Welcome

I am a CNRS senior research scientist at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

My research bears on language acquisition by children and its disorders (developmental dyslexia, specific language impairment, autism).

To learn more, click on the links in the right pane or on the tabs above. Pages in English are aimed to other scientists, while pages in French are for the general public and professionnals.

Postdoc position in neuroanatomical MRI of developmental dyslexia.

Pour les pages en français, cliquez sur le drapeau correspondant.

Selected publications

Latest paper:

Lehongre, K., Ramus, F., Villiermet, N., Schwartz, D., & Giraud, A. L. (2011). Altered low-gamma sampling in auditory cortex accounts for the three main facets of dyslexia. Neuron, 72(6), 1080-1090. preprint (press release)

If you read just a few of my papers, read those:

White, S., Frith, U., Milne, E., Rosen, S., Swettenham, J., & Ramus, F. (2006). A double dissociation between sensorimotor impairments and reading disability: A comparison of autistic and dyslexic children.  Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(5), 748-761. reprint

Ramus, F. (Ed.). (2006). Genes, Brain and Cognition. Cognition Special Issue (Vol. 101). Amsterdam: Elsevier. reprint

Ramus, F., Rosen, S., Dakin, S. C., Day, B. L., Castellote, J. M., White, S., & Frith, U. (2003). Theories of developmental dyslexia: Insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults. Brain, 126, 841-865. reprint (supplementary material)

Ramus, F., Nespor, M., & Mehler, J. (1999). Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal. Cognition, 73(3), 265-292. reprint

Complete list of publications.