PAPERS

• May, L., Gervain, J., Carreiras, M., & Werker, J.F. (2017). The specificity of the neural response to speech at birth. Developmental Science.
• May, L. & Werker, J.F. (2014). Can a Click be a Word?: Infants’ Learning of Non Native Words, Infancy, 19(3), 281-300.
• Molavi, B., May, L., Gervain, J., Carreiras, M., Werker, J.F., & Dumont, G.A. (2013). Analyzing the resting state functional connectivity in the human language system using near infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:921. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00921
• May, L., Byers-Heinlein, K., Gervain, J., & Werker, J.F. (2011). Language and the newborn brain: Does prenatal language experience shape the neonate neural response to speech?  Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 2(222), doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00222.

POSTERS

• May, L., Gervain, J., Carreiras, M., & Werker, J.F. “Developmental Changes in Neural Activation to Spoken Language and Whistled Surrogate Language across the First Year of Life.” Presented at the International Conference for Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA, May 2016.
• May, L., Baron, A.S., & Werker, J.F. “Infants’ expectations of speakers of native and non-native language.” Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany, July 2014.
• May, L. & Werker, J.F. “You don’t sound like me, you must not look like me either: Do infants expect unfamiliar language to be associated with dissimilar others?” Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 2012.
• May, L., Gervain, J., Carreiras, M., & Werker, J.F. “Neural specialization for speech at birth: Comparing native and non-native language.” Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Annapolis, MD, November 2011.
• May, L. & Werker, J.F. “Can a click be a word? Infants’ learning of unassimilable yet linguistic labels”. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, PQ, March 2011.
• May, L. & Werker, J.F. “Word learning in the Switch task: The case of phonologically unassimilable non-native words.” Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD, March 2010.