Judit Gervain is a psychologist, neurolinguist and acquisitionist who is professor of developmental psychology at the University of Padua.
[2] In 2018 Gervain received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her project BabyRhythm.
[1] Gervain's research is interdisciplinary, spanning linguistics, psychology and developmental cognitive neuroscience.
[1] The optical brain-monitoring technique functional near-infrared spectroscopy has been a central method in her work.
[5] Her ERC project BabyRhythm (2018–2023) dealt with how speech prosody lays the foundations for language acquisition in infants, both before and after birth.