Who's we?
@hansopdebeeck.bsky.social, @olicolli.bsky.social and I; with the help of the lab members in both groups

To catch-up on the previous work, here's our studies on:
- the behavioural learning of visual Braille and line-based scripts doi.org/10.3758/s134...
- the brain organisation of VWFA and other reading areas processing words and the effect of expertise in visual Braille doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

How to assess the roles of vision and language to reading?

We studied how purely visual computational models for word and letter recognition processed visual Braille (⠉⠑⠗⠏⠑) and found that they don't replicate human behavioural / neural results, showing the need of language processing in reading

Once again, huge thanks to the co-supervisors @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social and @olicolli.bsky.social

Connecting the dots: Similar visual orthographic acquisition for Braille or line junctions - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Most written systems share basic shape features with natural objects such as line junctions, a commonality thought to be at the basis of fluent reading. Studies that compared reading acquisition for d...

Out now another piece of my PhD. In short, we show that learning a new script, with or without line junctions (├ v. ⠗), mostly relies on the linguistic mapping of one script to a pre-existing orthography, with limited contribution of the script's visual features
doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02788-1

Yep, that finally happened.
Thank you @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social and @olicolli.bsky.social for the great supervision over the years and to all the colleagues that accompanied me in this terrific experience