Evelyne Mercure

Evelyne Mercure is an Independent Research Fellow at University College London (UCL), specializing in developmental neuroscience and cognitive development. Her research focuses on how experience shapes functional specialization in the brain, particularly in infants exposed to diverse language environments. She uses neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, ERP, NIRS) to study social stimuli processing, with a current emphasis on hearing infants of deaf mothers to explore experience-dependent plasticity. Her work bridges developmental psychology, linguistics, and machine learning, addressing topics like bilingualism, audiovisual integration, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Key research interests include the impact of language experience on brain development, mechanisms of social attention, and the role of early sensory input in shaping cognition. She collaborates with the Contact Visual Communication research group and employs advanced computational methods (e.g., GRU neural networks) to analyze mother-infant interaction dynamics.

Her publications span topics from neuroimaging studies of bilingual infants to theoretical frameworks in aesthetic appreciation during early development. Despite no explicitly listed awards, her work has been consistently published in high-impact venues since 2004, with recent focus on practical and computational approaches to understanding developmental processes.