The role of visual feedback in supervision of grammatical spelling.

Native French speakers (N = 24; M age = 20.1 yr.) were orally presented with sentences they were asked to write on a digitizing tablet, either with full visual feedback or with no visual feedback.

Pragmatic skills in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: an analysis by means of a referential communication task.

Background: Disordered discourse in cases of senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT) has mainly been described in conversation and picture description tasks. The referential communication task provides researchers and clinicians with new insights on the nature of these disorders.

Aims: To study to what extent persons suffering from DAT can benefit from shared experience through trial repetition to achieve common reference.

Orthographic revision: a developmental study of how revisers check verbal agreements in written texts.

Background: Writing is a complex activity involving various cognitive processes in the planning, the transcription and the revision of written texts. The present study focused on the revision of written texts within a developmental approach.

Aims: The study aimed to examine whether children and adults use different procedures to detect and revise erroneous grammatical agreements.

Phonological representations in children with SLI: a study of French.

The present research examined the quality of the phonological representations of French children with specific language impairment (SLI) and those with normal language development (NLD). Twenty-five children with SLI and 50 children with NLD matched on lexical age level participated in an auditory lexical decision task. The observations gathered in our study can be summarized as follows.

Cognitive aging and inhibitory efficiency in the Daneman and Carpenter's working memory task.

This study tests the hypothesis that the ability to inhibit already processed and actually irrelevant information influences performance in the reading span task (RST). French versions of the Stroop color-word task and of the Daneman and Carpenter's RST were administered to 151 participants from 30 to 80 years. In addition to the traditional span score, a score of vulnerability to intrusions was also computed as the number of intruding responses (words from preceding trials of the RST or nonfinal words).