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September 1996 - December 2001
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This study investigated the role of language-related abilities in emotion
comprehension among young people with non-specific intellectual developmental
disorders (NS-IDDs). Forty children and adolescents with NS-IDDs completed tasks
assessing emotion comprehension, receptive vocabulary, verbal reasoning skills,
and verbal working memory. Results sh...
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Parmi les voies d’étude privilégiées qui consiste à s’interroger sur les facteurs à l’origine
du développement psychologique des personnes, deux ensembles de facteurs sont
principalement distingués : d’une part, des facteurs relevant des personnes elles-mêmes, souvent considérés comme d’origine génétique, et d’autre part, des facteurs relevant de l...
Parmi les personnes handicapées, les personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle (IDD) sont les plus exposées au risque d'exclusion. Les difficultés de communication auxquelles sont confrontées ces personnes impactent considérablement leurs capacités d'autodétermination, l'inclusion sociale et les relations interpersonnelles. Par ailleurs, elles...
This study investigated young children's ability to draw psychological and nonpsychological inferences during reading comprehension. Whereas nonpsychological inferences require the retrieval of general background knowledge, psychological inferences rely on more contextualised knowledge relating to mental states. Based on several pretests, children,...
We studied comprehension of emotion versus concrete/abstract words in Down syndrome (DS). Study 1 compared 26 participants with DS and 26 typically developing (TD) children matched on verbal ability. Results showed no difference between groups. Study 2 assessed whether chronological age (CA) and (non)verbal abilities predicted developmental traject...
According to the Declarative/Procedural Model, the lexicon depends on declarative memory while grammar relies on procedural memory. Furthermore, procedural memory underlies the sequential processing of language. Thus, this system is important for predicting the next item in a sentence. Verb processing represents a good candidate to test this assump...
Virtual tutors are a promising technology, providing a rich interactive environment for children to learn in. However, the question of how they should behave in order to enhance pupils’ motivation remains unanswered. Using an embodied conversational agent platform, we tested human-computer interactions with 22 children aged 9–11 years. Children per...
Despite its importance for furthering social relationships, the development of the emotional lexicon has seldom been studied. Recent research suggests that during childhood, emotion words are acquired less rapidly than concrete words, but more rapidly than abstract words. The present study directly compared the comprehension of emotion words with t...
Despite its importance for furthering social relationships, the development of the emotional lexicon has seldom been studied. Recent research suggests that during childhood, emotion words are acquired less rapidly than concrete words, but more rapidly than abstract words. The present study directly compared the comprehension of emotion words with t...
Although the use of metaphors is a central component of language, the processes that sustain their comprehension have yet to be specified. Work in the fields of both metaphors and implicit learning suggests that implicit learning abilities facilitate the comprehension of metaphors. However, to date, no study has directly explored the relationships...
L’objectif de cette communication est de présenter une expérience à l’interface de la reconnaissance des expressions faciales émotionnelles (EFE) et du développement lexical chez les enfants avec un syndrome de Down (SD). Si les études menées sur la cognition sociale auprès de ces enfants ont mis en évidence un développement similaire à celui des e...
Several studies have shown deficits in emotion recognition in children with Down syndrome (DS). However, most of these studies required the understanding of verbal labels of emotion in their instructions, which may have been a disadvantage for these children, given their common language difficulties. This study addressed this issue by investigating...
Cette étude a pour objectif d’étudier la reconnaissance des émotions au moyen d’une tâche strictement non verbale, en utilisant des stimuli dynamiques (séquences filmées). La reconnaissance s’effectue sur la base de l’expression faciale et de la prosodie.
Les études les plus récentes montrent des déficits dans la reconnaissance des expressions faciales émotionnelles chez les enfants porteurs de trisomie 21 (Kasari, Freeman & Hughes, 2001 ; Williams, Wishart, Pitcairn, & Willis 2005; Wishart, Cebula, Willis, & Pitcairn 2007). Nous n’avons pour notre part trouvé aucune difficulté particulière chez 24...
Dynamic analyses of language growth tell us how vocabulary and grammar develop and how the two might be intertwined. Analyses of growth curves between 17 and 42 months, based on longitudinal data for 34 children, revealed interesting patterns of vocabulary and grammatical developments. They showed that these patterns were nonlinear, but with coinci...
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According to the literature, children with Down syndrome (DS) have difficulties recognising facial expressions. Yet abilities to recognise emotional expressions are often assessed in tasks that imply comprehension of words for emotions. We investigated the development of these abilities in children with DS in a longitudinal study that...
This study examined the semantic processing difference between decomposable idioms and novel predicative metaphors. It was hypothesized that idiom comprehension results from the retrieval of a figurative meaning stored in memory, that metaphor comprehension requires a sense creation process and that this process difference affects the processing ti...
The inhibitory deficit hypothesis has often been cited as a possible explanation for cognitive changes related to age. The aim of this study was to develop a new procedure for evaluating effortful inhibition on the basis of the comprehension of metaphors. Our experiment was carried out on younger and older adults, in whom we also measured inhibitor...
This study examined the evolution of metaphor understanding in 4- to 7-year-old children. In Experiment 1, children listened to metaphoric and literal statements that were preceded by a context, and then had to choose among three proposed interpretations (literal, contextual, and correct for metaphors; one correct and two erroneous for literal stat...
Cette recherche a étudié l'évolution de la compréhension des métaphores chez l'enfant de 4 à 7 ans. Dans l'Expérience 1, les enfants entendaient des énoncés métaphoriques et littéraux précédés d'un contexte puis choisissaient parmi trois interprétations proposées (littérale, contextuelle et correcte pour les métaphores; une correcte et deux erronée...
This study examined the evolution of metaphor understanding in 4- to 7-year-old children. In Experiment 1, children listened to metaphoric and literal statements that were preceded by a context, and then had to choose among three proposed interpretations (literal, contextual, and correct for metaphors; one correct and two erroneous for literal stat...
Inagaki and Hatano (Child Development 67 [1996] 2823–40) showed that six-year-olds attribute living properties to animals and plants, particularly when a short vitalistic description about properties is provided. They also pointed out that growth is the core of naïve biological conceptions. We replicated that study with French children aged four to...
Verb meaning in semantic memory contains both core and peripheral knowledge. This consists of specific representations of the verb's possible thematic roles, in particular possible agents and possible patients. Each is linked to the verb core with a particular degree of typicality. The primary source of thematic knowledge and its typicality lies in...
Our aim in this paper is to review the experimental research on metaphor comprehension in children. We present data based on the type of task in which children are engaged, including explanation of metaphors, multiple-choice questionnaires (choosing a paraphrase or a word congruent with the metaphor), acting out stories and memory tasks. Choice of...
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Cet article a pour objectif de présenter un panorama des études expérimentales sur la compréhension des métaphores chez l'enfant. L'exposé s'articule autour des procédures expérimentales utilisées, largement dépendantes de l'inscription théorique des auteurs. Ces deux facteurs, méthodologique et théorique, déterminent pour partie l'hétérogén...
Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris XIII, 2000.
