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Hakima Megherbi
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Exposure to Androstenes Influences Processing of Emotional Words
2018
This article is part of the Research Topic 'The Importance of Olfaction in Intra- and Interspecific Communication'; International audience; There is evidence that human-produced androstenes affect attitudinal, emotional, and physiological states in a context-dependent manner, suggesting that they could be involved in modulating social interactions. For instance, androstadienone appears to increase attention specifically to emotional information. Most of the previous work focused on one or two androstenes. Here, we tested whether androstenes affect linguistic processing, using three different androstene compounds. Participants (90 women and 77 men) performed a lexical decision task after bei…
Reading comprehension in French 1st and 2nd grade children: Contribution of decoding and language comprehension
2006
This paper reports a study conducted with French first-grade and second-grade children (mean age: 6;8 and 7;8 respectively). The first aim was to re-examine the Gough and Tunmer’s (1986) Simple View in assessing the specific contribution of decoding ability and language comprehension to reading comprehension. The second one was to analyse the difficulties of children in reading comprehension. Reading and listening comprehension were assessed using both visual and auditory version of the same test. Decoding ability was assessed by means of a nonword reading test. On the basis of reading comprehension scores, skilled and less skilled comprehenders were contrasted, and then two groups of less …
Capacité de mémoire de travail et traitement du pronom chez l’enfant
2008
Resume L’objectif de cette etude est d’explorer les relations entre la capacite de la memoire de travail (MT) et la comprehension de l’ecrit chez l’enfant en s’interessant a une operation particuliere : le traitement des pronoms et en utilisant des variables on-line et off-line. Deux groupes d’enfants de neuf a dix ans a capacite faible ou elevee de MT ont realise une epreuve de traitement des pronoms. Dans cette tâche, l’identification du pronom etait rendue plus ou moins difficile en fonction de la charge en MT, manipulee au moyen de deux facteurs : la disponibilite d’un indice de genre et la distance separant le pronom de l’antecedent. Les resultats montrent que compares aux enfants a ca…