BASIC PROCESSES 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 BASIC PROCESSES

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 BASIC PROCESSES

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 BASIC PROCESSES

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” BASIC PROCESSES

Motion coherence BASIC PROCESSES

Naming fluency (RAN) o a s d p a o s p d s d a p d o a p s o a o s a s d p o d a d s p o d s a s o p s a d p a p o a p s BASIC PROCESSES

Can you find a dinosaur? Attentional Blink BASIC PROCESSES

Interaction of visual and linguistic information BASIC PROCESSES

Pinna illusion

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