| | The international scientific Committee of the '8th Christian Benoît Award' has completed the evaluation of the applications and has taken a decision.
The Winner is
Mathilde Fort
Center for Brain and Cognition, Speech Acquisition and Perception Group
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.sap.upf.edu/node/328
for the research project entitled ' InfEyMo : Infant learning from the Eyes and the Mouth of a talking face'.
In this project, Mathilde will explore the impact of early bilingualism on the way infants explore and react to talking faces. She will conduct several eye-tracking studies on audiovisual perception of speech and non-speech facial movements with infants growing up in monolingual vs. bilingual environments.
On behalf of the Association Christian Benoît and of the scientific committee; we would like to congratulate Mathilde and to thank all the applicants for their works. Many of the applications are of very high quality. We hope that their authors will find other financial supports to achieve their research projects.
The Award will be officially delivered at the Interspeech 2015 Conference in Dresden (Germany) (http://www.interspeech2015.org/)
Best
Pascal Perrier & Jean-Luc Schwartz |
