After a brief historical perspective of the relationship between language and music, we
review our work on transfer of training from music to speech that aimed at testing the general …

The visual attention (VA) span is defined as the amount of distinct visual elements which can
be processed in parallel in a multi-element array. Both recent empirical data and theoretical …

Musical training has been shown to positively influence linguistic abilities. To follow the
developmental dynamics of this transfer effect at the preattentive level, we conducted a …

Speech perception deficits in developmental dyslexia were investigated in quiet and various
noise conditions. Dyslexics exhibited clear speech perception deficits in noise but not in …

The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis was found successfully to account for
variability in developmental dyslexia (Bosse, Tainturier & Valdois, 2007). We conducted a …

We examined whether classifications based on reading performance are relevant to identify
cognitively homogeneous subgroups of dyslexic children. Each of the 71 dyslexic …

The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis of dyslexia posits that letter string deficits
are a consequence of impaired visual processing. Alternatively, some have interpreted this …

Visual‐attentional theories of dyslexia predict deficits for dyslexic children not only for the
perception of letter strings but also for non‐alphanumeric symbol strings. This prediction was …

The eye movements of 14 French dyslexic children having a VA span reduction and 14
normal readers were compared in two tasks of visual search and text reading. The dyslexic …

The processing of letters within strings is challenging for beginning readers. Letter
identification is affected by visual similarity, loss of information with eccentricity and …