An experiment is reported in which participants read sequences of five words, looking for items describing articles clothing. The third and fourth words critical were defined as "foveal" "parafoveal" respectively. length frequency foveal the length, frequency, initial-letter constraint parafoveal manipulated. Gaze refixation rate on word measured a function properties word. results show that gaze given systematically modulated by an unfixated It suggested apparent inconsistencies previous...

A growing corpus of evidence suggests that morphology could play a role in reading acquisition, and young readers be sensitive to the morphemic structure written words. In present experiment, we examined whether when morphological information is activated word recognition. French fourth graders made visual lexical decisions derived words preceded by primes sharing either or an orthographic relationship with target. Results showed significant equivalent facilitation priming effects cases...

Reading is known to be primarily a linguistic task. However, successfully decode written words, children also need develop good visual‐perception skills. Furthermore, motor skills are implicated in letter recognition and reading acquisition. Three studies have been designed determine the link between reading, visual perception, visual–motor integration using Developmental Test of Visual Perception version 2 (DTVP‐2). Study 1 tests how perception kindergarten predict outcomes Grade 1, typical...

Three experiments are reported, examining the effects of a typographical error in parafoveal vision on aspects foveal inspection time and saccade targeting. All involved reading for comprehension. A contingent presentation procedure ensured that errors were restored to their correct form before they viewed vision: They never available processing. In Experiment 1, was formed by replacing first letter target word with second occurrence its letter, producing an illegal nonword. This...

One essential skill believed to consolidate during the preschool years is children's ability recognize different letters of alphabet. The aim present study was track how visual representations change and are consolidated with exposure print graphomotor experience a child has. A secondary goal this investigate emergence right field advantage for letter identification, reflecting sensitivity directionality print. Eighty-one children (aged 4 5 years) participated in longitudinal where they were...

Reading is essential for learning, from literature to physics, paper screens on e-readers and smart phones. Even if it well known that learning read implies good language skills, children also need develop oculomotor visual-perception skills. Thereby, any deficits in visual processing may affect learning. The possible impact of rarely considered, especially with regard eye movements perception. Hence, these are usually discovered much later or remain undiagnosed. present study aimed at...

Procedural learning has been mainly tested through motor sequence tasks in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, especially isolated Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Reading (RD). Studies on adaptation are scarcer more controversial. This study aimed to compare the performance of associated DCD RD a graphomotor task. In total, 23 RD, 16 DCD, 19 DCD-RD, 21 typically developing (TD) wrote trigrams both conventional (from left right) opposite right left) writing directions....

The developmental trajectories of several attention components, such as orienting, inhibition, and the guidance selection by relevance (i.e., advance knowledge relevant to task) were investigated in 498 participants (ages 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 20).The paradigm was based on Michael al.'s (2006) Master Activation Map model consisted three visual search tasks presented an intra-subject latin-square design differing terms probability with which a salient signal associated target or distractor.The...

Résumé La dyslexie est un trouble développemental très fréquemment associé à des troubles moteurs de différente nature. Cet article propose une revue travaux portant sur la motricité enfants et adultes dyslexiques. Dans premier temps, nous constatons que comorbidité entre Trouble l’acquisition coordinations (TAC) fréquente. Par ailleurs, les recherches montrent ces patients présentent dysfonctionnements l’on peut qualifier subcliniques. Ces peuvent être catégorisés en fonction domaines...

The present study investigated the impact of inter-character spacing on saccade programming in beginning readers and dyslexic children. In two experiments, eye movements were recorded while children, reading-age, chronological-age controls, performed an oculomotor lateralized bisection task words strings hashes presented either with default or extra between characters. results Experiment 1 showed that (1) only proficient had already developed highly automatized procedures for both left-...

Only one previous developmental study of Stroop task performance (Schiller, 1966) has controlled for differences in processing speed that exist both within and between age groups. Therefore, the question whether early change magnitude interference actually persists after controlling needs further investigation; work is motivated by possibility any remaining would be caused process(es) other than speed. Analysis data from two experiments revealed that, even using z-transformed reaction times,...

The present study compared the reading ability of first-grade and dyslexic children using an experimental paradigm known to elicit optimal viewing position (OVP) effect in skilled readers. Word frequency initial fixation location were manipulated a word identification task. results showed OVP for both groups. However, word-recognition performance was lower than group. In addition, whereas beginning readers obtained typical inverted J-shape curve, dyslexics had symmetric curve. These...

A reading-level comparison was used to investigate visuo-attentional processing in the perception of letters words by dyslexics as compared reading-level-control children (RL-controls). Two paradigms were used: Reicher-Wheeler paradigm with a forced-choice procedure elicit word-superiority effect (WSE, difference between performance on pseudoword targets and word targets) pseudoword-superiority (PSE, nonword targets), visual-field evaluate fovea parafovea (in left visual field -LVF- right...

The optimal viewing position (OVP) effect indicates that words are identified most quickly when the eyes fixate near word centre in alphabetic languages. In two studies, we tested OVP typically developing readers and children with developmental dyslexia (DD), coordination disorder (DCD) both disorders (DD + DCD), using a variable‐viewing‐position technique. Study 1 showed had developed highly automatized procedures of left‐to‐right attentional scanning resulting an inverted J ‐shape VP curve...