BASIC PROCESSES The Team: Philip Abrami Denis Cousineau Roberto de Almeida 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 – eye movements – head movements 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 – attention and visual efficiency during locomotion BASIC PROCESSES

Research areas Learning and performance – complex tasks – forming and using concepts – language comprehension – interface between linguistic and visual representations during language comprehension – visual performance during human locomotion – 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 Work in the recent past:

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

Eye and head movements during visual tasks while walking or running BASIC PROCESSES

Conclusion We study basic processes in perception and cognition in detail and sometimes quite abstractly. Being in the center has put us into contact with colleagues studying situations where these processes are examined in the larger context of learning and performance. This has given us the opportunity to expand our research and examine new ideas within this larger context. It has also led to new collaborations within our theme and between our theme and other themes, especially the Second Language Proficiency, Early Literacy and Numeracy, Scientific Reasoning & Inquiry themes. BASIC PROCESSES