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Brunelliere, Angele; Dufour, Sophie; Nguyen, Noel – Brain and Language, 2011
Using the mismatch negativity (MMN) response, we examined how Standard French and Southern French speakers access the meaning of words ending in /e/ or /[epsilon]/ vowels which are contrastive in Standard French but not in Southern French. In Standard French speakers, there was a significant difference in the amplitude of the brain response after…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Semantics, Word Recognition, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Peyrin, C.; Demonet, J. F.; N'Guyen-Morel, M. A.; Le Bas, J. F.; Valdois, S. – Brain and Language, 2011
A visual attention (VA) span disorder has been reported in dyslexic children as potentially responsible for their poor reading outcome. The purpose of the current paper was to identify the cerebral correlates of this VA span disorder. For this purpose, 12 French dyslexic children with severe reading and VA span disorders and 12 age-matched control…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Stimuli, Dyslexia, Attention
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Dehaene-Lambertz, G.; Pena, M.; Christophe, A.; Landrieu, P. – Brain and Language, 2004
We report the case of a neonate tested three weeks after a neonatal left sylvian infarct. We studied her perception of speech and non-speech stimuli with high-density event-related potentials. The results show that she was able to discriminate not only a change of timbre in tones but also a vowel change, and even a place of articulation contrast…
Descriptors: Neonates, Vowels, Auditory Discrimination, Verbal Stimuli