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The Team:

Philip Abrami

Denis Cousineau

Roberto de Almeida

Rick Gurnsey

Guy Lacroix

Zohra Mimouni

Norm Segalowitz

Michael von Grünau

Concordia University•Psychology•Education

Université de Montréal•Psychologie

Collège Montmorency•Modern Languages

Research areas

• Brain mechanisms underlying perceptual and linguistic processing

– motion + locomotion– color– texture– symmetry– visual form– lexical information– syntactic parsing

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Research areas

• Understanding of attentional and automatic processes and how they interact with visual and linguistic processing

– spatial and temporal properties of the ‘attentional spotlight’– details of visual search– attention and automaticity in complex tasks like reading, second language

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Research areas

• Learning and performance

– complex tasks– forming and using concepts– language comprehension– interface between linguistic and visual representations during language

comprehension– contribution of learning environments on the achievement of superior

performance– language acquisition and speech production in pre-linguistic and brain-

damaged populations

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Interagency Educational Research

Initiative (IERI) (National Institutes of Health, Department of Education, & National

Science Foundation; USA):

“Development and evaluation of a technology enhanced adaptation of the Success for All

reading program” • diagnostic and predictive abilities of cognitive and

perceptual tests– motion coherence– naming fluency– attentional blink

• “Alphie’s Alley”

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Motion coherence

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Naming fluency (RAN)

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Attentional Blink

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Interaction of visual and linguistic information

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