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Laboratory of Cognition, Language, and Development (LCLD)

Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences | Research center in cognition and neurosciences

Interfaculty institutes | UNI, ULB Neuroscience Institute

(Code: ULB099)

► Lexical segmentation of continuous speech in words.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Actions concertées.

Through both perception and production studies, the research concernes the nature of available cues and mental processes that determine the segmentatio ...

► Acquisition of the reading and the spelling and its troubles.

Fonds propres (patrimoine).

Developmental study of the acquisiton of reading and spelling in its phonological, lexical and morphosyntactical aspects. In parallel, study of the nat ...

► Cross-linguistic comparisons of the acquisitionof reading spelling.

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA) - Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française - Autres U.E..

This project aims at describing how the development of reading and spelling skills varies across languages. The development could be faster in more 'tr ...

► Reading and spelling development in bilingual children attending school in a second language.

Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française.

This longitudinal study compares the metaphonological and literacy skills of bilingual children attending school in a second language (French vs. Dutch ...

► Linguistic development in children

Région bruxelloise.

Development of reading and spelling skills in children from immigrant families (mainly from moroccan origin). Study of potential factors influencing th ...

► Manifestations of dyslexia in multilingual settings

Autres ressources extérieures - Fonds propres (patrimoine).

Longitudinal study of reading and spelling acquisition in children learning to read in German and French (from 3d grade on) in the Luxemburg school sys ...

► The elaboration of an instrument to evaluate the lexical level of sign language in children presenting profound deafness.

Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française.

The Sign Language was introduced these last years into the special education for deaf children. The purpose of the project is to elaborate a tool allow ...

► Development of audio-visual integral of sensory information in speech perception

Fonds associés (toutes subventions, y compris la Loterie Nat.) - Actions concertées.

The project aims at examining the role of visual information (lip reading) in speech perception under normal and noisy conditions. Adults, children at  ...

► Numerical cognition in children with early language impairments

Financement de base institutionnel.

This project aims at examining the numerical and arithmetical development of children with early language deficits.

► Fractions learning

Initiatives ministérielles et autres Communauté française.

We are interested in knowing why fractions learning represents a difficult part of mathematics education. The goal of this study is to create didactic  ...

► Bindings to see and hear a word

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

Bindings are ubiquitous. To recognize an object, we combine the features it is made of. We also integrate informations from various sense to build a un ...

► Extraction processes of visuo-orthographic units in written words

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

The aim of the project is to determine what internal characteristics of words underlie their structuration into visuo-orthographic units during the ear ...

► The impact of numerical symbolic knowledge on the number sense

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

Our goal is to investigate interactions between preverbal numerical abilities and more elaborate numerical capacities, as well as the causality of thes ...

► Arithmetic

F.R.S.-FNRS et Fonds associés (hors FRIA).

In this project, we investigate how numerical abilities, present from early age, interact with arithmetic skills, which are learned later at school. Mo ...