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Coming to the workshop

Accommodations

Visiting Poitiers

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 Coming to Poitiers

To join Poitiers from abroad, it is usually easier to arrive first in Paris and then take a TGV train to Poitiers.

• Poitiers Airport

The aiport of Poitiers-Biard is a local airport, with domestic connections and low-cost international flights. The airport is connected to Lyon International Airport Saint-Exupéry, which has regular flights to Stuttgart, Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich, Venice, Bologna, Rome, Milan and Barcelona, among others.

For more information: aéroport de Poitiers-Biard 

• By train, Poitiers Station

Poitiers is situated on a high-speed TGV line. Poitiers is 1h30 from Paris-Montparnasse (12 daily departures), 2h15 from Paris-Charles de Gaulle (5 departures per day), 1h45 from Bordeaux.

For more information: SNCF 

Coming to the workshop

The workshop will take place at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (MSHS).

– MSHS – Campus Zone A – Building A5 – 5 rue Théodore Lefebvre – Poitiers.

– Lab phone: +335.49.45.46.10

– Maps and addresses of Campus de Poitiers

• Taxi phone number

– From a French telephone line: 05.49.88.12.34

– From a foreign telephone line: +335.49.88.12.34

• Bus – Bus stops

– Bus line n°1: Train station to Centre ville to Campus (Timetable Poitiers_Bus_Line 1_July 2015)

– Map Bus stops Centre Poitiers (15 Mo, highly zoomable).

– Poitiers Buses website  : http://www.vitalis-poitiers.fr

• Wifi access at the workshop site

Wifi connection will be available to registered participants through a personal login/password given on Thursday 2^nd, or through Eduroam service (http://www.eduroam.fr/en/).

• Lunches: Lunches will be offered to registered participants on site.

• Social event – Thursday, July 2^nd – From 19.30

Wine tasting with local food at “La Table du Chai”  (http://www.latableduchai.com/)

ACCOMMODATIONS

Participants are responsible for the reservation and payment of their accommodation.

Please note : Hotels in Poitiers are very busy at this period. We recommend you contact them before.
Notie also that the workshop will be held on the campus University which is a bit far from the city centre. There are however regular bus lines between Poitiers centre and campus.

• Poitiers’ centre

– Mercure Poitiers Centre
14 rue Edouard Grimaux
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 50 50 60
H8539@accor.com

– Hôtel de l’Europe
39 rue Carnot
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 88 12 00
reservations@hotel-europe-poitiers.com

This Hotel has special agreement with the University of Poitiers (77 € per night including breakfast). To book a room contact the Hotel with the link above and indicate that you attend the “2015 Writing Word(s) Workshop”. This preferential rate is not available via Internet Booking services. Notice that no quota of room has been reserved, the reservations are done according to the availabilities of the hotel.

– Best Western Poitiers Centre Le Grand Hôtel
28 rue Carnot
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 60 90 60
contact@grandhotelpoitiers.fr

– Hôtel Central
33, place du Maréchal Leclerc
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 01 79 79
lavilla.hotelcentral@sfr.fr

– Hôtel Ibis Styles Poitiers Centre
7 rue Victor Hugo
86000 Poitiers
33(0)5 49 00 06 06
H9119@accor.com

– Hôtel Ibis Centre
15 rue du Petit Bonneveau
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 88 30 42
H1420@accor.com

– Hôtel Au Chapon Fin
11 rue Lebacles
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 88 02 97
contact@hotel-chaponfin.com

– Citotel Le Plat d’Etain
7 et 9 rue du Plat d’Etain
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 41 04 80
contact@poitiers-leplatdetain.com

• Near train station

– AdagioAccess (Studio Residence)
23 boulevard du Grand Cerf
86000 Poitiers
33 (0)5 49 49 16 00
H8401@adagio-city.com

– Séjours & Affaires Lamartine (apartment hotel)
14 boulevard du Pont Achard – 86000 POITIERS
33 (0)5 49 58 96 38
poitiers.lamartine@sejours-affaires.com

• CAMPUS (workshop location)

– Britt Hôtel Le Beaulieu
3 rue des Frères Lumière
Quartier Beaulieu – 86000 POITIERS
33 (0)5 49 61 38 75
beaulieu@brithotel.fr

– Hôtel Ibis Beaulieu
1 r Bois Dousset – 86000 POITIERS
33 (0)5 49 61 11 02
H0695@accor.com

 Visiting Poitiers

We have selected a few website for discovering Poitiers, its remarkable medieval history, and historical monuments.

– Touring in Poitiers area: informations touristiques 

– Discovering Poitiers’ city: patrimoine et tourisme 

– The Futuroscope 

In each 2-hour thematic sessions, four oral communications will be presented and followed by extensive discussions among participants. A discussant will be in charge of introducing the main issues and concluding.

 Keynote address

 The conference keynote will be presented by Pr. Brenda Rapp from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore USA, http://cogsci.jhu.edu/people/rapp.html). Brenda Rapp studies the cognitive processes and neural substrates that support oral and written word production and comprehension. She has edited several books and special issues and has published more than 80 articles and chapters in top-tier scientific journals. She also chairs the Cognitive Science Department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

Pre-Workshop session

A pre-workshop session will be organized on July 1^st, during which the Eye and Pen application will be presented. Eye and Pen allows recording and analyzing writers’ graphomotor and ocular movements when handwriting (see www.eyeandpen.net for more information). David Chesnet, developer of the program, will present the session.

Program

– Wednesday, July, 1^st:

10.-17.00: Optional pre-workshop: Eye and Pen: Presentation and training. David Chesnet & Eric Lambert

This workshop is around Eye and Pen, a research program developed at the University of Poitiers for investigating the psychological processes involved writing. The innovative aspects of Eye and end are its possibilities to record and analyze handwriting jointly with writers eye movement.

– Thursday, July, 2nd:

09.30-11.30:   Thematic session #1: Interaction between levels of processing in writing words (Chair: Eric Lambert)

• Michael Vernon and Mark Torrance: Frequency effects in Keyboarded Trigram Production.
• Carlos J. Álvarez and Laura Ezama: Do consonant and vowels play the same role in handwriting? A study with transposed letters.
• Markus F. Damian, Qingqing Qu, et Xingshan Li: Phonology contributes to writing: Evidence from a masked priming task.
• Qingqing Qu: Phonological and orthographic encoding in written word production.
  • Discussant: Patrick Bonin

11.30-12.30:   Poster session (Size of poster: 40” wide x 60” high)

• Spelling difficulties in Alzheimer disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment.
  Olivia Afonso, Carlos J. Álvarez, Carmen Martínez, and Fernando Cuetos.
• Which role for phonology in handwriting? Evidence from a color-writing task in French.
  Ophélie De Sousa Oliveira, Eric Lambert and Thierry Olive. 
• The interaction of orthographic and motor processes in handwriting production: Exploring word frequency and length effects.
  Florie Gay, Yoko Sugaya, Cyril Perret, and Sonia Kandel.
• The Impact of Grapheme and Syllable Boundaries on Handwritten Word Production in German.
  Stefan Hess and Sascha Schroeder.
• ERP and behavioural evidence for interaction/cascade between central (linguistic) and peripheral (motor) processes during word handwriting.
  Mélanie Jucla, Samuel Planton, Jean-François Démonet, and Christiane Soum.
• The effect of graphomotor constraints on the dynamics of handwriting in third and fifth graders.
  Eric Lambert, Thierry Olive and Ophélie De Sousa Oliveira.
• AoA and lexical frequency effects in handwritten picture naming: A Topographic ERP Analysis study.
  Betty Laroche, Patrick Bonin, and Cyril Perret.
• The role of phonology and orthography in Chinese written production in children.
  Qingfang Zhang and Chen Fen.
• How do second graders handle morphemes when writing morphologically complex words? Insights from a copy task.
  Pauline Quémart and Eric Lambert.
• Syntactic planning restricts lexical access in sentence production.
  Jens Roeser, Mark Torrance and Thomas Baguley.
• Reading for writing differs from reading for word recognition.
  Solen Sausset, Eric Lambert, and Thierry Olive.
• The power of handwriting: Eye-tracking evidence that letter identification is sensitive to our own motor experience.
  Yannick Wamain and Solène Kalénine.

12.30-14.00:   Lunch

14.00-16.00:   Thematic session #2: Writing words in different languages (Chair: Thierry Olive)

• Patrick Bonin and Alain Meot: Does the use of different word production tasks to investigate handwriting spelling processes make a difference?
• Marie-Josephe Tainturier: Cross-linguistic interactions in impaired and unimpaired bilingual spelling.
• Sonia Kandel and Anna Ghimenton: Orthographic and/or phonological coding of double letters in English and Italian words.
• Qingfang Zhang and Cheng Wang: Phonology is not accessed earlier than orthography in Chinese written production: An ERP Study.
  • Discussant: Markus Damian.

16.00-16.30:   Coffee break

16.30-18.30:   Thematic session #3: Writing words: Typical and atypical development (Chair: Pauline Quémart)

• Sébastien Pacton: How does graphotactic knowledge and morphological relatedness influence children’s learning of new spellings?
• Annabel Molyneaux, Anna Barnett, Vincent Connelly, Georgina Glenny, and Robert A. Davies: Sub-lexical fragmentation of words during handwriting in English.
• Vincent Connelly, Emma Sumner, and Anna Barnett: Children and adults with Dyslexia struggling with writing: How does the impact of word spelling problems change over development?
• Olivia Afonso, Paz Suárez-Coalla, and Fernando Cuetos: Spelling impairments in Spanish dyslexic adults.
  • Discussant: Vincent Connelly

From 9.00: Welcome Cocktail Reception

– Friday, July, 3rd

09.00-10.30:   Keynote: Pr. Brenda Rapp, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Writing words: Can neural data further our understanding of the underlying cognitive representations and processes?

10.30-11.00:   Coffee break

11.00-13.00:   Thematic session #4: Writing words: which measures for which research questions? (Chair: Cyril Perret)

• Guido Nottbusch: In-air pen movements in children and adults
• Olivier Dufor, Mahmoud Hassan, Ahmad Mheich, Deok-Hee Kim-Dufor, Arnaud Biraben, Fabrice Wendling, and Claude Berrou: Comparison of methods for temporal segmentation of processes in language tasks.
• Samuel Planton, Jean-François Démonet, and Mélanie Jucla: The “handwriting brain”: a motor/linguistic network with specialized “writing-specific” areas?
• Tania Cerni, Jean-Luc Velay, Marianne Vaugoyeau, François-Xavier Alario, and Marieke Longcamp: Motor expertise for typing impacts lexical decision performance.
  • Discussant: Carlos Alvarez

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.30: Closing session: Assessment of the workshop and prospective.

Registration to the workshop is free of charge, lunches and coffee break will be offered by the organization. Because of the limited number of participants, to facilitate the organization of the workshop, please confirm your participation no later than February 28th, 2015 (writingwords2015@univ-poitiers.fr).

If you intend to participate to the optional pre-workshop session on Eye and Pen, please, indicate it in your attendance confirmation email (writingwords2015@univ-poitiers.fr).

In addition, neuroimaging techniques (EEG, fMRI) now allow studying the neuroanatomical substrates of writing, which strengthens our understanding of the mechanisms involved for producing words (e.g., Dufor & Rapp, 2013; Perret, Bonin, & Laganaro, 2014). Neuropsychological studies of brain-damaged patients also provide clues to identify the brain structures involved in written production (e.g., Tsapkini & Rapp, 2010).

Conducting developmental studies is also  important to better understand writing acquisition and learning to write. However, very scarce developmental studies have been conducted (see Kandel & Perret, 2014) and consequently how learning to write may affect the mental mechanisms of written word production is still largely unknown.

Thematic sessions:

1 – Processing units in writing words

Different linguistic (graphemes, syllables, morphemes…) and statistical (n-grams) units play a role when writing words. This session will aim at discussing the processing units that are involved in word production through the presentation of studies that investigated different types of units.

2 – Writing words in different languages

Different notational systems (e.g., logographic, alphabetical) are used for transcribing languages. Languages also differ on transparency or constancy of their spelling system. This session will address how writing in different languages with different spelling and notational systems may affect the mental representations and processes involved when writing words.

3 – Learning to write words

When children learn to write, they need to learn to orchestrate the multiple levels of representations (orthographic, morphological…) that are involved in writing with graphomotor processes that are not yet fluent. This session will aim at understanding how the processes and representations involved in writing may change across development, and how coordination of the low- and high-level processes changes through development of writing.

4 – Methods and tools for analyzing writing

This session will focus on the tools, methods, and techniques that are used for recording and analyzing data related to typing and handwriting in word production tasks. The session will also address the kind of dependent variables that can be analyzed as well as the statistical analyses that can be carried out on these variables.

Writing words

The ability to write is a fundamental skill in modern societies participating in personal and professional development. This explains probably why issues around learning of writing are at the heart of debate in many countries. Research in psycholinguistics written production can help inform these debates by providing scientific answers to these questions.

Research on written production are indeed booming, and the increasing number of publications in this area illustrates the scientific dynamism of this work. The idea of the Writing Word (s) Workshop germinated at the symposium Studies on handwritten word generation: Which models and methodologies? organized by Eric Lambert and Solen Sausset at the International Symposium Writing Research Across Borders (Paris, 2014). During the symposium, researchers from several countries presented their work and were able to discuss the latest scientific advances on writing. To extend these rich exchanges, has emerged the idea of organizing a regular workshop on the written word production.

The Written Production Team of the Centre for Research on Cognition and Learning (CNRS & University of Poitiers) is pleased to welcome you to this first Writing Word(s) Workshop.