but not another language”. Developmental Science. e13248.

Forgács, B., Tauzin, T., Gergely, Gy., Gervain, J. 2022. “The newborn brain is sensitive to the communicative function of language”. Scientific Reports. 12:1220.

Berent, I., de la Cruz Pavia, I., Brentari, D. K., Gervain, J. 2021. “Infants differentially extract rules from language”. Scientific Reports 11:20001.

Gemignani, J., Gervain J. 2021. “A practical guide for synthetic fNIRS data generation”. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE.

Fouladivanda, M., Kazemi, K., Makki, K., Khalilian, M., Danyali, H., Gervain, J., Aarabi, A. 2021. “Multi-scale Structural Rich-Club Organization of the Brain in Full-term Newborns: a combined DWI and fMRI study”. Journal of Neural Engineering, 18(4).

de la Cruz Pavia, I., Marino, C., Gervain, J. 2021. “Learning Word Order: Early Beginnings”. Trends in Cognitive Science. 25(9): 802-812.

Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Kubicek, C., Gervain, J., Schwarzer, G., Loevenbruck, H., Vilain, A., Fort, M., Méary, D., Pascalis, O. 2021. “Language familiarity influences own-race face recognition in 9- and 12-month-old infants”. Infancy.

Nallet, C., Gervain, J. 2021. “Neurodevelopmental Preparedness for Language in the Neonatal Brain”. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Marino, C., Gervain, J. 2021. “8-month-old infants’ ability to process word order is shaped by the amount of exposure”. Cognition.

Ladányi, E., Lukács, Á., Gervain, J. 2021. “Does rhythmic priming improve grammatical processing in Hungarian-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder?” Developmental Science. 

Gemignani, J., Gervain, J. 2021. “Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Ortiz Barajas, M. C., Guevara, R., Gervain, J. 2021. “The origins and development of speech envelope tracking during the first months of life”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

Yücel*, M., v. Lühmann*, A., Scholkmann*, F., Gervain*, J., Dan*, I., Ayaz, H., Boas, D., Cooper, R.J., 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. 2021. “Best Practices for fNIRS publications”. Neurophotonics. (* joint first authorship)

de la Cruz Pavìa, I., Gervain, J. 2021. “Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: A look from the perspective of the same/different distinction”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 37: 125-132.

Byers-Heinlein, K., Tsui, A.S.M., Bergmann, C., Black, A.K., Brown, A., Carbajal, M. J., Durrant, S., Fennell, C.T., Fiévet, A.C., Frank, M.C., Gampe, A., Gervain, J., Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hamlin, J.K., Havron, N., Hernik, M., Kerr, S., Killam, H., Klassen, K., Kosie, J.E., Kovács, A.M., Lew-Williams, C., Liu, L., Mani, N., Marino, C., Mastroberardino, M., Mateu, V., Noble, C., Orena, A.J., Polka, L., Potter, C.E., Schreiner, M., Singh, L., Soderstrom, M., Sundara, M., Waddell, C., Werker, J.F., Wermelinger, S. 2020. “A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech”. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Cabrera, L., Gervain, J. 2020. “Speech perception at birth: the brain encodes fast and slow temporal information”. Science Advances. Vol. 6, no. 30, eaba7830.

Forgács, B., Gervain, J., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Baross, J., Király, I. 2020. “Electrophysiological Investigation of Infants’ Understanding of Understanding”. Developmenral Cognitive Neuroscience. 43: e100783.

ten Cate, C., Gervain, J., Levelt, C. C., Petkov, C. I., Zuidema, W. 2020. “Editors' Review and Introduction: Learning Grammatical Structures: Developmental, Cross‐Species, and Computational Approaches”. TopiCS. 12(3): 804-814.

Marino, C., Bernard, C., Gervain, J. 2020. “Word frequency is a cue to lexical category for 8-month-old infants”. Current Biology. 30, 1380–1386.

Huffmeijer, R., Bakermans, M., Gervain, J. 2020. “Maternal Intrusiveness Predicts Infants’ Event-Related Potential Responses to Angry and Happy Prosody Independent of Infant Frontal Asymmetry”. Infancy, 25(3): 246–263.

de la Cruz Pavìa, Elordieta, G., Villegas, J., Gervain, J., Laka, I. 2020. “Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Werker, J. F., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Gervain, J. 2020. 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 63(2), 264-291.

ManyBabies Consortium. 2020. “Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference.” Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 3(1), 24–52.

Gervain, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gerken, LA. 2020. “Behavioral and imaging studies of infant artificial grammar learning”. TopiCS. 12(3):815-827.

de la Cruz Pavia, I., Gervain, J., Vatikiotis-Batesson, E., Werker, J. 2020. “Co-verbal speech gestures signal phrase boundaries: a production study of Japanese and English infant- and adult-directed speech”. Language Acquisition. 27:2, 160-186.

Ladányi, E., Kovács, Á., Gervain, J. 2020. “How 15-month-old infants process morphologically complex forms in an agglutinative language?”. Infancy. 25: 190– 204.

de la Cruz Pavia, I., Gervain, J., Vatikiotis-Batesson, E., Werker, J. 2019. “Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy”. PlosOne, 14(11): e0224786.

Gervain, J. 2019. “A magyar morfológia elsajátításának kezdetei” [The early acquisition of Hungarian morphology]. Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat Special Issue: Festschrift in Honor of Marta Maleczki. 6/2:57–71.

Marino, C., Gervain, J. 2019. “The novelty effect as a predictor of language outcome”. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:258.

Marino, C., Gervain, J. 2019. “The impact of generative linguistics on psychology: Language acquisition, a paradigm example”. Acta Linguistica Academica, 66:3, 371-396.

Gervain, J., Geffen, M. N. 2019. “Efficient Neural Coding in Auditory and Speech Perception”. Trends in Neurosciences, 42:1, 56-65.

Forgács, B., Parise, E., Csibra, G., Gergely, G., Jacquey, L., Gervain, J. 2019. “Fourteen-month-old infants track the language comprehension of communicative partners”. Developmental Science, 22:e12751.

Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Schmandt, S. Fazekas, J., Nazzi, Th., Gervain, J. 2018. “Infants’ sensitivity to non-adjacent vowel dependencies: The case of vowel harmony in Hungarian”. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 178: 170-183.

Gervain, J. 2018. “The role of prenatal experience in language development”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 21: 62-67.

Issard, C. & Gervain, J. 2018. “Variability of the Hemodynamic Response Shape in Infants: Influence of Experimental Design and Stimulus Complexity”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 33: 182-193.

Ansari, D., Gervain, J. 2018. “Registered Reports: Introducing a New Article Format in Developmental Science (Editorial)”. Developmental Science. 21(1): 1-2.

Kubicek, C., Gervain, J., Loevenbruck, H., Pascalis, O., Schwarzer, G., in press. “Goldilocks vs. Goldlöckchen: Visual speech preference for same-rhythm-class languages in 6-month-old infants”. Infant and Child Development. doi 10.1002/icd.2084.

Varnet, L., Ortiz-Barajas, M. C., Guevara Erra, R., Gervain, J., Lorenzi, Ch. 2017. “A cross-linguistic study of speech modulation spectra.”JASA. 142(4): 1976-1989. doi: 10.1121/1.5006179

Floccia, C., Sambrook, T. D., Delle Luche, C., Kwok, R., Goslin, J., White, L., Cattani, A., Sullivan, E., Abbot-Smith, K., Krott, A., Mills, D., Rowland, C., Gervain, J., & Plunkett, K. accepted. “Vocabulary of 2-Year-Olds Learning English and an Additional Language: Norms and Effects of Linguistic Distance.” Monographs of the Society for Research In Child Development.

Szendroi, K., Bernard, C., Berger, F., Gervain J., Höhle B. 2018. “Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French and German 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-year-olds”. Journal of Child Language.

Frank, M. C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., Hamlin, J. K., Hannon, E. E., Kline, M., Levelt, C., Lew-Williams, C., Nazzi, T., Panneton, R., Rabagliati, H., Soderstrom, M., Sullivan, J., Waxman, S., Yurovsky, D. 2017. A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory-building. Infancy.

Benavides Varela S., Gervain, J. 2017. “Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

May, L., Gervain, J., Carreiras, M., Werker, J.F. 2017. “The neonate neural response to native, non-native and whistled language”. Developmental Science.

Issard, C., Gervain, J. 2016. “Adult-like processing of time-compressed speech by newborns: a NIRS study”. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2016.10.006

Gervain, J., Endress, A. D. 2016. “Learning multiple rules simultaneously: affixes are more salient than reduplications”. Memory & Cognition. Doi: 10.3758/s13421-016-0669-9

Abboub, N., Nazzi, Th., Gervain, J. 2016. “Prosodic grouping at birth”. Brain and Language. 162:46-59.

Molnár, M., Carreiras, M., Gervain, J. 2016. Language discrimination and prosodic bootstrapping in early bilingual acquisition: Acoustic regularities in the Basque-Spanish bilingual speech input. Cognition. 152: 150–159. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.023

Gervain, J., Werker, J. F., Black, A., Geffen, M. N. 2016. “The neural correlates of processing scale-invariant environmental sounds at birth”. NeuroImage. 133:144-150. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.001.

Guevara Erra, R., Gervain, J. 2016. "The Efficient Coding of Speech: Cross-Linguistic Differences". PLoS One. 11(2):e0148861. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148861.