Pascale Tremblay
Pascale Tremblay is a full professor in the school of rehabilitation at Université Laval and holds the Canada Research Chair in the neurobiology of speech and hearing. Her work, fundamentally interdisciplinary, aims to uncover the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the perception and production of speech and voice in adults, to describe the impacts of aging on these mechanisms and, ultimately, to understand the relationship between speech decline and brain senescence. This knowledge is key to develop strategies to prevent or delay the effects of aging on communication by inducing neuroplastic changes in the neurological circuits involved in speech and hearing. Strategies under investigation include neurostimulation and the practice musical activities, especially singing, as well as other types of speech/vocal expertise. Pascale’s research relies on the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroencephalography (EEG) as well as behavioural and acoustic analyzes.