Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
School of Psychology, Birkbeck College
The Henry Wellcome Building, London WC1E 7JL
Phone: +44 (0)20 7079 0756
Fax: +44 (0)20 7631 6587
Email: e.mercure@psychology.bbk.ac.uk
Research interests
My main research interest is in the development of functional specialisation in the brain and the respective roles of maturation and experience in this process. I am using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how the brain processes social stimuli (mainly faces, language and vocalisations) in infants, children and adults.
I am currently working at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, in collaboration with the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development on a project investigating the brain correlates of emotional vocalisations in 3-month-olds.
Curriculum vitae
From January 2009: Postdoctoral research worker at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom
2007-2008: Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck - University of London, United Kingdom
2004 to 2007: PhD at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck - University of London, United Kingdom
2002-2004: MSc in Neuroscience at Université de Montréal, Canada
1999-2002: BSc in Speech and Language Pathologies (Orthophonie) at Université de Montréal, Canada
Publications
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Mercure, E., Dick, F., Johnson, M.H. (2008). Featural and configural face processing differently modulate ERP components. Brain Research, 1239, 162-170.
Mercure, E., Dick, F., Halit, H., Kaufman, J., Johnson, M.H. (2008). Differential lateralization for words and faces: category or psychophysics? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(11), 2070-2087. Supplementary material :
Mercure, E., Ska, B., Joanette, Y. (2006). Metaphoric and non-metaphoric alternative meanings of ambiguous words: Differential processing? Journal of Medical Speech- Language Pathology, 14(3), 157-165.
Published abstracts / poster presentations
Mercure, E., Dick, F., Johnson, M.H. (2008). Do featural and configural face processing influence lateralization of the N170? Twenty-sixth European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy.
Mercure, E., Dick, F., Halit, H., Johnson, M. (2007). Explaining individual variability in lateralization for words and faces. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, USA.
Mercure, E., Levesque, M., Joanette, Y. & Ska, B (2006). Right hemisphere and the metaphoric meaning of words: A stronger sensitiviy. Brain and Cognition, 60, 314-315.
Mercure, E., Joanette, Y. & Ska, B. (2005). The biological substrate of language: The evolution of a question throughout the centuries. Brain and Cognition, 57(3), 284.
Lemay, K., Mercure, E. & Ska, B. (2003). Traitement des sens seconds métaphorique et non-métaphorique de mots polysémiques. M/S Medecine Sciences, 2(19), 37.
Mercure, E., Lemay, K., Joanette, Y. & Ska, B. (2003) Appreciation of secondary meanings of words: The challenge of putting together a semantic task to assess the participation of the right hemisphere. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA.
Mercure, E., Joanette, Y. & Ska, B. (2003). Y a-t-il une contribution spécifique de l'hémisphere droit au traitement des métaphores? REPAR, Quebec City, Canada.
Mercure, E., Lemay, K., Joanette, Y. & Ska, B.(2003). Amorçage sémantique des seconds sens métaphoriques et littéraux de mots polysémiques. VIIIe congrès biennal de la Sociéte latino-américaine de neuropsychologie (SLAN), Montreal, Canada.
Lemay, K., Mercure, E. & Ska, B. (2003). Traitement des sens seconds métaphorique et non-métaphorique de mots polysémiques. 5e Congrès annuel des stagiaires de recherche en santé, Montreal, Canada.
Cote, H., Mercure, E., Ska, B. & Joanette, Y. (2002). Effets de l'âge et de la scolarité lors de l'évaluation du langage. XXXIe Réunion scientifique et éducative annuelle de l'Association canadienne de gérontologie, Montreal, Canada.
Mercure, E., Wilshire, G., Eck, K., Cote, H. & Ska, B. (2001) Normalisation du protocole M-99 d'évaluation de la communication verbale chez les cérébrolésés droits : tâches de métaphores et de rappel de récit (phase 1). Congrès annuel de la Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie (SQRP), Chicoutimi, Canada.
Wilshire, G., Mercure, E., Eck, K., Cote, H., Joanette, Y. & Ska, B. (2001) Normalisation du protocole M-99 d'évaluation du langage chez les cérébrolésés droits : prosodie et actes de langage indirect. 3e Congrès annuel des stagiaires de recherche en santé, Montreal, Canada