Research group members
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Institute of Phonetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Nikola is the head of LemonLab, which was founded as part of her JUNIOR STAR grant project on The effect of bilingualism on speech perception and production in the first year of life.
She gained her degrees at Sorbonne University in Paris. Her primary area of research is in phonetics, specifically in phonetic acquisition in adults and most notably in children. She is interested in early speech discrimination abilities, that is how infants discriminate speech sounds and tell apart languages as well as in early language productions (i.e. babbling). She also challenges concepts & theories in L1 development such as „universal listener“ and „rhythmic hypothesis“.
She is also interested in language screening and was the head of the team adapting (and re-adapting) the MB-CDI instruments into Czech as Dovyko I and Dovyko II. She has also been exploring the processing of emotion words using neuro-imaging and behavioral methods.
More concise CV at: https://psu.cas.cz/en/people/cv/paillereau/index.html
Mgr. Tereza Pavlíková (Sloupová)
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Department of Linguistics and Institute of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Tereza has a Master’s degree in General linguistic and English translation at Charles University. Her interest lies in psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, as well as their possible intersections with translation science, and bilingualism. She was part of the Dovyko project, adapting the MB-CDIs into Czech.
Her master’s thesis focuses on the influence of language perception and production on the conceptualization of motion events. She is planning to extend this topic in her future doctoral studies, additionally exploring these effects in interpreters.
Bc. Barbora Dvořáková
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Pedagogy, Charles University
Barbora is continuing her studies of psychology in a master’s degree. She was part of the Dovyko project, adapting the MB-CDIs into Czech, and is also collaborating on projects and experiments about the processing of emotion words. She has experience with both behavioral and neuroimaging methods.
In her bachelor’s thesis, she focused on the relationship between empathy and professional quality of life in clinical psychologists, and apart from research, she works in and plans to further pursue clinical psychology herself.
Dr. Ivana Kvapilíková
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
Ivana is a researcher in the field of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. She recently earned her PhD at Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and she is now a part of the LemonLab research group at the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She works on a project related to speech development in bilingual infants where she is mainly responsible for the technical part of the neuroimaging experiments. She is passionate about studying the dynamics of language acquisition, spanning both human cognition and the evolving capacities of AI agents.
Tereza Fialová
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Tereza is a psychology student at Charles University with solid experience with different behavioral and neuro-imaging methods. She was part of the Dovyko project, in which she tested around two hundred infants with an eye-tracker. She has currently started collecting and analyzing fNIRS data for the LemonLab emotion-words project.
She is personally interested in visual attention, processing, and memory.
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Lukáš manages the experimental setup, as well as programs the fNIRS and EEG experiments. His background lies in psychology and neuroscience. He gained his degrees at Charles University and was a visiting scholar the University of California in Davis.
He is primarily interested in empirical research of virtual reality and spatial navigation and in data science, and he has extensive experience with eye-tracking experiments.
More concise CV at: https://psu.cas.cz/en/people/cv/hejtmanek/index.html
Mgr. Barbora Čihařová
Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Barbora is a Ph.D. candidate in General anthropology, with a master’s degree in Theoretical-Research psychology at Charles University.
She is most interested in qualitative psychological research.
Bc. Sára Mádrová
University of New York in Prague; with BSc from Empire State University
Sára is a psychology student at UNYP, where she previously obtained her dual degree in Psychology and Human Development. She is currently assisting with projects at the Czech Academy of Sciences and University Hospital Královské Vinohrady. She also volunteers for People in Need as a tutor for children needing assistance with their schoolwork.
Associate members and mentors:
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Filip is a senior researcher at the Prague branch of the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where he works primarily using experimental methods (preferential looking, eye-tracking) as well as language sample analyses.
He is mainly interested in topics related to language and language acquisition, such as early knowledge and comprehension of grammatical case, gender, and number, their morphological marking, and their interaction with word order, or relations between social understanding, false belief, and person reference in language (pronouns, person inflections).
Filip has previously been involved with projects related to the development of assessment tools, such as DOVYKO. In his work, Filip has examined word acquisition, language impairment, and variables impacting the acquisition of lexicon or the use of words in syntactic structures.
More concise CV at: https://psu.cas.cz/en/people/cv/smolik/index.html
Dr. Torsten Wüstenberg
Core Facility for Neuroscience of Self-Regulation (CNSR), University of Heidelberg
Torsten has been co-operating with LemonLab on projects concerning the processing of emotional words and continues to offer his expertise on neuroimaging methods in the current project on bilingual infants.
Torsten has worked on projects investigating social exclusion experiences and the methodology of cognitive neuroscience, particularly MRI, EEG, fNIRS. At the CNSR, his resposibilities lie in the scientific consulting in the development of experimental designs as well as data acquisition and analysis and the set-up, development and maintenance of the laboratory infrastructure (neurophysiological data acquisition, data management and security, laboratory equipment).
More information here: https://www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/person/torsten-wuestenberg
Prof. Sophie Kern
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université Lyon 2
Sophie is a developmental psycholinguist, who has been in long-term collaboration with LemonLab’s Nikola Paillereau. She, among other topics, extensively publishes on infants’ babbling, and will be supervising the production experiments in the current project on bilingual infants.
Dr. Wüstenberg and Prof. Kern are members of the International advisory board for LemonLab’s project on The effect of bilingualism on speech perception and production in the first year of life.
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague
Iva is the head of the Prague branch of the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, under which LemonLab belongs. Iva has plenty of excellent ideas and her main strenghts include creativity.
Iva has previously been involved in projects examining sex differences in emotional habituation, Positive Youth Development (PYD) Across Cultures Study, and most recently, Midlife experience: transistions, crises, and grow. Her main research interests include affective sciences, emotion and emotion regulation, cross-cultural psychology and qualitative research.
More concise CV at: https://psu.cas.cz/en/people/cv/polackova-solcova/index.html
Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Sorbonne Université
Naomi is an associate professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She is a specialist in phonological acquisition in monolingual and bilingual children from the babbling period to the age of 6 years. She is also interested in interfaces between phonology and phonetics, lexicon and pragmatics in language acquisition, and has also worked on the loss and delay of phonology in clinical speech (aphasia, deaf children).