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Overview

Sylviane Valdois is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research focuses primarily on psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics, with notable contributions in the subfields of developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and statistics and probability. Their work encompasses various topics, including reading and literacy development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, tactile and sensory interactions, child development and digital technology, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, hearing impairment and communication, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent publications by Sylviane Valdois include:

  • The visual-attention span deficit in developmental dyslexia: Review of evidence for a visual-attention-based deficit, 2022, Dyslexia
  • Varieties of Cognitive Profiles in Poor Readers: Evidence for a VAS-Impaired Subtype, 2020, Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Atypical viewing position effect in developmental dyslexia: A behavioural and modelling investigation, 2021, Cognitive Neuropsychology

Their research also intersects with work published in other venues such as Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Frequent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Dyslexia
  • Journal of Learning Disabilities
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology

Collaborators who have frequently co-authored with Sylviane Valdois include Julien Diard, Émilie Ginestet, Rachel Zoubrinetzky, Ahmed Zaher, and Thierry Phénix. This network reflects interdisciplinary engagement across cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Their research addresses diverse aspects of developmental disorders, especially focusing on reading difficulties such as dyslexia and visual attention span impairments. This work explores cognitive profiles associated with poor reading abilities, orthographic learning, and visual attention mechanisms as predictors of reading fluency and comprehension across languages.

Main fields of study represented in their publications are:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Mathematics

Subfields where their contributions are prominent include:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Education
  • Information Systems

Key research topics covered are:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Best Publications

  • Developmental dyslexia: The visual attention span deficit hypothesis

    Marie Line Bosse;Marie Josèphe Tainturier;Sylviane Valdois

  • A connectionist multiple-trace memory model for polysyllabic word reading.

    Bernard Ans;Serge Carbonnel;Sylviane Valdois

  • Predictors of developmental dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity

    Karin Landerl;Karin Landerl;Franck Ramus;Kristina Moll;Kristina Moll;Heikki Lyytinen

  • The Cognitive Deficits Responsible for Developmental Dyslexia: Review of Evidence for a Selective Visual Attentional Disorder.

    Sylviane Valdois;Marie Line Bosse;Marie Josèphe Tainturier

  • Cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and spelling development in five European orthographies

    Kristina Moll;Franck Ramus;Juergen Bartling;Jennifer Bruder

  • Influence of the visual attention span on child reading performance: A cross-sectional study

    Marie-Line Bosse;Sylviane Valdois

  • Phonological and visual processing deficits can dissociate in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from two case studies

    Sylviane Valdois;Marie-Line Bosse;Bernard Ans;Serge Carbonnel;Serge Carbonnel

  • The eye movements of dyslexic children during reading and visual search: Impact of the visual attention span

    Chloé Prado;Matthieu Dubois;Sylviane Valdois

  • The visual attention span deficit in dyslexia is visual and not verbal.

    Muriel Lobier;Rachel Zoubrinetzky;Sylviane Valdois;Sylviane Valdois

  • Neural dissociation of phonological and visual attention span disorders in developmental dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports.

    C. Peyrin;M. Lallier;J.F. Démonet;C. Pernet

  • Lexical orthographic knowledge develops from the beginning of literacy acquisition.

    Catherine Martinet;Sylviane Valdois;Michel Fayol

  • New insights on developmental dyslexia subtypes: heterogeneity of mixed reading profiles.

    Rachel Zoubrinetzky;Frédérique Bielle;Sylviane Valdois

  • Superior parietal lobule dysfunction in a homogeneous group of dyslexic children with a visual attention span disorder

    C. Peyrin;J.F. Démonet;M.A. N’Guyen-Morel;J.F. Le Bas

  • Behavioral and ERP evidence for amodal sluggish attentional shifting in developmental dyslexia.

    Marie Lallier;Marie Josèphe Tainturier;Benjamin Dering;Sophie Donnadieu

  • Sequential or simultaneous visual processing deficit in developmental dyslexia

    Delphine Lassus-Sangosse;Marie-Ange N’guyen-Morel;Sylviane Valdois

  • The Role of Visual Processing Speed in Reading Speed Development

    Muriel Lobier;Matthieu Dubois;Matthieu Dubois;Sylviane Valdois

  • Syllables as functional units in a copying task

    Sonia Kandel;Sylviane Valdois

  • Visual processing of multiple elements in the dyslexic brain: evidence for a superior parietal dysfunction

    Muriel A. Lobier;Muriel A. Lobier;Carole Peyrin;Carole Peyrin;Cédric Pichat;Cédric Pichat;Jean-François Le Bas

  • Fractionating the multi-character processing deficit in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from two case studies.

    Matthieu Dubois;Søren Kyllingsbæk;Chloé Prado;Serban C. Musca

  • Role of the superior parietal lobules in letter-identity processing within strings: FMRI evidence from skilled and dyslexicreaders

    Caroline Reilhac;Carole Peyrin;Jean-François Démonet;Sylviane Valdois

  • Heterogeneity in the cognitive profile of normal elderly

    S Valdois;Y Joanette;A Poissant;B Ska

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Démonet
Jean-François Démonet University Hospital of Lausanne
Michel Fayol
Michel Fayol University of Clermont Auvergne
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Karin Landerl
Karin Landerl University of Graz
Gerd Schulte-Körne
Gerd Schulte-Körne Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bernadette Ska
Bernadette Ska University of Montreal
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Urs Maurer
Urs Maurer Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society

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