Publications

Main research articles

Marshall, C. R., Ramus, F., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (submitted). Do children with SLI and/or dyslexia compensate for place assimilation? Insight into phonological grammar and representations.

Joly, O., Ramus, F., Pressnitzer, D., Pallier, C., Vanduffel, W., & Orban, G. A. (submitted). Interhemispheric differences in early auditory processing revealed by fMRI in awake rhesus monkeys.

Marshall, C. R., Ramus, F., Rosen, S., & Van der Lely, H. K. J. (submitted). Phonology and morphosyntax in SLI: Evidence from children with SLI, dyslexia and SLI+dyslexia.

Szenkovits, G., Darma, Q., Darcy, I., & Ramus, F. (submitted). Exploring dyslexics' phonological deficit II: phonological grammar.preprint

Forgeot d'Arc, B., & Ramus, F. (in press). Belief attribution despite verbal interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Soroli, E., Szenkovits, G., & Ramus, F. (in press). Exploring dyslexics' phonological deficit III: Foreign speech perception and production. Dyslexia.
preprint

Minagawa-Kawai, Y., van der Lely, H. K. J., Ramus, F., Sato, Y., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (in press). Optical brain imaging reveals auditory general and language specific processing in early infant development. Cerebral Cortex.preprint

Ramus, F., Peperkamp, S., Christophe, A., Jacquemot, C., Kouider, S., & Dupoux, E. (2010). A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of phonology. In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. d'Imperio & N. Vallée (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Phonetic Detail and Phonological Representation (pp. 311-340). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.preprint

Darcy, I., Ramus, F., Christophe, A., Kinzler, K., & Dupoux, E. (2009). Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native assimilation. In F. Kügler, C. Féry & R. van de Vijver (Eds.), Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 265-309). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.preprint

Marshall, C. R., Harcourt-Brown, S., Ramus, F., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009). The link between prosody and language skills in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and/or dyslexia. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44(4), 466-488.preprint 

Järvinen-Pasley, A., Wallace, G. L., Ramus, F., Happé, F., & Heaton, P. (2008). Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism. Developmental Science, 11(1), 109-121. reprint

Ramus, F., & Szenkovits, G. (2008). What phonological deficit? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 129-141. reprint
Reprinted as: Ramus, F., & Szenkovits, G. (2008). What phonological deficit? In D. V. M. Bishop, M. J. Snowling & S.-J. Blakemore (Eds.), Neurocognitive approaches to developmental disorders: A festschrift for Uta Frith (pp. 129-141). Hove: Psychology Press.

Galaburda, A. M., LoTurco, J., Ramus, F., Fitch, R. H., & Rosen, G. D. (2006). From genes to behavior in developmental dyslexia. Nature Neuroscience, 9(10), 1213-1217. reprint (Spanish translation)

Ramus, F. (2006). Genes, brain, and cognition: A roadmap for the cognitive scientist. Cognition, 101(2), 247-269. reprint (Introduction to a Cognition Special Issue)

Milne, E., White, S., Campbell, R., Swettenham, J., Hansen, P. C., & Ramus, F. (2006). Motion and form coherence detection in autistic spectrum disorder: Relationship to motor control and 2:4 digit ratio. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(2), 225-237. reprint

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

White, S., Milne, E., Rosen, S., Hansen, P. C., Swettenham, J., Frith, U., & Ramus, F. (2006). The role of sensorimotor impairments in dyslexia: A multiple case study of dyslexic children. Developmental Science, 9(3), 237-255. reprint
    Followed by commentaries by Bishop, Goswami, Nicolson & Fawcett, and Tallal.
    Followed by our reply: Ramus, F., White, S., & Frith, U. (2006). Weighing the evidence between competing theories of dyslexia. Developmental Science, 9(3), 265-269.

Szenkovits, G., & Ramus, F. (2005). Exploring dyslexics' phonological deficit I: lexical vs. sub-lexical and input vs. output processes. Dyslexia, 11(4), 253-268. reprint

Ramus, F. (2005). Motion perception deficit: risk factor or non-specific marker for neuro-developmental disorders? Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/Current Psychology of Cognition, 23(1-2), 180-188. reprint (Commentary on Milne et al. 2005)

Tincoff, R., Hauser, M., Tsao, F., Spaepen, G., Ramus, F., & Mehler, J. (2005). The role of speech rhythm in language discrimination: Further tests with a nonhuman primate. Developmental Science, 8(1), 26-35. reprint

Ramus, F. (2004). Neurobiology of dyslexia: A reinterpretation of the data. Trends in Neurosciences, 27(12), 720-726. reprint

Ramus, F. (2004). Should neuroconstructivism guide developmental research? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8(3), 100-101. (Commentary on Goswami 2003reprint

Ramus, F., Dupoux, E., & Mehler, J. (2003). The psychological reality of rhythm classes: Perceptual studies. Paper presented at the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9/08/03 (pp. 337-342). reprint

Nazzi, T. & Ramus, F. (2003). Perception and acquisition of linguistic rhythm by infants. Speech Communication 41(1-2), 233-243reprint

Ramus, F., Pidgeon, E., & Frith, U. (2003). The relationship between motor control and phonology in dyslexic children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44 (5), 712-722reprint

Ramus, F. (2003). Developmental dyslexia: specific phonological deficit or general sensorimotor dysfunction? Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 13(2), 212-218. 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. (2002). Evidence for a domain-specific deficit in developmental dyslexia. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(6), 767-768. (Commentary on Thomas & Karmiloff-Smith 2002reprint

Ramus, F. (2002). Language discrimination by newborns: Teasing apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues. Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 2, 85-115. reprint

Ramus, F. (2002). Acoustic correlates of linguistic rhythm: Perspectives. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, 11-13/04/02 (pp. 115-120). reprint

Ramus, F. (2001). Outstanding questions about phonological processing in dyslexia. Dyslexia, 7, 197-216. reprint

Ramus, F. (2001). Dyslexia - Talk of two theories. Nature, 412, 393-395. reprint

Ramus, F., Hauser, M. D., Miller, C., Morris, D., & Mehler, J. (2000). Language discrimination by human newborns and by cotton-top tamarin monkeys. Science, 288, 349-351. (abstract and reprint)(supplementary material)
(reprinted in Tomasello, M., & Bates, E. (Eds.). (2001). Language development: The essential readings. Oxford: Blackwell.)

Dominey, P. F., & Ramus, F. (2000). Neural Network Processing of Natural Language: I. Sensitivity to Serial, Temporal and Abstract Structure in the Infant. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15(1), 87-127. reprint

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

Ramus, F., & Mehler, J. (1999). Language identification with suprasegmental cues: A study based on speech resynthesis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105(1), 512-521. reprint

Other papers

Ramus, F. (in press). Dyslexia, Phonological processing in. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. reprint

Ramus, F. (in press). Genetic basis of language: insights from developmental dyslexia. In J. J. Bolhuis & M. Everaert (Eds.), Birdsong, Speech and Language: Converging mechanisms. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Ramus, F. (2010). The phonological deficit at the heart of developmental dyslexia. In C. Rifkin (Ed.), Language Learning and Dyslexia (pp. 1-16). London: School of Oriental and African Studies.

Ramus, F., & Fisher, S. E. (2009). Genetics of language. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences IV (pp. 855-871). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.reprint

Ramus, F., & Szenkovits, G. (2009). Understanding the nature of the phonological deficit. In K. R. Pugh & P. McCardle (Eds.), How Children Learn To Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice (pp. 153-169). New York: Psychology Press.

Ramus, F. (2007). Papers not in the right section? Science, 317(5837), 453. (letter to the editor)

Ramus, F. (2006). A neurological model of dyslexia and other domain-specific developmental disorders with an associated sensorimotor syndrome. In G. D. Rosen (Ed.), The Dyslexic Brain: New Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery (pp. 75-101). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. reprint

Ramus, F. (2004). The neural basis of reading acquisition. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences (3rd ed., pp. 815-824). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. reprint

Johnson, E. K., Jusczyk, P. W., & Ramus, F. (2003). The role of segmental information in language discrimination by English-learning 5-month-olds. In D. Houston & A. Seidl & G. Hollich & E. Johnson & A. Jusczyk (Eds.), Jusczyk Lab Final Report. Retrieved from http://hincapie.psych.purdue.edu/Jusczyk.

Ramus, F., & Mehler, J. (2002). In praise of functional psychology. In A. M. Galaburda & S. M. Kosslyn & Y. Christen (Eds.), The Languages of the Brain (pp. 166-178). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bertram, C.D., Muller, M., Ramus, F. and Nugent, A.H. (2001). Measurements of steady turbulent flow through a rigid simulated collapsed tube. Med. & Biol. Eng. & Comput. 39(4), 422-427. (partly based on my final undergraduate project in fluid biomechanics back in 1995)

Mehler, J., Christophe, A., & Ramus, F. (2000). How infants acquire language: some preliminary observations. In A. Marantz, Y. Miyashita, & W. O'Neil (Eds.), Image, Language, Brain: Papers from the first Mind-Brain Articulation Project symposium (pp. 51-75). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. reprint

Dominey, P. F., & Ramus, F. (1999). A neural network model of language classification based on prosodic structures. In F. Pellegrino (Ed.), De la caractérisation à l'identification des langues, Actes de la 1ère journée d'étude sur l'identification automatique des langues, Lyon, 19/01/1999 (pp. 202-212). Lyon : Editions de l'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme.