In 2024, our team achieved an incredible amount of work: we published several scientific articles, gave conferences, collected data intensively, worked to mobilize knowledge from our projects, and carried out editorial and academic work… 💼🧠 Each project and idea brought us closer to our goal: advancing knowledge in cognitive neuroscience of language and neurocognitive aging. This year was not without its challenges: methodological obstacles, tight deadlines, and unexpected incidents punctuated our journey. But every challenge we overcame strengthened our determination and enriched our learning. 💪🎯As we step into this new year, we take a moment to celebrate our key achievements. 🎯✨

Here they are:

• We published 10 articles in international scientific journals and one book chapter, and we currently have 3 articles and one chapter under review.
• Most of the published articles are accompanied by the publication of the associated dataset, embracing the spirit of open science. Check out our datasets on Borealis by clicking here.
• We are working on 3 other articles, which will be submitted to scientific journals at the beginning of 2025.
• Valérie successfully defended her PhD thesis in Rehabilitation Sciences in May. Congratulations, Valérie!
• Alexandre and David successfully fast-tracked to a PhD program from a master’s degree. Well done to both of you!
• Alexandre passed his doctoral examination in December with flying colors. Congratulations, Alexandre!
• Xiyue is intensively writing her thesis, which she will submit at the beginning of 2025.
• Lab students received 5 competitive scholarships from CIHR (Alexandre), FRQNT (Alexandre), FRQS (David), CIRRIS (Amélie), and Université Laval (Kellyane).
• Pascale submitted a grant application to the Grammy Foundation, with another one in preparation.
• Pascale gave 8 invited talks in Helsinki, Montreal, Trois-Rivières, and Quebec City at scientific events as well as events for knowledge users (speech-language pathologists and audiologists).
• Lab students delivered 8 poster presentations and one oral presentation at scientific events.
• We welcomed 11 new members:

      – Jessica, as a winter research intern;

      – Évelyne, as a research assistant;

      – Kellyane and Marion, as summer research interns;

      – Roxane, who began a master’s in neuroscience in the fall;

      – Amélie, who began a master’s in rehabilitation sciences in the fall;

      – Angéline and Megan, research interns in the fall;

      – Marc-Antoine, Hélène, and Marika, as research assistants in the fall.

• We completed data collection for the EEG-TMS project (ElectroStim, funded by NSERC) led by Pascale! A total of 28 participants were recruited, with 25 completing all stages, representing 80 sessions of 3-hour TMS and EEG recordings! Pascale will begin data analysis in January.
• Data analysis is underway for 7 projects.
• We continued data collection for our large NeuroSPiN project, funded by CIHR.
• We launched a new project on speech production and aging, in collaboration with Professor Édith Durand from UQTR. More updates coming soon!
• Overall, we welcomed 146 unique participants to our lab, for a total of 324 sessions (most participants visited the lab more than once, and some participated in more than one project):

     – 131 participants completed one or more of the three visits planned for the NeuroSPiN project: 131 Visit 1s (cognitive assessment), 72 Visit 2s (EEG), and 61 Visit 3s (MRI) (264 sessions in total);

        – 15 participants completed one or more visits for the ElectroStim project (56 sessions in total);

        – 4 participants took part in our new project on speech production and aging (1 session per participant).

• A new project, MELODIC, is under development and will begin in summer 2025. More updates soon!