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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
learning and playing musical instruments
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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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