Mélanie JUCLA

  • Lecturer in Language Sciences
    Laboratoire de NeuroPsychoLinguistique, EA 4156 (LNPL)

    • Contact details

    Address
    Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès Maison de la Recherche, bureau E 1.15 5 allées Antonio Machado 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9
    Office
    E 1.15
    Phone
    05.61.50.24.69
    Email
    melanie.jucla@univ-tlse2.fr

    Taught academic discipline(s)

    -Psycholinguistics (L2 and M1 in Language Sciences, M2 of Neuropsychology and clinical neuroscience, Toulouse)
    -Neurolinguistics and written language disorders (M1 in Language Sciences)
    -Methods in linguistics (L1 in LS)
    -Development and Origin of Language (L1 in LS)
    -Morphology (L2 in LS).
    -Introduction to morphology, syntax and semantics (1st year of language and speech therapy institute)

    Research topics

    My theoretical and methodological background comes from psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and neuropsychology of language.

    My favorite research topics are:
    • Memory and language deficits in neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's disease, primary progressive aphasia).
    • Written language learning disorders (developmental dyslexia): phonemic awareness and visual attention span disorders, dyslexia remediation, procedural learning and memory in dyslexia and developmental coordination disorders.
    • Shared and specific processes in written versus oral language production.

    Methods used: expérimental psycholinguistics, corpus analysis, neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI).

    Activities / Resume


    Current research projects

    TellMA "Neuropsycholinguistic study of discourse in Alzheimer's disease" (PI: M. Jucla, grant from Région Midi-Pyrénées, UT2J, Inserm and ISCT, 2015-2017; co-PIs : Pr. Jérémie Pariente and Patrice Péran; Inserm ToNIC UMR 1214, CHU Toulouse).

    Co-PI of DYSTAC-MAP project "Neurocognitive study of procedural learning and memory in developemental dyslexia and developmental coordiEtude neurocognitive de l'apprentissage procédural et de la mémoire procédurale dans la Dyslexie et le Trouble de l'Acquisition de la Coordination" (PI : Pr Y. Chaix, financement ANR 2014-2018)

    Loquace « Interdependency between language and memory in neurodegenerative disorders : behavioral and neuroimaging studies" doctoral thesis in Neurosciences of Aurélie Pistono, co-supervisor Pr J. Pariente. (grant from MSHS-T).

    Neuroscribe : Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic study of written word production (with Samuel Planton, Dr in Neuropsychology and Christiane Soum, Lecturer in Language Sciences). Grants from the MSHS-T and the ISCT.


    Collaborations

    I'm working with reasearchers from different labs on different topics such as word identification in dyslexic children, neuro-functionnal correlates of reading and handwriting, language disorders in neurodegenrative deseases.
    • URI Octogone-Lordat, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès with  C. Soum (MCF), B. Köpke (PR) and J.-L. Nespoulous (PR émérite).
    • UMR 1214 Inserm ToNIC and CHU de Toulouse with Pr. Y. Chaix (PU-PH), Pr. J. Pariente (MCU-PH), Dr. P. Péran (CR1), C. Bezy (orthophoniste), Dr. Jean-Michel Albaret (MCF) and Dr. Jessica Tallet (MCF).
    • CerCo laboratory (Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition, UMR CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier) with Emmanuel Barbeau (DR) et Thomas Busigny (postdoc).
    • Université Aix-Marseille - laboratoires LPL, PsyCLE, LNC - with Marianne Jover, Stéphanie Ducrot, Stéphanie Bellocchi, Christine Assaiante, Jean-Luc Velay within DYSTAC-MAP project.


    Additional information

    Articles in peer-reviewed journals (from 2019)
    1. Siguier P., Planton M., Baudou E., Chaix Y., Delage A., Rafiq M., Wolfrum M., Gérard F., Jucla M.*, Pariente J.* (in press). Can neurodevelopmental disorders influence the course of neurodegenerative diseases? A scoping review. Ageing Research Reviews. (*equal contribution)
    2. Pistono, A., Maziero, S., Chaix, Y., & Jucla, M. (2023). Speech disfluencies in children with developmental dyslexia: how do they differ from typical development? International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12978
    3. Maziero, S., Jucla, M., Blais, M., Albaret, J. M., Tallet, J., & Chaix, Y. (2023). A preliminary study of the different memory systems in neurofibromatosis type 1: What is impaired and what is spared?. Brain and Development, 45(4), 220-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.braindev.2022.12.002
    4. Pistono, A., Pariente, J., & Jucla, M. (2022). Disfluency patterns in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1‑14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2022.2112085
    5. Rafiq, M., Jucla, M., Guerrier, L., Péran, P., Pariente, J., & Pistono, A. (2022). The functional connectivity of language network across the life span: Disentangling the effects of typical aging from Alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14, 1-12. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.959405
    6. Vernet, M., Jover, M., Bellocchi, S., Maziero, S., Jucla, M., Tallet, J., … Ducrot, S. (2022). Visual-processing deficits in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: A clinical marker of reading difficulties: Vision and reading in NF1 children. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 38, 25-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpn.2022.03.009
    7. Pistono, A., Guerrier, L., Péran, P., Rafiq, M., Giméno, M., Bézy, C., … Jucla, M. (2021). Increased functional connectivity supports language performance in healthy aging despite gray matter loss. Neurobiology of Aging, 98, 52-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.09.015
    8. Pistono, A., Senoussi, M., Guerrier, L., Rafiq, M., Giméno, M., Péran, P., Jucla, M., & Pariente, J. (2021). Language Network Connectivity Increases in Early Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 82(1), 447-460. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-201584
    9. Bellocchi, S., Ducrot, S., Tallet, J., Jucla, M., & Jover, M. (2021). Effect of comorbid developmental dyslexia on oculomotor behavior in children with developmental coordination disorder: A study with the Developmental Eye Movement test. Human Movement Science, 76, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102764
    10. Blais, M., Jucla, M., Maziero, S., Albaret, J. M., Chaix, Y., & Tallet, J. (2021). The Differential Effects of Auditory and Visual Stimuli on Learning, Retention and Reactivation of a Perceptual-Motor Temporal Sequence in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.616795
    11. Blais, M., Jucla, M., Maziero, S., Albaret, J. M., Chaix, Y., & Tallet, J. (2021). Specific Cues Can Improve Procedural Learning and Retention in Developmental Coordination Disorder and/or Developmental Dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.744562
    12. Lê, M., Blais, M., Jucla, M., Chauveau, N., Maziero, S., Biotteau, M., … Tallet, J. (2021). Procedural learning and retention of audio-verbal temporal sequence is altered in children with developmental coordination disorder but cortical thickness matters. Developmental Science, 24(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13009
    13. Maziero, S., Tallet, J., Bellocchi, S., Jover, M., Chaix, Y., & Jucla, M. (2020). Influence of comorbidity on working memory profile in dyslexia and developmental coordination disorder. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 42(7), 660-674.
    14. Pistono, A., Pariente, J., Bézy, C., Lemesle, B., Le Men, J., & Jucla, M. (2019). What happens when nothing happens? An investigation of pauses as a compensatory mechanism in early Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychologia, 124, 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.12.018
    15. Pistono, A., Jucla, M., Bézy, C., Lemesle, B., Le Men, J., & Pariente, J. (2019). Discourse macrolinguistic impairment as a marker of linguistic and extralinguistic functions decline in early Alzheimer’s disease. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 54(3), 390-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12444
    16. Pistono, A., Busigny, T., Jucla, M., Cabirol, A., Dinnat, A.-L., Pariente, J., & Barbeau, E. J. (2019). An Analysis of Famous Person Semantic Memory in Aging. Experimental Aging Research, 45(1), 74-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2018.1560118