{"id":13624,"date":"2026-02-17T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/?p=13624"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:15:56","slug":"2025-recap-%f0%9f%8c%9f%f0%9f%8c%9f%f0%9f%8c%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/2025-recap-%f0%9f%8c%9f%f0%9f%8c%9f%f0%9f%8c%9f\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Recap \ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13624\" class=\"elementor elementor-13624\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bbd2a93 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bbd2a93\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-10401e2\" data-id=\"10401e2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f76894 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f76894\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><p><strong>\u00a0What a year! In 2025, our laboratory published 7 scientific papers, welcomed 16 new members, and collected data from 149 different individuals. All of this took place within the ever-dynamic context of a university laboratory, with its constant arrivals and departures, teaching responsibilities, and the ongoing race for research funding. <\/strong>\ud83d\udcbc\ud83e\udde0 <strong>Our mission? To advance knowledge about the brain, aging, and language. At the start of this new year, let\u2019s take a moment to celebrate what we accomplished in 2025.\u00a0\ud83c\udfaf\u2728<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04b5209 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"04b5209\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-13627\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-540x304.png 540w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-860x484.png 860w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation-1170x658.png 1170w, https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Bilan-2025-Presentation.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aeb325e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aeb325e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>We published 7 papers in international scientific journals, as well as one book chapter. One article is currently under review, and we are currently working on 8 additional articles that will be submitted to scientific journals in 2026.<\/li><li>Most of the articles we published are accompanied by the release of the associated dataset, in the spirit of open science. You can consult our data on the Bor\u00e9alis platform by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/borealisdata.ca\/dataverse\/pascale_tremblay\/?q=pascale+tremblay\">here<\/a>.<\/li><li>Xiyue successfully defended her doctoral thesis in neuroscience in June. Congratulations, Xiyue!!<\/li><li>David and Sarah-\u00c8ve successfully passed their doctoral exam in April and December, respectively. Congratulations to both!<\/li><li>The laboratory\u2019s students received 7 competitive scholarships from CIHR (Am\u00e9lie), FRQS (Am\u00e9lie), the Research Chair on Aging (Roxane), NeuroQu\u00e9bec (Marc-Andr\u00e9), CRBLM (Ma\u00e9lie), and Universit\u00e9 Laval (Marc-Andr\u00e9). Marc-Andr\u00e9 was also a finalist for the prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholarship.<\/li><li>Pascale obtained a grant from the Grammy Foundation and one from the Singwell group and submitted a grant application to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).<\/li><li>We delivered 17 scientific presentations: the lab\u2019s students gave 8 poster presentations (Alexandre, Marc-Andr\u00e9, Ma\u00e9lie, Am\u00e9lie, and Kellyane) and 6 oral presentations (David, Am\u00e9lie, Marc-Andr\u00e9, and Ma\u00e9lie), and Pascale gave 3 invited talks.<\/li><li>We welcomed 16 new members:<br \/><ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li><strong>Ma\u00e9lie<\/strong> and <strong>Kellyane<\/strong>, winter interns;<\/li><li><strong>Charlie<\/strong>, research assistant in the winter;<\/li><li><strong>Ma\u00e9lie<\/strong>, returning as a Master\u2019s student in Rehabilitation Science starting in the summer;<\/li><li><strong>Shani-Li<\/strong>, summer intern, then research assistant in the fall;<\/li><li><strong>Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne<\/strong>, research assistant since the summer;<\/li><li><strong>Marianne<\/strong> and <strong>B\u00e9linda<\/strong>, fall interns;<\/li><li><strong>Marc-Andr\u00e9<\/strong>, who began a PhD in Rehabilitation Science in the fall;<\/li><li><strong>Ariane, Jade, \u00c9lodie, Lisa, Sarah, and Am\u00e9lie<\/strong>, Master\u2019s students in Speech-Language Pathology under Pascale\u2019s supervision;<\/li><li><strong>Val\u00e9rie<\/strong> returned as a research associate starting in the fall.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>We continued data collection for our major NeuroSPiN project, funded by CIHR.<\/li><li>We launched the first phase of our new MELODIC project and completed the 30 group activity sessions with an incredible 0% attrition rate!!!!! Thank you to Alexandre, Ma\u00e9lie, and the entire project team.<\/li><li>We completed data collection for a project on speech production in aging (the Repetition project), in collaboration with a professor from UQTR, \u00c9dith Durand.<\/li><li>Data analyses are currently underway in 8 projects: <strong>NeuroSPiN<\/strong> (David, Sarah-\u00c8ve, Val\u00e9rie, Lisa, Sarah, and Am\u00e9lie), <strong>EEG-TMS<\/strong> (Pascale), <strong>PICCOLO<\/strong> (Alexandre),<strong> Chorale-Drummond<\/strong> (Am\u00e9lie), database study (Roxane), <strong>Aging of Speech Production<\/strong> (Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, Nathan, Pascale), <strong>MELODIC<\/strong> (Ma\u00e9lie, Alexandre, Ariane, Jade, \u00c9lodie, Shani-Li), and <strong>Repetition<\/strong> (Marc-Andr\u00e9, \u00c9dith, Pascale).<\/li><li>In total, we welcomed 149 different participants to the lab, for a total of <strong>470<\/strong> data collection sessions (including one crazy day in October during which 11 MRI sessions were conducted, along with one phone interview and one in-lab data collection session!).<\/li><li>Most participants came to the lab more than once during a project, and some took part in more than one project. In total:<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>68 individuals participated in the NeuroSPiN project. This represents 41 cognitive assessments, 38 communication + EEG assessments, and 49 MRI sessions. Grand total of<strong> 128<\/strong> data collection sessions for this project in 2025!<\/li><li>44 individuals participated in the Repetition project on speech production in aging (1 session per participant, including a cognitive assessment, a communication assessment, and one MRI session).<\/li><li>38 individuals participated in the MELODIC project, totaling 103 MRI sessions, 101 in-lab data collection sessions (cognition and EEG), and 94 phone interviews assessing psychosocial quality of life. Grand total of sessions for this project in 2025: <strong>298!<\/strong> In addition to these sessions, we organized 30 group activity sessions lasting 2.5 hours each.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>We published 22 original blog posts; several lab members contributed to this knowledge mobilization effort (Pascale, Alexandre, Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, Charlie, Val\u00e9rie, Ma\u00e9lie, Xiyue, and M\u00e9lissa). Our blog posts are available in both French and English.<\/li><li>We were pleased to welcome 41 new followers to our Facebook page, increasing from 1,485 to 1,526! Thank you all for your interest in the lab!<\/li><li>Peer review work is essential to academic research, and Pascale devoted significant energy to it in 2025. As Associate Editor of the <em>Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience<\/em> (MIT Press), she handled around thirty manuscripts. The biggest challenge? Finding reviewers! She also chaired the FRQS Junior 1 Research Scholars committee and served on several other committees: NSERC (OIR), CEPITO (the interdisciplinary committee of the Three Councils), CFI, and the Scientific Committee of the Drummond Foundation.<\/li><li>Pascale completed her role as Director of the Graduate Research Program at the School of Rehabilitation after four very full years. She continues her involvement as co-lead of the \u201cLinguistic and Musical Plasticity\u201d axis within the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM).<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7655b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c7655b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>A huge thank you to everyone who made these achievements possible! \ud83d\ude4f<\/strong><\/p><p>We would like to warmly thank all lab members for their rigorous work throughout the year. A special thank you as well to our participants, our research collaborators (in particular Maude Desjardins, Carol Hudon, Isabelle Peretz, Frank Russo, Jo\u00ebl Macoir, Brad Postle, Anthony Dick, \u00c9dith Durand, Monika Molnar, Andr\u00e9anne Sharp, Pascale B\u00e9dard, and Alexis Pi\u00e9plu), the team at the CERVO MRI Center \ud83e\udde0 (C\u00e9line Leclerc, Director, and Daphn\u00e9e Lesage, technologist), the staff of the CERVO Research Center and Universit\u00e9 Laval \ud83c\udfeb, and all the other people who supported us in our projects. Your support and involvement truly make all the difference. Thank you! \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-72b111d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"72b111d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5317a2e\" data-id=\"5317a2e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ec38c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ec38c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Suggested readings:<\/strong><\/p><div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/2024-recap-a-year-full-of-achievements-%f0%9f%8c%9f\/\">2024 Recap: A Year Full of Achievements! \ud83c\udf1f<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/2023-in-review\/\">2023 in review<\/a><\/li><li><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/bilan-de-lannee-2022-2\/\">Review of the year 2022<\/a><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/bilan-2021\/\">2021: a summary<\/a><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/cervo-scientific-day-2025\/\">CERVO Scientific Day 2025<\/a><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/new-scientific-article-on-verbal-fluency-in-healthy-aging\/\">New Scientific Article on Verbal Fluency in Healthy Aging<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/piccolo-projects-in-picture-part-five-sub-cortical-attention-network\/\">PICCOLO projects in picture. Part five : sub-cortical attention network<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/introducing-the-melodic-project\/\">Introducing MELODIC !<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/marc-andre-at-the-crblm\/\">Marc-Andr\u00e9 at the CRBLM<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/priming-a-window-into-the-organization-of-our-brain\/\">Priming: A Window into the Organization of Our Brain!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/back-to-school-2025-at-the-lab\/\">Back to school 2025 at the Lab!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/piccolo-project-in-pictures-part-four-impacts-on-brain-networks\/\">PICCOLO Project in Pictures. Part Four: Impacts on Brain Networks<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/piccolo-project-in-pictures-part-three-impacts-on-the-attention-network\/\">PICCOLO Project in Pictures. Part Three: Impacts on the Attention Network<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/new-scientific-article-on-the-links-between-musical-activity-practice-and-executive-functions\/\">New Scientific Article on the Links Between Musical Activity Practice and Executive Functions<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/effect-of-non-invasive-brain-stimulation-on-speech-perception-in-noise-in-adults\/\">Effect of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation on Speech Perception in Noise in Adults<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/new-scientific-article-on-brain-mechanisms-affecting-speech-production-in-aging\/\">New Scientific Article on Brain Mechanisms Affecting Speech Production in Aging<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/combining-mri-and-eeg-with-brain-stimulation-an-ambitious-project\/\">Combining MRI and EEG with brain stimulation: An ambitious project!<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/cliches-sur-le-vif-lors-des-tests-eeg-2\/\">Snapshots during EEG tests<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/cihr-grant\/\">CIHR grant<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/thesis-presentation-of-valerie\/\">Thesis presentation of Val\u00e9rie<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/new-scientific-article-about-the-history-of-the-neurobiology-of-speech-and-language\/\">New scientific article about the history of the neurobiology of speech and language<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/pascale-titulaire-dune-chaire-de-recherche-du-canada-%f0%9f%87%a8%f0%9f%87%a6\/\">Pascale holder of a Canada Research Chair\u00a0\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/subvention-du-crsh\/\">SSHRC Grant<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/projet-neurospin-debut-de-la-collecte-de-donnees\/\">NeuroSPiN Project\u2014Start of Data Collection<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf89 Looking back on a busy year! \ud83c\udf93\ud83d\udcca<br \/>\nEach year is a unique adventure, filled with ideas, discovery, learning, and deadlines. 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