On December 5, 2024 , the CERVO Research Center held its annual Scientific Day at Espace Saint-Grégoire. This event offered a unique opportunity for students to connect with passionate neuroscience researchers while discovering the center’s latest scientific advancements. The program featured several engaging talks delivered by members of the center, highlighting a wide range of innovative topics. In addition, the winners of the poster presentation competition—held at the CERVO Research Center in November—had the honor of presenting their work to an engaged and enthusiastic audience.

Three members of the lab, Roxane, David, and Amélie, took part in the event by presenting posters on their respective projects. Here, we highlight their work as well as the experience they had during this memorable day.

Roxane gave an oral presentation following an award she received during the November 26-27 poster competition, in the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience division (Master’s/Bachelor’s category). She shared her impressions with us following the event (Figure 1).

Figure 2 shows a photo taken during her oral presentation at the Scientific Day, and Figure 3 displays the poster that earned her an award in the November competition.

Figure 1. Roxane reflects on her experience at CERVO’s Scientific Day
Figure 2. Roxane’s oral presentation at CERVO’s Scientific Day
Figure 3. Roxane’s award-winning poster from the November competition

David presented the results of his systematic literature review on Neural Speech Tracking, a technique based on electroencephalography (EEG) that analyzes a person’s brain activity while listening to sentences or continuous speech. The goal of this review is to explore how Neural Speech Tracking can enhance our understanding of the underlying causes of speech-in-noise perception difficulties, particularly in the context of aging. It examines how this technique contributes to the field of hearing loss, the impact of different levels of competing background noises, and the relationship between neural measures and behavioral performance, offering a synthesis of current scientific knowledge.

David’s poster presented at CERVO’s Scientific Day is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4. Poster created by David and presented at CERVO’s Scientific Day

Amélie, whose research interests focus on the neural basis of age-related changes in vocal motor control in singers and non-singers, also took part in CERVO’s Scientific Day by presenting a poster (Figure 6). She shared her experience of the day with us (Figure 5).

Figure 5. Amélie reflects on her experience at CERVO’s Scientific Day
Figure 6. Poster created by Amélie and presented at CERVO’s Scientific Day

Congratulations to all three of you for your participation, and thank you for your contribution to a day filled with meaningful exchanges, shared insights and discoveries!

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