Marie Lallier

Research

Group Leader - Ikerbasque Research Professor.

Keywords: language acquisition, Developmental Dyslexia, Specific Language Impairment, Attention, Bilingualism, Visual and Auditory processing.

Research group: Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders

m.lallier@bcbl.eu

+34 943 309 300 Ext.: 223

In press

Ershaid, H., Mclaughlin, D., & Lallier, M. (In press). Highly proficient bilinguals compensate language dominance effects with differential attentional resource allocation: Insights from pupillometry. Bilingualism. Doi:10.1017/S1366728925100539

Soto, D., Lallier, M., Desender, K., & Elosegi, P. (In press). Performance feedback triggers liberal detection and perceptual confidence biases in early childhood: Implications for metacognitive training. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Doi:10.3758/s13423-025-02720-7

Venagli, I., Kupisch, T., & Lallier, M. (In press). How English orthographic proficiency modulates visual attention span in Italian learners with and without dyslexia. Bilingualism. Doi:10.1017/S1366728925000124

2025

Minissi, M.E., Antzaka, A., Mancini, S., & Lallier, M. (2025). Can playing video games enhance reading skills through more efficient serial visual search mechanisms? Insights from an eye tracking study. Language Cognition and Neuroscience, 40(2), 209-230. Doi:10.1080/23273798.2024.2411696

Pérez-Navarro, J., & Lallier, M. (2025). The contribution of the amount of linguistic exposure to bilingual language development: Longitudinal evidence from preschool years. Child Development, 96(1), 176-191. Doi:10.1111/cdev.14164

2024

Ershaid, H., Lizarazu, M., McLaughlin, D., Cooke, M., Simantiraki, O., Koutsogiannaki, M., & Lallier, M. (2024). Contributions of listening effort and intelligibility to cortical tracking of speech in adverse listening conditions. Cortex, 172, 54-71. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.018

Lallier, M., Peréz-Navarro, J., & Ordin, M. (2024). Enhanced Reading Skills are Associated with Auditory Spatial Attentional Rebalance Induced by the Exposure to Dual-language Contexts. Scientific Studies of Reading, 28(4), 371-390. Doi:10.1080/10888438.2024.2317128

Pérez-Navarro, J., Klimovich-Gray, A., Lizarazu, M., Piazza, G., Molinaro, N., & Lallier, M. (2024). Early language experience modulates the tradeoff between acoustic-temporal and lexico-semantic cortical tracking of speech. Iscience, 27(7). Doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.110247

Schwarz, J., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., & Klimovich-Gray, A. (2024). Phonological deficits in dyslexia impede lexical processing of spoken words: Linking behavioural and MEG data. Cortex, 171, 204-222. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.003

2022

Destoky, F., Bertels, J., Niesen, M., Wens, V., Vander Ghinst, M., Rovai, A., Trotta, N., Lallier, M., De Tiège, X., & Bourguignon, M. (2022). The role of reading experience in atypical cortical tracking of speech and speech-in-noise in dyslexia. Neuroimage, 253. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119061

Mancarella, M., Antzaka, A., Bertoni, S., Facoetti, A., & Lallier, M. (2022). Enhanced disengagement of auditory attention and phonological skills in action video gamers. Computers in Human Behavior, 135. Doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107344

Pérez-Navarro, J., Lallier, M., Clark, C., Flanagan, S., & Goswami, U. (2022). Local Temporal Regularities in Child-Directed Speech in Spanish. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 65(10), 3776-3788. Doi:10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00111

Ríos-López, P., Molinaro, N., Bourguignon, M., & Lallier, M. (2022). Right-hemisphere coherence to speech at pre-reading stages predicts reading performance one year later. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 34(2), 179-193. Doi:10.1080/20445911.2021.1986514

Taouki, I., Lallier, M., & Soto, D. (2022). The role of metacognition in monitoring performance and regulating learning in early readers. Metacognition and Learning, 17(3), 921-948. Doi:10.1007/s11409-022-09292-0

Zugarramurdi, C., Fernández, L., Lallier, M., Carreiras, M., & Valle-Lisboa, J.C. (2022). Lexiland: A Tablet-based Universal Screener for Reading Difficulties in the School Context. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 60(7), 1688-1715. Doi:10.1177/07356331221074300

Zugarramurdi, C., Fernández, L., Lallier, M., Valle-Lisboa, J.C., & Carreiras, M. (2022). Mind the Orthography: Revisiting the Contribution of Prereading Phonological Awareness to Reading Acquisition. Developmental Psychology, 58(6), 1003-1016. Doi:10.1037/dev0001341

2021

Antzaka, A., Acha, J., Carreiras, M., & Lallier, M. (2021). The Deployment of Young Readers´ Visual Attention across Orthographic Strings: The Influence of Stems and Suffixes. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25(3), 193-214. Doi:10.1080/10888438.2020.1747470

Clark, C., Guediche, S., & Lallier, M. (2021). Compensatory cross-modal effects of sentence context on visual word recognition in adults. Reading and Writing, 34(8), 2011-2029. Doi:10.1007/s11145-021-10132-x

Lallier, M., Martin, C.D., Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2021). Cross-linguistic transfer in bilingual reading is item specific. Bilingualism, 24(5), 891-901. Doi:10.1017/S1366728921000183

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Bourguignon, M., Carreiras, M., & Molinaro, N. (2021). Impaired neural response to speech edges in dyslexia. Cortex, 135, 207-218. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.033

Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Baldin, V., Pérez-Navarro, J., Lallier, M., & Ríos-López, P. (2021). Speech-brain phase coupling is enhanced in low contextual semantic predictability conditions. Neuropsychologia, 156. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107830

Ostiz-Blanco, M., Bernacer, J., Garcia-Arbizu, I., Diaz-Sanchez, P., Rello, L., Lallier, M., & Arrondo, G. (2021). Improving Reading Through Videogames and Digital Apps: A Systematic Review. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.652948

2020

Bourguignon, M., Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Taulu, S., Jousmäki, V., Lallier, M., Carreiras, M., & De Tiège, X. (2020). Neocortical activity tracks the hierarchical linguistic structures of self-produced speech during reading aloud. Neuroimage, 216. Doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116788

Destoky, F., Bertels, J., Niesen, M., Wens, V., Ghinst, M.V., Leybaert, J., Lallier, M., Ince, R.A.A., Gross, J., de Tiège, X., & Bourguignon, M. (2020). Cortical tracking of speech in noise accounts for reading strategies in children. Plos Biology, 18(8). Doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000840

Ríos-López, P., Molinaro, N., Bourguignon, M., & Lallier, M. (2020). Development of neural oscillatory activity in response to speech in children from 4 to 6 years old. Developmental Science, 23(6). Doi:10.1111/desc.12947

2019

Antzaka, A., Acha, J., Carreiras, M., & Lallier, M. (2019). Does the visual attention span play a role in the morphological processing of orthographic stimuli?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(7), 1704-1716. Doi:10.1177/1747021818806470

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., & Molinaro, N. (2019). Phase−amplitude coupling between theta and gamma oscillations adapts to speech rate. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1453(1), 140-152. Doi:10.1111/nyas.14099

Ríos-López, P., Molinaro, N., & Lallier, M. (2019). Tapping to a beat in synchrony predicts brain print sensitivity in pre-readers. Brain and Language, 199. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104693

Valdois, S., Lassus-Sangosse, D., Lallier, M., Moreaud, O., & Pisella, L. (2019). What bilateral damage of the superior parietal lobes tells us about visual attention disorders in developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia, 130, 78-91. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.08.001

2018

Antzaka, A., Martin, C., Caffarra, S., Schlöffel, S., Carreiras, M., & Lallier, M. (2018). The effect of orthographic depth on letter string processing: the case of visual attention span and rapid automatized naming. Reading and Writing, 31(3), 583-605. Doi:10.1007/s11145-017-9799-0

Lallier, M., Abu Mallouh, R., Mohammed, A.M., Khalifa, B., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2018). Does the Visual Attention Span Play a Role in Reading in Arabic?. Scientific Studies of Reading, 22(2), 181-190. Doi:10.1080/10888438.2017.1421958

Lallier, M., Thierry, G., Barr, P., Carreiras, M., & Tainturier, M.J. (2018). Learning to Read Bilingually Modulates the Manifestations of Dyslexia in Adults. Scientific Studies of Reading, 22(4), 335-349. Doi:10.1080/10888438.2018.1447942

Ostiz-Blanco, M., Lallier, M., Grau, S., Rello, L., Bigham, J.P., & Carreiras, M. (2018). Jellys: Towards a videogame that trains rhythm and visual attention for dyslexia. Assets 2018 Proceedings of the 20th International ACM Sigaccess Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 447-449. Doi:10.1145/3234695.3241028

Dresler, T., Bugden, S., Gouet, C., Lallier, M., Oliveira, D.G., Pinheiro-Chagas, P., Pires, A.C., Wang, Y., Zugarramurdi, C., & Weissheimer, J. (2018). A Translational Framework of Educational Neuroscience in Learning Disorders. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 12. Doi:10.3389/fnint.2018.00025

Lallier, M. (2018). Auditory attention, theory of dynamic attending and developmental dyslexia. ANAE Approche Neuropsychologique Des Apprentissages Chez L Enfant, 30(157), 707-714.

Lallier, M., & Carreiras, M. (2018). Cross-linguistic transfer in bilinguals reading in two alphabetic orthographies: The grain size accommodation hypothesis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 25(1), 386-401. Doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1273-0

2017

Antzaka, A., Lallier, M., Meyer, S., Diard, J., Carreiras, M., & Valdois, S. (2017). Enhancing reading performance through action video games: The role of visual attention span. Scientific Reports, 7(1). Doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15119-9

Caffarra, S., Martin, C.D., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Zarraga, A., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEG evidence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 21-32. Doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.01.002

Ríos-López, P., Molnar, M.T., Lizarazu, M., & Lallier, M. (2017). The role of slow speech amplitude envelope for speech processing and reading development. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01497

Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Bourguignon, M., & Carreiras, M. (2017). Amodal Atypical Neural Oscillatory Activity in Dyslexia: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Clinical Psychological Science, 5(2), 379-401. Doi:10.1177/2167702616670119

2016

Awadh, F.H.R., Phénix, T., Antzaka, A., Lallier, M., Carreiras, M., & Valdois, S. (2016). Cross-language modulation of visual attention span: An Arabic-French-Spanish comparison in skilled adult readers. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(MAR). Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00307

Lallier, M., Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Cross-linguistic interactions influence reading development in bilinguals: A comparison between early balanced French-Basque and Spanish-Basque bilingual children. Developmental Science, 19(1), 76-89. Doi:10.1111/desc.12290

Molinaro, N., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Bourguignon, M., & Carreiras, M. (2016). Out-of-synchrony speech entrainment in developmental dyslexia. Human Brain Mapping, 37(8), 2767-2783. Doi:10.1002/hbm.23206

2015

Berger, C., Valdois, S., Lallier, M., & Donnadieu, S. (2015). Age-Related Changes in Temporal Allocation of Visual Attention: Evidence From the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) Paradigm. Journal of Cognition and Development, 16(1), 129-143. Doi:10.1080/15248372.2013.824882

Donnadieu, S., Berger, C., Lallier, M., Marendaz, C., & Laurent, A. (2015). Is the impairment in temporal allocation of visual attention in children with ADHD related to a developmental delay or a structural cognitive deficit?. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 36, 384-395. Doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2014.10.014

Duñabeitia, J.A., Lallier, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., & Carreiras, M. (2015). The Impact of Literacy on Position Uncertainty. Psychological Science, 26(4), 548-550. Doi:10.1177/0956797615569890

Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., Bourguignon, M., Paz-Alonso, P.M., Lerma-Usabiaga, G., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Developmental evaluation of atypical auditory sampling in dyslexia: Functional and structural evidence. Human Brain Mapping, 36(12), 4986-5002. Doi:10.1002/hbm.22986

Pagnotta, M.F., Zouridakis, G., Li, L., Lizarazu, M., Lallier, M., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Low frequency overactivation in dyslexia: Evidence from resting state Magnetoencephalography. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBS, 2015-November, 6959-6962. Doi:10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319993

2014

Lallier, M., Valdois, S., Lassus-Sangosse, D., Prado, C., & Kandel, S. (2014). Impact of orthographic transparency on typical and atypical reading development: Evidence in French-Spanish bilingual children. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 35(5), 1177-1190. Doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2014.01.021

Molnar, M., Lallier, M., & Carreiras, M. (2014). The amount of language exposure determines nonlinguistic tone grouping biases in infants from a bilingual environment. Language Learning, 64(SUPPL.2), 45-64. Doi:10.1111/lang.12069

Valdois, S., Peyrin, C., Lassus-Sangosse, D., Lallier, M., Démonet, J.F., & Kandel, S. (2014). Dyslexia in a French-Spanish bilingual girl: Behavioural and neural modulations following a visual attention span intervention. Cortex, 53(1), 120-145. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2013.11.006

Goswami, U., Power, A.J., Lallier, M., & Facoetti, A. (2014). Oscillatory “temporal sampling” and developmental dyslexia: Toward an over-arching theoretical framework. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(November). Doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00904

2013

Lallier, M., Carreiras, M., Tainturier, M.J., Savill, N., & Thierry, G. (2013). Orthographic transparency modulates the grain size of orthographic processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence from bilingualism. Brain Research, 1505, 47-60. Doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2013.02.018

Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (2013). Investigating the role of visual and auditory search in reading and developmental dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience(SEP). Doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00597

Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (2013). Developmental dyslexia: Exploring how much phonological and visual attention span disorders are linked to simultaneous auditory processing deficits. Annals of Dyslexia, 63(2), 97-116. Doi:10.1007/s11881-012-0074-4

Lallier, M., Thierry, G., & Tainturier, M.J. (2013). On the importance of considering individual profiles when investigating the role of auditory sequential deficits in developmental dyslexia. Cognition, 126(1), 121-127. Doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.008

2012

Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Démonet, J.F., Pernet, C., Baciu, M., Le Bas, J.F., & Valdois, S. (2012). Neural dissociation of phonological and visual attention span disorders in developmental dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports. Brain and Language, 120(3), 381-394. Doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.015

2011

Lallier, M. (2011). Orthographic transparency shapes visual attention underlying orthographic encoding: The Case of Welsh-English bilingualism.. Annales de la fondation Fyssen, 26, 44-52.

2010

Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., Berger, C., & Valdois, S. (2010). A case study of developmental phonological dyslexia: Is the attentional deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences amodal?. Cortex, 46(2), 231-241. Doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.014

Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., & Valdois, S. (2010). Visual attentional blink in dyslexic children: Parameterizing the deficit. Vision Research, 50(18), 1855-1861. Doi:10.1016/j.visres.2010.06.006

Lallier, M., Tainturier, M.J., Dering, B., Donnadieu, S., Valdois, S., & Thierry, G. (2010). Behavioral and ERP evidence for amodal sluggish attentional shifting in developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia, 48(14), 4125-4135. Doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.027

2009

Lallier, M., Thierry, G., Tainturier, M.J., Donnadieu, S., Peyrin, C., Billard, C., & Valdois, S. (2009). Auditory and visual stream segregation in children and adults: An assessment of the amodality assumption of the 'sluggish attentional shifting' theory of dyslexia. Brain Research, 1302, 132-147. Doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.037

2026

DISORDERED-SPEECH: Early Identification of Dyslexia and DLD using Speech Production Measures with Children: An Innovative Cross-Language Approach.

Program: ERC-2024-ADG_101199408
Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
01/2026- 12/2030
Funding: 275.000 €
PI: Usha Goswami (2.500.000 €) Project coordinator in Spain: Marie Lallier (275.000 €)

2025

BIBALANCE: Early bilingualism boosts the brain's resilience to dyslexia

Program: ERC-2024-CoG-101170337
Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
09/2025- 08/2030
Funding: 2.000.000 €
PI: Marie Lallier

2023

Ritmos que leen: Impacto de una intervención musical-rítmica temprana en el desarollo de la lectura

Program: BECAS LEONARDO a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales, LEO23-2-10134
Funding agency: Fundación BBVA
09/2023- 03/2025
Funding: 40.000 €
PI: Marie Lallier
BILREADy: La exposición temprana a dos idiomas fomenta la lectura: Un enfoque de investigación traslacional

Program: PID2022-136989OB-I00
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
09/2023- 08/2026
Funding: 125.625 €
PI: Marie Lallier

2022

Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa: BCBL

Program: CEX2020-001010-S
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2022- 12/2025
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras Guarantors: Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Cesar Caballero-Gaudes, Brendan Costello, Marina Kalashnikova, Marie Lallier, Nicola Molinaro, Carmen Vidaurre, Arthur G. Samuel, Clara Martin, & Efthymia Kapnoula.

2019

VISOSCIL: Does visual oscillatory activity in the alpha band contribute to typical and atypical reading development? A focus on visual

Program: RTI2018-096242-B-I00
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2019- 12/2021
Funding: 60.000 €
PI: Marie Lallier

2017

The specific language impairment (SLI) in bilingual children: neurobiological markers

Program: RED I+D 2017, EXP.99/17
Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
09/2017- 09/2018
Funding: 25.620 €
PI: Marie Lallier & Nicola Molinaro

2016

Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa: BCBL

Program: SEV-2015-0490
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2016- 12/2019
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras Guarantors: Arthur Samuel, David Soto, Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Mari Cruz Rodriguez-Oroz, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso, Doug Davidson, Simona Mancini & Loretxu Bergouignan
DICHOBIL: La escucha dicótica: una ventana al desarrollo lector bilingüe

Program: PSI2015-65338-P
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2016- 12/2018
Funding: 52.900 €
PI: Marie Lallier

2013

DYSOCIL: Atypical oscillatory brain activity, temporal processing deficits and developmental dyslexia: What are the links?

Program: PSI2012-32128
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
01/2013- 12/2015
Funding: 50.000 €
PI: Marie Lallier

2008

Cognicion y Educacion - COEDUCA - CONSOLIDER INGENIO-2010 CSD2008-00048

Program: Cognicion y Educacion (COEDUCA), CSD2008-00048
Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
12/2008- 12/2013
Funding: 4.000.000 €
PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso & Simona Mancini

ERC Consolidator Grant (01/09/2025 - 31/08/2030), European Research Council. Spain, .

Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación (2023 - 2027), Agencia Estatal de Investigación. BCBL, Spain.

Becas Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales (2023 - 2025), BBVA foundation. BCBL, Donostia.

Apoyo y Acreditación de Centros de Excelencia «Severo Ochoa» y a Unidades de Excelencia (2022 - 2025), MINECO. BCBL, Spain.

Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación (2019 - 2023), MINECO. BCBL, Spain.

Ramon y Cajal Fellowship (04/2017 - 07/2022), Spanish Ministry. BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián.

Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación (2016 - 2019), MINECO. BCBL, Spain.

Apoyo y Acreditación de Centros de Excelencia «Severo Ochoa» y a Unidades de Excelencia (2016 - 2019), MINECO. BCBL, Spain.

Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación (2013 - 2016), MINECO. BCBL, Spain.

Marie Curie Fellowship (2011 - 2013), European Commission. BCBL, Spain.

Fyssen Foundation Fellowship (2010 - 2011), Fyssen Foundation. Bangor University, Wales, UK.

In progress

Development of an EEG neurofeedback protocole to boost hemispheric rebalance in children with dyslexia University of the Basque Country (2024 - 2028)

Bilingual hemispheric rebalance and its role in typical reading acquisition University of the Basque Country (2022 - 2026)

Defended

Cross-modal semantic context boosts optimal reading at different stages of reading development and in different orthographies. University of the Basque Country (2019 - 2023)

The role of quantity and quality of linguistic exposure on language development during childhood University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2017 - 2022)

The role of metacognition in reading acquisition University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2017 - 2021)

Jellys: Desarrollo y evaluación de un videojuego para mejorar la lectura en niños con dislexia a través del entrenamiento rítmico y de la atención visual Universidad de Navarra (2015 - 2019)

Investigation of the Development of Neural and Behavioural Auditory Rhythmic Sensitivity and of its Contribution to Reading Acquisition University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2014 - 2018)

The visual attention span as a measure of orthographic grain size: effects of orthographic depth and morphological complexity University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2013 - 2018)

Speech-brain synchronization: a possible cause for developmental dyslexia University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU (2013 - 2017)