Marie Lallier

• Reading acquisition
• Developmental dyslexia
• Bilingualism
• Phonology
• Visual attention span
• Attentional processing
• Audition
• Vision
• Amodal processing
• Sequential processing
• Simultaneous processing
• Electrophysiology

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

1. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., Berger, C. & Valdois, S. (In press). A case study of phonological dyslexia: Evidence for an amodal attentionnal deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences. Cortex.

2. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., Thierry, G., Tainturier, M. J., Billard, C. Peyrin, C., & Valdois, S. (Under Review). Auditory and visual stream segregation in dyslexic children and adults: An amodal assessment of the Sluggish Attentional Shifting Theory of dyslexia. Brain Research.

3. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (Submitted). The visual attentional span hypothesis of dyslexia: what relations with auditory deficits in disabled readers?

4. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (In preparation). Visual Attentional blink in dyslexic children: Parameterizing the deficit.

5. Lallier, M., Dering, B., Donnadieu, S., Tainturier, M. J., Thierry, G., & Valdois, S. (In preparation). Neural correlates of the amodal sluggish attentional shifting of dyslexia: an ERP study.

6. Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Baciu, M., Démonet, Le Bas, J.F., & Valdois S. (Submitted). Dissociation of phonological and visuo-attentional processing in dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports.

7. Donnadieu, S., Berger, C., Lallier, M., Marendaz, C., & Laurent, A. (Submitted). A quantitative and qualitative attention deficit in children with attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

8. Berger, C., Donnadieu, S., Lallier, M., & Valdois S. (In preparation). Development of the attentional blink: children and adults’ data from visual and auditory rapid serial presentation tasks.

Book chapter

1.Peyrin, C., Lallier, M. & Valdois, S. (2008). Visual attention span brain mechanisms in normal and dyslexic readers. In M. Baciu (Ed.), Neuropsychology and cognition of language Behavioural, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of spoken and written language (pp. 22-43).

Proceedings

1. Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Longeras, E., Baciu, M., Le Bas, J.F., & Valdois, S. (2009). Neural correlates of the visuo-attentional span in normal and dyslexic readers.NeuroImage.

2. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (2007). A case study of phonological dyslexia: Evidence against an amodal attentional deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences

3. Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Baciu, M., Démonet, J.F., Pernet, C., Le Bas, J.F., & Valdois Sylviane (2007). Dissociation of phonological and visuo-attentional processing in dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports. NeuroImage.

4. Lallier, M., Lassus D., Valdois S. (2007). Length effects on reaction times and ocular fixations in reading: A study on French dyslexic and skilled readers.

Posters in international conferences

1. Lallier, M., Dering, B., Tainturier, M. J., Thierry, G., & Valdois, S (Submitted). Neural correlates of the amodal sluggish attentional shifting of dyslexia: an ERP study.The 1^st Neurobiology of Language Conference, October 15-16, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois.

2. Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Longeras, E., Baciu, M., Le Bas, J.F., & Valdois, S. (Accepted). Neural correlates of the visuo-attentional span in normal and dyslexic readers.The 15^th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 18-23, 2009 in San Francisco, California.

3. Lallier, M.,Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (2008). Auditory and visual stream segregation in dyslexic children: Evidence for a sluggish attentional shifting in the auditory modality only. 7^th British Dyslexia Association International Conference, Harrogate, United Kingdom, March 26-29, 2008.

4. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (2007). A case study of phonological dyslexia: Evidence against an amodal attentionnal deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences.15^th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Marseille, France, 29^th August-1^st.

5. Lallier M., Bosse M-L., Valdois S. (2007). The visual-attentional span and the perceptual span in reading: do the two spans assess the same processes? 14^th Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-14.

6. Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Baciu, M., Démonet, J.F., Pernet, C., Le Bas, J.F., & Valdois Sylviane (2007). Dissociation of phonological and visuo-attentional processing in dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports. 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Meeting, Chicago, United States of America, June 10-14.

7. Lallier M., Lassus D., Valdois S. (2007). Length effects on reaction times and ocular fixations in reading: A study on French dyslexic and skilled readers. 2^nd European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece, May 23-25.

Other publication

Valdois S., Lallier M., Gillet-Perret E. & Lassus-Sangosse D. (2007). Trouble de l’empan visuo-attentionnel dans les dyslexies développementales : Bases théoriques, diagnostic et prise en charge rééducative, Fréquence. Revue de l'ordre des orthophonistes et des audiologistes du Québec.

Teaching positions

2008-2009 Assistant temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche à l’UPMF

2006-2008  Monitorat d’Initiation à l’Enseignement Supérieur à l’UPMF

2005-2006 Vacataire d’enseignement à l’UPMF

Teaching classes (254hrs)

Analysis and interpretation of statistical data (2^nd year undergraduate)

Introduction to cognitive psychology (3^rd year undergraduate)

Categorization processing (3^rd year undergraduate)

Language and speech processing (3^rd year undergraduate)

Reading acquisition (‘School Psychologist’ Master’s degree)

Research project in cognitive psychology (3^rd year undergraduate)

From September 2007, Collaboration with the University of Wales, Bangor, supervised by Guillaume Thierry and Marie-Josèphe Tainturier. Assessing the attentional processing deficit of rapid sequences of visual and auditory stimuli in dyslexic English young adults: a behavioral and ERP study.

My doctoral thesis aims at identifying the auditory and visual attentional specificities in the framework of developmental dyslexia. Grounded in an original multifactorial approach of the reading disorder, this work assesses in both visual and auditory domains the independency of two theoretical frameworks assuming different attentional causes leading to dyslexia. It has indeed been stated that some dyslexias would stem from a phonological deficit caused by an amodal sluggish attentional shifting, whereas others would stem from simultaneous attentional limitations in the visual modality (i.e. visual attentional span deficit). For the first time, similar visual and auditory experimental paradigms are used in the same participants to assess their skills in a set of tasks contrasting the two theories. First, the results show that the reading disorder is strongly related to sequential attentional deficit in the auditory domain only, thus reconsidering the hypothesis of the amodal attentional sequential deficit in dyslexia. Moreover, our results suggest that phonological processing is linked to sequential attentional skills, and that sequential and simultaneous visual attentional disorders dissociate in developmental dyslexia. Finally, the auditory simultaneous attentional deficit is related to the visual attentional span disorder in the same dyslexic participants, thus suggesting the amodality of simultaneous attentional deficits in dyslexia. Overall, the results bring new theoretical insights about attentional disorders in dyslexia regarding the cognitive profile of participants, and give a framework to the design of future potential diagnostic tools.

Key words: attention, vision, audition, dyslexia, sequential processing, simultaneous processing, phonology, visual attentional span.