Current research interests

Speech communication in Parkinson's disease, link between rhythm and langauge processing, neurolinguistics

EntrainPark project

ANR

Publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings

  • Fumel, J., Bahuaud, D., Weed, E., Fusaroli, R., & Basirat, A. (accepted). Impact of Parkinson’s disease on acoustic measures of linguistic prosody: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
  • Petitpain, A., Brabant-Thery, J., Patin, C., Ott, L., & Basirat, A. (2024). Status of prosody in the practices of speech-language pathologists in France: A survey on theoretical and clinical dimensions. Journal of Communication Disorders, 107, 106404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2023.106404
  • Contreras Roa, L., Mairano, P. Moreau, C., & Basirat, A. (2023). A Bimodal Approach to Study the Effects of Rhythmic Priming. In 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) Proceedings, (pp. 3922–3926), Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Vincent, M. A., Vanstavel, S., Patin, C., Mejias, S., & Basirat, A. (2022). Brain responses to lexical attestedness and phonological well-formedness as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation. Brain and Language, 232, 105150. https ://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105150
  • Contreras Roa, L., Mairano, P. Moreau, C., & Basirat, A. (2022). Impact de l'amorçage rythmique sur la production de la parole chez des personnes atteintes de la maladie de Parkinson : Étude pilote. In Actes des Journées d’Études sur la Parole, 615–624, Nantes, France.
  • Casso, I., Rouillard, J., Si Mohammed, H., Betrouni, N., Cabestaing, F., & Basirat, A. (2022). Preliminary study for intonation classification of imagined speech for brain-computer interface applications. In Proceedings of European Conference on Signal Processing, 1238–1242, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Tremblay, P., Basirat, A., Pinto, S. & Sato, M. (2021). Visual Prediction cues can facilitate behavioural and neural speech processing in young and older adults. Neuropsychologia. 159, 107949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107949
  • Basirat, A., Moreau, C., & Knutsen, D. (2021). Parkinson’s disease impacts feedback production during verbal communication. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 56(4), 826-840. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12630
  • Basirat, A., Patin, C., & Jozefowiez, J. (2021). Sonority projection effect in French: A signal detection theory approach. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 66(22), 25-266. https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2021.5
  • Basirat, A., Schwartz, J.-L., & Moreau, C. (2021). Word segmentation based on prosody in Parkinson’s disease. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 35(6), 534-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1797174
  • Basirat, A., & Hupé, J.-M. (2020). Synesthesia in children with difficulties in written language learning. Consciousness and Cognition, 82, 102951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102951
    Dataset on Zenodo: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3820158
  • Dussard, C., Basirat, A., Betrouni, N., Moreau, C., Devos, D., Cabestaing, F., & Rouillard, J. (2020). Preliminary Study of the Perception of Emotions Expressed by Virtual Agents in the context of Parkinson’s disease. In Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH)-ICMI 2020.
  • Pinto, S., Tremblay, P., Basirat, A., & Sato, M. (2019). The impact of when, what and how predictions on auditory speech perception. Experimental Brain Research, 237(12), 3143-3153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-019-05661-5
  • Basirat, A., Allart, É., Brunellière, A., & Martin, Y. (2019). Audiovisual speech segmentation in post-stroke aphasia: a pilot study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 26(8), 588-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749357.2019.1643566
  • Basirat, A., Brunellière, A., & Hartsuiker, R. (2018). The role of audiovisual speech in the early stages of lexical processing as revealed by the ERP word repetition effect. Language Learning, 68, 80-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12265
  • Basirat, A., Patin, C., & Moreau, C. (2018). Relationship between perception and production of intonation of French in Parkinson’s disease. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 (pp. 809-813). https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-163
  • Basirat, A. (2017). Word segmentation in phonemically identical and prosodically different sequences using cochlear implants: A case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 31(6), 478‑485. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2017.1283708
  • Kösem, A., Basirat, A., Azizi, L., & van Wassenhove, V. (2016). High frequency neural activity predicts word parsing in ambiguous speech streams. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116(6), 2497-2512. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00074.2016
  • Basirat, A., Dehaene, S., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2014). A hierarchy of cortical responses to sequence violations in three-month-old infants. Cognition, 132(2): 137-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.013
  • Basirat, A., Schwartz, J.-L., & Sato, M. (2012). Perceptuo-motor interactions in the perceptual organization of speech: Evidence from the verbal transformation effect. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B, 367(1591): 965–976. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0374
  • Schwartz, J.-L., Basirat, A., Ménard, L., & Sato, M. (2012). The Perception for Action Control Theory (PACT): a perceptuo-motor theory of speech perception. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 25(5): 336–354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.12.004
  • Sato, M., Grabski, K., Glenberg, A., Brisebois, A., Basirat, A., Ménard, L., & Cattaneo, L. (2011). Articulatory bias in speech categorization: evidence from use-induced motor plasticity. Cortex, 47(8): 1001-1003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.03.009
  • Basirat, A., & Schwartz, J.-L. (2010). Éléments de modélisation de l’effet de transformation verbale. In Actes des Journées d’Études sur la Parole, 153-156.
  • Basirat, A., Sato, M., Schwartz, J.-L., Kahane, P., & Lachaux, J.-P. (2008). Parieto-frontal gamma band activity during the perceptual emergence of speech forms. NeuroImage, 42(1): 404-413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.03.063
  • Basirat, A., Sato, M., Schwartz, J.-L., Kahane, P., & Lachaux, J.-P. (2008). Un circuit pariéto-frontal des bascules perceptives en parole : une étude IEEG. In Actes des Journées d’Études sur la Parole, 1-4.
  • Sato, M., Basirat, A., & Schwartz, J.-L. (2007). Visual contribution to the perception of multistable speech forms. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 69(8): 1360-1372. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03192952