Anne-Lise Giraud

Prof. Anne-Lise Giraud is a Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Department of Neuroscience. Her research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying speech perception, particularly the interplay between acoustic rhythms of speech and neural oscillations (theta and gamma bands). She develops neurocomputational models to study how speech is decoded through bottom-up and top-down processes. Her work integrates computational approaches with empirical insights, emphasizing the role of predictive coding in language processing.

Key research areas include speech segmentation, phonemic encoding, and the cognitive architecture supporting language comprehension. She has contributed to interdisciplinary projects on music and language cognition, as evidenced by her participation in events like the 2017 Symposium on Neural Oscillations in Speech and Language Processing.