Manuscripts In Preparation
Thompson, G.L., & Desrochers, A. (in prep). 'Pumping Iron': Lifting heavy weight as a special
case of general motor control processes.
Brasgold, M., Gagnon, S., Thompson, G.L., & Quann, V. (in prep) An examination of memory for
bound features: Is binding resource-demanding?
Thompson, G.L., & Desrochers, A. (in prep). Reliance on phonology as correlate of syllable preference in
visual word recognition. PhD work.
Thompson, G.L., & Desrochers, A. (in prep). Reliance on phonological and semantic feedback moderates
syllable preference in visual word recognition. PhD work.
Thompson, G.L., & Desrochers, A. (in prep). Boundedness and the BOSS: A failure to replicate Taft (2001).
PhD work.
Thompson, G.L., Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., & Grouzet, F.M.E. (in prep). Oral reading performance of
Francophone children across the primary grades. To be submitted to Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology.
Desrochers, A., Thompson, G. L., Fr�chette, S., & Saint-Aubin, J. La s�lection des stimuli exp�rimentaux pour
la recherche en science cognitive : consid�rations m�thodologiques et statistiques. To be submitted to
Revue canadienne de psychologie exp�rimentale.
Desrochers, A., Liceras, J., Fernandez-Fuertes, R., & Thompson, G.L. (in prep). Detecting rule violations in
the structure of Spanish deverbal compound words. To be submitted to Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Submitted Manuscripts
Desrochers, A., Liceras, J., Fernandez-Fuertes, R., & Thompson, G.L. (in prep). Subjective frequency norms
for 330 Spanish compound and simple words. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Published- Refereed Journal
Thompson, G.L., & Desrochers, A., (in press). Corroborating biased indicators: Global and local
agreement among objective and subjective estimates of printed word frequency. Behavior
Research Methods.
Desrochers, A., Kirby, J. R., Thompson, G. L., & Fr�chette, S. (in press). Le role de la
conscience phonologique dans l'apprentissage de la lecture. Revue du Nouvel Ontario.
Desrochers, A., & Thompson, G.L. (in press). Subjective frequency and imageability ratings for
3,600 French nouns. Behavior Research Methods.
Gonthier, I., Desrochers, A., Thompson, G., & Landry, F. (in press). Normes d'imagerie et de fr�quence
subjective pour 1 760 mots de la langue fran�aise. Canadian Journal of Experimental
Psychology.
Desrochers, A., Kirby, J., & Thompson, G. (2008). Le d�veloppement de la lecture orale chez
l'enfant. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 49, 111-117.
Thompson, G.L., (2007). Eliminating aggregation bias in experimental research: Random Coefficient
Analysis as an alternative to performing a 'by-subjects' and/or 'by-items' ANOVA. Tutorials in
Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 4, 21-34.
Thompson, G. L. (2006). An SPSS implementation of the non-recursive outlier deletion procedure
with shifting z-score criterion (Van Selst & Jolicoeur, 1994). Behavior Research Methods, 38,
344-352.
Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., & Thompson, G. L. (2005). Sensibilit� phonologique et apprentissage
de la lecture. Revue PArole, 34-35-36, 113-138.
Thompson, G. L., & Kunto, S. (2004). From phonemes to meaning: John Steinbeck's work
examined. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 98, 785-792.
Published- Book Chapters & Conference Proceedings
Desrochers, A., Thompson, G. L., & Fr�chette, S. (in press). The Impact of Information Technology on the
Selection of Lexical Items for Research in Human Experimental Psychology. In F. Columbus (Ed.),
Advances in Psychological Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Desrochers, A., & Thompson, G. (2008). De l'orthographe � la lecture orale. In A. Desrochers, F. Martineau,
& C.-Y. Morin (Eds.), Orthographe fran�aise : �volution et pratique (pp. 295-330). Ottawa: �ditions David.
Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., Thompson, G., & Grouzet, F. (2005). L�apprentissage des graph�mes
du fran�ais � l��cole primaire. In Billi�res, M., Spanghero-Gaillard, N, & Gaillard, D., Actes du
colloque international de didactique cognitive, pp. 138-143. Toulouse:Universit� de Toulouse-Le
Mirail.
Thompson, G., Desrochers, A., Marchand, A., & Cormier, P. (June 2008). Determinants of letter
knowledge in French-speaking children. Paper presented during the symposium on early literacy
development at annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax, New Brunswick.
*Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (June 2007). Local Discrepancies Between Objective and
Subjective Estimates of Printed Word Frequency. Poster presented at the 6th annual Canadian
Language and Literacy Research network conference. Calgary, Alberta.
*Won Best Poster, Doctoral/Post-doc level ($500)
Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (June 2007). Syllable-like Units in Visual Word Recognition: Accounting
for Preference. Poster presented at the annual Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) conference,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (March 2007). What determines preference for syllable-like units in visual
word recognition? Paper presented at the Annual Psychoshorts conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (October 2006). The Relationship between Homophone Effects and
Syllable Preference in Visual Lexical Decision is Frequency Dependent. Poster presented at the fifth
international Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, Quebec.
Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (2006, June). Frequency Modulates the Relationship Between Homophone
Effects and Syllable Preference. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Scientific Conference of the
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet), Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada.
Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (2006, June). Using SPSS as your primary database management tool.
Workshop presented at the 5th Annual Scientific Conference of the Canadian Language and Literacy
Research Network (CLLRNet), Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada.
Thompson, G. L., & Desrochers, A. (2005, July). Are Syllable and Homophone Effects in Lexical Decision
Related? Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Canadian society for Brain, Behavior, and
Cognitive Science (BBCS), Montreal, Canada.
Thompson, G., Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., & Grouzet, F. (June 2005). A multi-level analysis of French
word decoding in oral reading. Paper presented at the the 4th Annual Scientific Conference of the
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, Toronto, Ontario.
Thompson, G. L., & Desrochers, (2005, March). Implicit Learning of French Noun Endings-to-Gender class
relations: Evidence for a Non-Linear Decision Process in a Nonword Classification Task. Paper
presented at Cognitio 2005, Montreal, Canada.
Thompson, G., Desrochers, A., & Cormier, P. (2004, June).The latent factor structure of letter- string
decoding in french children is consistent with a dual route model of reading aloud . Poster session
presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network
(CLLRNet), Montr�al, Canada.
Thompson, G., Cormier, P., & Desrochers, A.. (2004, May). Development of a multi-component test battery
for the assessment of French reading skills. Paper presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Canadian
Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), Winnipeg, Canada.
Thompson, G., & Desrochers, A. (2003, June). The role of word imageability in word recognition. Poster
session presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive
Science (BBCS), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Thompson, G., Desrochers, A., & Landry, F. (2002, November). L�interaction entre la fr�quence
d�occurence et la valeur d�imagerie des mots en d�cision lexicale. Poster session presented at the 25th
annual meeting of the Soci�t� Qu�b�coise pour la Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP), Trois Rivi�res,
Qu�bec, Canada.
Coauthorship
Desrochers, A., Thompson, G., Marchard, A., & Cormier, P. (July 2008). The development of alphabetic
knowledge among French-speaking children over the primary grades. Paper presented during the
symposium �New perspectives on young children�s acquisition and application of alphabetic knowledge�,
Annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
Desrochers, A., Thompson, G., Cormier, P., Barnes, M., & Kirby, J. (June 2007) An Iterative Approach to
the Development of Reading Assessment Measures. Poster presented at the 6th annual Canadian
Language and Literacy Research network conference. Calgary, Alberta.
Desrochers, A., & Thompson, G. (March 2007). Print-to-sound consistency in the oral reading of French:
Evidence from children and adult data, Keynote address presented at the Annual Psychoshorts
conference, Ottawa, Ontario.
Desrochers, A., & Thompson, G. (October 2006). Modulation of Noun-Frequency Effects in Gender
Decision. Poster presented at the fifth international Mental Lexicon Conference, Montreal, Quebec.
Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., & Thompson, G. (June 2006). Le d�veloppement normal des comp�tences en
lecture du fran�ais chez les �l�ves de la maternelle � la sixi�me ann�e du primaire. Paper presented at the
Annual Conference of the Ordre des orthophonistes et des audiologistes du Qu�bec, Gatineau, Qu�bec.
Desrochers, A., & Thompson, G. (2006, June). Segmentation Skills in Oral Reading are Related to
Grammatical Sensitivity. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Scientific Conference of the Canadian
Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet), Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada.
Brasgold, M., Gagnon, S., & Thompson, G. L. (2006, July). An Examination of Memory for Complex
Events and the Role of Binding. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Canadian society for
Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science (BBCS), Saskatoon.
Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., Thompson, G., & Grouzet, F. E. (2005, June) The Development of Alphabetic
Knowledge through the Primary Grades: Evidence from French. Poster presented at the twelfth annual
meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Toronto, Canada.
Desrochers, A., Cormier, P., Thompson, G. & Grouzet, F. E. (2005, January). L�apprentissage des
graph�mes du fran�ais � l��cole primaire. Paper presented at the first meeting of the Congr�s Annuel
Didactique Cognitive, Toulouse, France.
Desrochers, A., Thompson, G., & Cormier, P. (2004, June). The development of grapheme knowledge in
french speaking elementary school children: effects of length and consistency. Poster session presented
at the 3rd annual meeting of the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network (CLLRNet),
Montr�al, Canada.