Cross-linguistic transfer in bilinguals reading in two alphabetic orthographies: The grain size accommodation hypothesis

M Lallier, M Carreiras - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
Reading acquisition is one of the most complex and demanding learning processes faced
by children in their first years of schooling. If reading acquisition is challenging in one …

Cross-linguistic perspectives on second language reading

L Verhoeven, C Perfetti, K Pugh - Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2019 - Elsevier
Throughout the world, many people learn to read in a second language (L2) which can be
considered a challenging task given that a script needs to be learned in a language that is …

Dyslexia in a French–Spanish bilingual girl: behavioural and neural modulations following a visual attention span intervention

S Valdois, C Peyrin, D Lassus-Sangosse, M Lallier… - Cortex, 2014 - Elsevier
We report the case study of a French–Spanish bilingual dyslexic girl, MP, who exhibited a
severe visual attention (VA) span deficit but preserved phonological skills. Behavioural …

Involvement of the dorsal and ventral attention networks in visual attention span

J Zhao, J Wang, C Huang, P Liang - Human brain mapping, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Visual attention span (VAS), which refers to the window size of multielement parallel
processing in a short time, plays an important role in higher‐level cognition (eg, reading) as …

The development of orthography and phonology coupling in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex and its relation to reading.

AM Dębska, J Wang, GK Dzięgiel-Fivet… - Journal of …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The left ventral occipito-temporal (lvOT) cortex is considered to house the brain's
representation of orthography (ie, the spelling patterns of words). Because letter-sound …

Cross‐linguistic interactions influence reading development in bilinguals: a comparison between early balanced French‐Basque and Spanish‐Basque bilingual …

M Lallier, J Acha, M Carreiras - Developmental science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates whether orthographic consistency and transparency of languages
have an impact on the development of reading strategies and reading sub‐skills (ie …

Amodal atypical neural oscillatory activity in dyslexia: A cross-linguistic perspective

M Lallier, N Molinaro, M Lizarazu… - Clinical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been proposed that atypical neural oscillations in both the auditory and the visual
modalities could explain why some individuals fail to learn to read and suffer from …

Cross-language modulation of visual attention span: an Arabic-French-Spanish comparison in skilled adult readers

FHR Awadh, T Phénix, A Antzaka, M Lallier… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In delineating the amount of orthographic information that can be processed in parallel
during a single fixation, the visual attention (VA) span acts as a key component of the …

Increased deficit of visual attention span with development in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia

J Zhao, M Liu, H Liu, C Huang - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
It has been suggested that orthographic transparency and age changes may affect the
relationship between visual attention span (VAS) deficit and reading difficulty. The present …

Developmental differences in the relationship between visual attention span and Chinese reading fluency

C Huang, ML Lorusso, Z Luo, J Zhao - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
It has been suggested that there is a close relationship between visual attention span (VAS)
and fluent reading. This relation may be modulated by participants' age, and exhibits various …