Abstract The aim of the present study was to test Le Floch and Ropars’ hypothesis according to which dyslexia is mainly triggered by visual processing deficits, namely an absence of eye dominance, which induce the aberrant perception of afterimages for individual letters. According to these authors, dyslexic readers would be expected to produce rea...
During human childhood, brain development and body growth compete for limited metabolic resources, resulting in a trade-off where energy allocated to brain development can decrease as body growth accelerates. This preregistered study explores the potential links between language skills, used as a proxy for brain development, and body mass index at ...
Feedforward models are mechanisms enabling an agent to predict the sensory outcomes of its actions. It can be implemented in the nervous system in the form of efference copies, which are copies of motor signals that are subtracted from the sensory stimulation actually detected, literally cancelling the perceptual outcome of the predicted action. In...
We show that sensorimotor behavior can be reliably predicted from single-trial EEG oscillations fluctuating in a coordinated manner across brain regions, frequency bands and movement time epochs. We define high-dimensional oscillatory portraits to capture the interdependence between basic oscillatory elements , quantifying oscillations occurring in...
Sensory-motor systems are able to extract statistical regularities in dynamic environments,allowing them to generate quicker responses and anticipatory behavior oriented towardsexpected events. Anticipatory smooth eye movements (aSEM) have been observed inprimates when the temporal and kinematic properties of a forthcoming visual moving targetare f...
Higher levels of household chaos have been related to increased child affect dysregulation during later development. To understand why this relationship emerges, we used miniature wearable microphones and autonomic monitors to obtain day-long recordings in home settings from a cohort of N=74 12-month-old infants and their caregivers from the South-...
Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
The classification of qubit channels is known since 2002. However, that of rebit channels has never been studied so far, maybe because of the scarcity of concrete rebit examples. In this paper we point out that the strategy used to classify qubit channels cannot be pursued in the rebit case and we propose an alternative which allows us to complete ...
Handwriting is a complex perceptual-motor task that requires years of training and practice before complete mastering. Its acquisition is crucial since handwriting is the basis, together with reading, for the acquisition of higher-level skills such as spelling, grammar, syntax, and text composition. Despite correct learning and practice of handwrit...
Much research has been dedicated to understanding the psychological and neural bases of goal-directed action. Yet, the relationship between context and goal-directed action is not well understood. Here, we used excitotoxic lesions, chemogenetics, and circuit-specific manipulations to demonstrate a role for ventral hippocampus (vHPC) in the contextu...
