French Version of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test, Part I: Normative Data and Guidelines for Error Scoring.

Objective: The Hayling Sentence Completion Test (HSCT) measures prepotent response inhibition, useful to assess inhibition deficit in a variety of clinical conditions. Despite its extensive use by numerous clinical and research groups in France, normative data for the HSCT are not yet available for French speakers.

Method: A French version of the HCST was administered to a sample of 426 healthy community-dwelling French speaking adults (20-87 years of age).

Phonotactic constraints help to overcome effects of schwa deletion in French.

In a crossmodal priming experiment, visual targets (e.g. RENARD, 'fox') were auditorily primed by either an intact [see text] 'the fox' or reduced form [see text] 'the fox' of the word.