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Pascale Tremblay , Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral

Pascale Tremblay received her B.A. in Linguistics and Psychology from Laval University in 2002 (Québec, Canada) and her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from McGill University (Montréal, Canada) in 2008. Her current research focuses on the application of modern neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI, EEG and TMS to address issues related to the production and perception of language in the healthy brain. In particular, she is interested in understanding the manner in which an intention to speak is transformed into meaningful and well-articulated language. To this aim, she has been examining mechanisms such as response selection, response sequencing, and forward modeling. Current research focuses on the manner in which basic cognitive, perceptual and motor operations interact to produce, perceive and comprehend meaningful sentences.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Tremblay P., & Gracco VL. (In press) Contribution of the pre-SMA to the production of words and non-speech oral motor gestures, as revealed by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Brain Research.

Tremblay P., & Gracco VL. (In press) On the selection of words and oral motor responses: evidence of a response-independent fronto-parietal network. Cortex.

Gracco VL, Tremblay P., & Pike B. (submitted) Basal ganglia and corticostriatal contributions to speech sequencing. NeuroImage.

Tremblay P., & Gracco VL. (In preparation) On the neural organization of verbal response selection and response conflictin the medial frontal cortex: fMRI evidence for a functional dissociation..

Tremblay P., P. Deschamps, I., & McFarland, DH. (Submitted) Récentes avancées en imagerie cérébrale et leurs implications pour la recherche et l’intervention en orthophonie. Spectrum.

Tremblay P., Shiller, D., & Gracco VL (2008) On the time-course and frequency selectivity of the EEG for different modes of response selection: evidence from speech production and keyboard pressing. J Clin Neurophysiol. 119(1): 88-99.

McFarland DH, & Tremblay P. (2007) Implications cliniques des interactions entre les systèmes ensorimoteurs: Parole et déglutition. Fréquences, 18 (3), 12-16.

Tremblay P., & Gracco VL. (2006) Contribution of the frontal lobe to externally and internally specified verbal responses: fMRI evidence. Neuroimage. 33(3): 947-57.

McFarland DH, & Tremblay P. (2006) Clinical implications of cross-system interactions. Semin Speech Lang. 27(4): 300-9. Review.

Gracco VL, Tremblay P., & Pike B. (2005) Imaging speech production using fMRI. Neuroimage. 15; 26(1): 294-301.