Alain Desrochers Primary Affiliation: University of Ottawa Department of Psychology 125 University Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 Phone:(613)562-5800 Fax:(613)562-5147 Email:

Research Interests & Abilities (Keywords)

• Reading development
• Skilled reading
• Lexical processing
• Individual differences
• Cross-linguistic comparisons
• Bilingualism

Major Research Activities

My research program is concerned with reading acquisition and expert reading. Lexical identification can be regarded as a fundamental operation in reading and be construed as the activation of the best match for an orthographic input in memory. This matching process, in turn, enables the retrieval of learned phonological, syntactic, semantic and other information that meets the requirement of particular reading tasks such as reading aloud, syllabic segmentation of print, differentiating between words and nonwords, lexical categorisation, and semantic interpretation. My current work is concerned with the acquisition and speeded retrieval of phonological, orthographic, syntactic, and semantic knowledge related to reading and with the interaction between these domains of knowledge.

Network Research Projects

• Development of a Multi-component Test Battery for the Assessment of French Reading Skills  (Project Leader)
• Core Facility to Support Bilingual Literacy Research  
• Reading Comprehension in English- and French-speaking Children: Core Processes and Predictors  

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