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Main research articles
Under review
Havron, N., Ramus, F., Heude, B., Forhan, A., Cristia, A., & Peyre, H. (submitted). The effect of siblings on language development as a function of age difference and sex.
Peyre H., Albaret, J. M., Bernard, J. Y., Hoertel, N., Melchior, M., Forhan, A., Taine, M., Heude, B., De Agostini, M., Galéra, C., & Ramus, F. (submitted). Developmental trajectories of fine motor skills during the preschool period.
Latimier, A., Riegert, A., Peyre, H., Ly, S. T., Casati, R., & Ramus, F. (submitted). Does pre-testing promote better retention than post-testing ?
In press
Couvignou, M., Peretz, I., & Ramus, F. (in press). Comorbidity and cognitive overlap between developmental dyslexia and congenital amusia. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Gialluisi, A., Andlauer, T. F., Mirza-Schreiber, N., Moll, K., Becker, J., Hoffmann, P., … Schulte-Körne, G. (in press). Genome Wide Association Scan identifies new variants associated with a cognitive predictor of dyslexia. Translational Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1101/309336
Published
Lou, C., Duan, X., Altarelli, I., Sweeney, J. A., Ramus, F., &
Zhao, J. (2019). White matter network connectivity deficits in
developmental dyslexia. Human Brain Mapping, 40(2), 505‑516.
Peyre,
H., Hoertel, N., Bernard, J. Y., Rouffignac, C., Forhan, A., Taine, M.,
… Ramus, F. (2019). Sex differences in psychomotor development during
the preschool period: A longitudinal study of the effects of
environmental factors and of emotional, behavioral, and social
functioning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 369‑384.
Guez, A., Peyre, H., Le Cam, M., Gauvrit, N., & Ramus, F. (2018). Are high-IQ students more at risk of school failure? Intelligence, 71, 32‑40.

Guez, A., Panaïotis, T., Peyre, H., & Ramus, F. (2018). Predictors of the IQ-achievement gap in France: A longitudinal analysis. Intelligence, 69, 104‑116.

Su, M., Zhao, J., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Zhou, W., Gong, G., Ramus, F., & Shu, H. (2018). Alterations in white matter pathways underlying phonological and morphological processing in Chinese developmental dyslexia. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 11‑19.

Ramus, F., Altarelli, I., Jednoróg, K.,
Zhao, J., & Scotto di Covella, L. (2018). Neuroanatomy of
developmental dyslexia: Pitfalls and promise. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 84, 434‑452.
Ramus, F. (2017). General intelligence is an emerging property, not an evolutionary puzzle. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 43-44. [Commentary]
Peyre, H., Charkaluk, M.-L., Forhan, A., Heude, B., & Ramus, F.
(2017). Do developmental milestones at 4, 8, 12 and 24 months predict
IQ at 5–6 years old? Results of the EDEN mother–child cohort. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 21(2), 272‑279.
Płoński,
P., Gradkowski, W., Altarelli, I., Monzalvo, K., Van Ermingen-Marbach,
M., Grande, M., . . . , Ramus, F., & Jednoróg, K. (2017).
Multi-parameter machine learning approach to the neuroanatomical basis
of developmental dyslexia. Human Brain Mapping, 38(2), 900‑908.
Forgeot d’Arc, B., Delorme, R., Zalla, T., Lefebvre, A., Amsellem,
F., Moukawane, S., . . . Ramus, F. (2017). Gaze Direction Detection
in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism, 21(1), 100-107.
Su, M., Peyre, H., Song, S., McBride, C., Tardif, T., Li, H., Zhang,
Y., Liang, W., Zhang, Z., Ramus, F., Shu, H. (2017). The influence of
early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in
Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11. Learning and Instruction, 49, 54–63.
Peyre, H., Galera, C., van der Waerden, J., Hoertel, N., Bernard, J.
Y., Melchior, M., & Ramus, F. (2016). Relationship between early
language skills and the development of inattention/hyperactivity
symptoms during the preschool period: Results of the EDEN mother-child
cohort. BMC Psychiatry, 16, 380. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1091-3
Peyre,
H., Bernard, J. Y., Hoertel, N., Forhan, A., Charles, M.-A., De
Agostini, M., … Ramus, F. (2016). Differential effects of
determinants of
cognitive development on verbal and nonverbal skills at the age of 5-6
years in the EDEN mother-child cohort. Cognitive Development, 40, 152–162.
Roux, P., Smith, P., Passerieux, C., & Ramus, F. (2016).
Preserved implicit mentalizing in schizophrenia despite poor explicit
performance: evidence from eye tracking. Scientific Reports, 6, 34728. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34728
Saksida,
A., Iannuzzi, S., Bogliotti, C., Chaix, Y., Démonet, J. F., Bricout, L., . . . Ramus, F. (2016). Phonological
skills, visual attention span, and visual stress in developmental dyslexia:
insights from a population of French children. Developmental
Psychology, 52(10), 1503–1516.
Hippolyte, L., Maillard, A. M., Rodriguez-Herreros, B., Pain, A.,
Martin, S., Ferrari, C., . . . Ramus, F., Beckmann, J., Draganski, B.,
Reymond, A., Jacquemont, S. (2016). The number of genomic copies at
the 16p11.2 locus modulates language, verbal memory and inhibition. Biological Psychiatry, 80(2), 129-139.
Szenkovits, G., Darma, Q., Darcy,
I., & Ramus, F. (2016). Exploring dyslexics’ phonological deficit II:
phonological grammar. First Language, 36(3), 316–337.
Forgeot d’Arc,
B., Ramus, F., Lefebvre,
A., Brottier, D., Zalla, T., Moukawane, S., . . . Delorme, R. (2016).
Atypical Social Judgment and Sensitivity to Perceptual Cues in Autism
Spectrum Disorders. Journal
of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46¸
1574-1581.
Roux, P., Brunet-Gouet, E., Passerieux, C., & Ramus, F. (2016).
Eyetracking reveals a slowdown of social context processing during
intention attribution in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 41(2), E13-E21.
Peyre, H., Ramus, F., Melchior, M., Forhan, A., Heude, B., &
Gauvrit, N. (2016). Emotional, behavioral and social difficulties among
high-IQ children during the preschool period: Results of the EDEN
mother-child cohort. Personality and Individual Differences, 94, 366-371.
Zhao, J., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Altarelli, I., Dubois, J.,
& Ramus, F. (2016). Altered hemispheric lateralization of white
matter tracts in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from spherical
deconvolution tractography. Cortex, 76, 51-62.
Martinaud,
O., Pouliquen, D., Parain, D., Goldenberg, A., Gérardin, E., Hannequin,
D., Altarelli, I., Ramus, F., Hertz-Pannier, L., Dehaene-Lambertz, G.,
Cohen, L. (2015). Impaired functional differentiation for
categories of objects in the ventral visual stream: a case of
developmental visual impairment. Neuropsychologia, 77, 52-61.
Jednoróg, K., Marchewka, A., Altarelli, I., Monzalvo, K., van
Ermingen-Marbach, M., Grande, M., Grabowska, A., Heim, S., &
Ramus,
F. (2015). How reliable are grey matter disruptions in specific
reading disability across multiple countries and languages? Insights
from a large-scale voxel-based morphometry study. Human Brain Mapping, 36(5), 1741-1754.
Roux,
P., Passerieux, C., & Ramus, F. (2015). An eyetracking
investigation of intentional motion perception in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatry and
Neuroscience, 40(2), 118-125.
Ramus, F.
(2014). Should there really be a “Dyslexia debate”? Brain, 137,
3371-3374.
Altarelli,
I., Leroy, F., Monzalvo, K., Fluss, J., Billard, C., Dehaene-Lambertz,
G., . . . Ramus, F. (2014). Planum temporale asymmetry in developmental
dyslexia: revisiting an old question. Human Brain Mapping,
35, 5717-5735.
Roux,
P., Forgeot d’Arc, B., Passerieux, C., & Ramus, F. (2014). Is
the
Theory of Mind deficit observed in visual paradigms in schizophrenia
explained by an impaired attention toward gaze orientation? Schizophrenia Research,
157, 78-83.
Agus, T. R., Carrión Castillo, A., Pressnitzer, D., &
Ramus, F.
(2014). Perceptual learning of acoustic noise by dyslexic individuals. Journal of Speech, Language and
Hearing Research, 57, 1069-1077.
Ramus, F. (2014). Neuroimaging sheds new light on the
phonological deficit in dyslexia. Trends
in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 274-275.
Becker,
J., Czamara, D., Scerri, T. S., Ramus, F., Csépe, V., Talcott,
J. B., . . . Schumacher, J. (2014). Genetic analysis of dyslexia
candidate genes in the European cross-linguistic NeuroDys cohort. European Journal of Human
Genetics, 22, 675-680.
Peyre,
H., Bernard, J. Y., Forhan, A., Charles, M.-A., De Agostini, M., Heude,
B., & Ramus, F. (2014). Predicting changes in language skills
between 2 and 3 years in the EDEN mother–child cohort. PeerJ, 2, e335.
doi: 10.7717/peerj.335
Moll,
K., Ramus, F., Bartling, J., Bruder, J., Kunze, S., Neuhoff, N., . . .
Landerl, K. (2014). Cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and
spelling development in five European orthographies. Learning and Instruction,
29, 65-77.
Ramus, F.
(2013). What's the point of neuropsychoanalysis? British Journal of Psychiatry,
203, 170-171.
Followed by comments and by:
Ramus, F. (2013). Author’s reply. British
Journal of Psychiatry, 203, 390-391.
Lehongre,
K., Morillon, B., Giraud, A. L., & Ramus, F. (2013). Impaired
auditory sampling in dyslexia: Further evidence from combined fMRI and
EEG. Frontiers in Human
Neuroscience, 7,
454. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00454
Altarelli, I., Monzalvo, K., Iannuzzi, S., Fluss, J., Billard,
C.,
Ramus, F., & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. (2013). A functionally guided
approach to the morphometry of occipito-temporal regions in
developmental dyslexia: evidence for differential effects in boys and
girls. The Journal of
Neuroscience, 33(27), 11296-11301.
Landerl,
K.*, Ramus, F.*, Moll, K., Lyytinen, H., Leppänen, P. H. T., Lohvansuu,
K., . . . Schulte-Körne, G. (2013). Predictors of developmental
dyslexia in European orthographies with varying complexity. Journal of Child Psychology and
Psychiatry, 54(6), 686-694. *equal contributors
Ramus,
F., Marshall,
C. R., Rosen, S., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2013). Phonological
deficits in specific language impairment and developmental dyslexia:
towards a multidimensional model. Brain,
136(2), 630-645.
(including supplementary data)
Giraud, A. L., & Ramus, F. (2013). Neurogenetics and
auditory processing in developmental dyslexia. Current Opinion in Neurobiology,
23(1), 37-42.
Roux, P., Passerieux, C.,
& Ramus, F. (2013). Kinematics matters: a new eye-tracking
investigation of animated triangles. Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 66(2), 229-244.
Ramus,
F., & Ahissar, M. (2012). Developmental dyslexia: the
difficulties
of interpreting poor performance, and the importance of normal
performance. Cognitive
Neuropsychology, 29(1-2), 104-122.
Jednoróg, K.*, Altarelli, I.*,
Monzalvo, K., Fluss, J., Dubois, J., Billard, C., Dehaene-Lambertz, G.,
& Ramus, F. (2012). The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on
Children’s Brain Structure. PLoS ONE, 7(8),
e42486. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042486.
*equal contributors
Joly,
O., Pallier, C., Ramus, F., Pressnitzer, D., Vanduffel, W., &
Orban, G. A. (2012). Processing of vocalizations in humans and monkeys:
A comparative fMRI study. NeuroImage,
62, 1376-1389. [blog
feature]
Joly,
O., Ramus, F., Pressnitzer, D., Vanduffel, W., & Orban, G. A.
(2012). Interhemispheric differences in auditory processing revealed by
fMRI in awake rhesus monkeys. Cerebral
Cortex, 22, 838-853.
Lehongre,
K., Ramus, F., Villiermet, N., Schwartz, D., & Giraud,
A. L. (2011). Altered low-gamma sampling in auditory cortex accounts
for the three main facets of dyslexia. Neuron, 72(6),
1080-1090.
Forgeot
d'Arc, B., & Ramus, F. (2011). Belief attribution despite
verbal interference. Quarterly
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(5), 975-990.
Minagawa-Kawai,
Y., van der Lely, H. K. J., Ramus, F., Sato, Y., Mazuka, R., &
Dupoux, E. (2011). Optical brain imaging reveals auditory general and
language-specific processing in early infant development. Cerebral Cortex,
21, 254-261.

Soroli, E.,
Szenkovits, G., & Ramus, F. (2010). Exploring dyslexics'
phonological deficit III: Foreign speech perception and production. Dyslexia, 16,
318-340.
Ramus,
F., Peperkamp, S., Christophe, A., Jacquemot, C., Kouider, S.,
&
Dupoux, E. (2010). A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of
phonology. In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. d'Imperio & N. Vallée
(Eds.), Laboratory
Phonology 10: Variation, Phonetic Detail and
Phonological Representation (pp. 311-340). Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.
Darcy,
I., Ramus, F., Christophe, A., Kinzler, K., & Dupoux, E.
(2009).
Phonological knowledge in compensation for native and non-native
assimilation. In F. Kügler, C. Féry & R. van de Vijver (Eds.), Variation and Gradience in
Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 265-309). Berlin: Mouton De
Gruyter.
Marshall, C. R.,
Harcourt-Brown, S., Ramus, F., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009).
The
link between prosody and language skills in children with specific
language impairment (SLI) and/or dyslexia. International Journal of
Language and Communication Disorders, 44(4), 466-488.
Järvinen-Pasley,
A., Wallace, G. L., Ramus, F., Happé, F., & Heaton, P. (2008).
Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism. Developmental Science, 11(1),
109-121.
Ramus,
F., & Szenkovits, G. (2008). What phonological deficit? Quarterly Journal of
Experimental Psychology, 61(1), 129-141.
Reprinted
as: Ramus, F., & Szenkovits, G. (2008). What phonological
deficit?
In D. V. M. Bishop, M. J. Snowling & S.-J. Blakemore (Eds.), Neurocognitive approaches to
developmental disorders: A festschrift for Uta Frith (pp.
129-141). Hove: Psychology Press.
Galaburda,
A. M., LoTurco, J., Ramus, F., Fitch, R. H., & Rosen, G. D.
(2006).
From genes to behavior in developmental dyslexia. Nature Neuroscience, 9(10),
1213-1217.
(Spanish
translation)
Ramus,
F. (2006). Genes, brain,
and cognition: A roadmap for the cognitive scientist. Cognition, 101(2),
247-269.
(Introduction to a Cognition
Special Issue)
Milne,
E., White, S., Campbell,
R., Swettenham, J., Hansen, P. C., & Ramus, F. (2006). Motion
and
form coherence detection in autistic spectrum disorder: Relationship to
motor control and 2:4 digit ratio. Journal
of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(2), 225-237.
White,
S., Frith, U., Milne, E., Rosen, S., Swettenham, J., & Ramus,
F.
(2006). A double dissociation between sensorimotor impairments and
reading disability: A
comparison of autistic and dyslexic children. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(5),
748-761.
White,
S.,
Milne, E., Rosen,
S., Hansen, P. C., Swettenham, J., Frith, U., & Ramus, F.
(2006).
The role of sensorimotor impairments in dyslexia: A multiple case study
of dyslexic children. Developmental
Science, 9(3), 237-255.
Followed by
commentaries by Bishop, Goswami, Nicolson & Fawcett, and Tallal.
Followed by our reply: Ramus, F., White,
S., &
Frith, U.
(2006). Weighing the evidence between competing theories of dyslexia.
Developmental
Science,
9(3),
265-269.
Szenkovits,
G., & Ramus, F. (2005). Exploring dyslexics'
phonological deficit I: lexical vs. sub-lexical and input vs. output
processes. Dyslexia,
11(4),
253-268.
Ramus,
F. (2005). Motion
perception deficit: risk
factor or non-specific marker for neuro-developmental disorders? Cahiers de Psychologie
Cognitive/Current
Psychology of Cognition, 23(1-2), 180-188.
(Commentary on
Milne et al. 2005)
Tincoff,
R., Hauser, M., Tsao,
F., Spaepen, G.,
Ramus, F., & Mehler, J. (2005). The role of speech rhythm in
language discrimination: Further tests with a nonhuman primate. Developmental Science,
8(1), 26-35.
Ramus,
F. (2004). Neurobiology of dyslexia: A reinterpretation of the
data. Trends in
Neurosciences,
27(12), 720-726.
Ramus,
F.
(2004). Should neuroconstructivism guide
developmental
research? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8(3),
100-101. (Commentary
on Goswami
2003)
Ramus,
F., Dupoux, E., &
Mehler,
J. (2003). The psychological reality of rhythm classes: Perceptual
studies.
Paper presented at the 15th International Congress of
Phonetic
Sciences,
Barcelona, 3-9/08/03 (pp. 337-342).
Nazzi,
T. &
Ramus, F. (2003). Perception and
acquisition
of linguistic rhythm by infants. Speech Communication 41(1-2),
233-243.
Ramus,
F., Pidgeon, E.,
& Frith, U. (2003). The
relationship
between motor control and phonology in dyslexic children.
Journal of
Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44 (5), 712-722.
Ramus,
F. (2003).
Developmental
dyslexia: specific phonological deficit or general sensorimotor
dysfunction?
Current
Opinion in Neurobiology, 13(2), 212-218.
Ramus,
F., Rosen, S.,
Dakin, S. C., Day, B. L.,
Castellote,
J. M., White, S., & Frith, U. (2003). Theories of developmental
dyslexia:
Insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults. Brain,
126,
841-865.
(supplementary
material)
Ramus,
F. (2002). Evidence for
a
domain-specific deficit in developmental dyslexia. Behavioral
and
Brain
Sciences, 25(6), 767-768. (Commentary
on Thomas
&
Karmiloff-Smith
2002)
Ramus,
F. (2002).
Language discrimination by
newborns:
Teasing apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues. Annual
Review
of Language Acquisition, 2, 85-115.
Ramus,
F. (2002).
Acoustic correlates of linguistic
rhythm:
Perspectives. In Proceedings of Speech
Prosody 2002, Aix-en-Provence, 11-13/04/02 (pp.
115-120).
Ramus,
F. (2001).
Outstanding questions about
phonological
processing in dyslexia.
Dyslexia, 7, 197-216.
Ramus,
F. (2001).
Dyslexia - Talk of two theories. Nature,
412, 393-395.
Ramus,
F., Hauser, M.
D., Miller, C., Morris, D.,
&
Mehler, J. (2000). Language discrimination by human newborns and by
cotton-top
tamarin monkeys.
Science, 288, 349-351. (abstract
and reprint)(supplementary
material)
(reprinted in Tomasello,
M.,
& Bates, E. (Eds.). (2001). Language development: The essential
readings.
Oxford: Blackwell.)
Dominey,
P. F.,
& Ramus, F. (2000). Neural
Network
Processing of Natural Language: I. Sensitivity to Serial, Temporal and
Abstract Structure in the Infant. Language and Cognitive
Processes,
15(1),
87-127.
Ramus,
F., Nespor, M.,
& Mehler, J. (1999).
Correlates
of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal. Cognition, 73(3),
265-292.
Ramus,
F., &
Mehler, J. (1999). Language
identification
with suprasegmental cues: A study based on speech resynthesis. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, 105(1),
512-521.
Other papers
Ramus, F.,
& Collins, T. (2014). Training master students in cognitive
science. IEEE AMD Newsletter,
11(2), 7-8.
Altarelli, I., & Ramus,
F. (2014). Developmental Dyslexia. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe
(Eds.), Encyclopedia of
Language Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ramus, F. (2014). Os transtornos especificos da leitura. In F. Muratori & R. Lerner (Eds.), Os enlaces do corpo e da escrita: na criança e no adolescente (pp. 13-34). São Paulo: Instituto Langage.
Ramus, F. (2013). Dyslexia,
Phonological processing in. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind
(pp. 269-271). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ramus,
F. (2013). Genetic basis of language: insights from developmental
dyslexia. In J. J. Bolhuis & M. Everaert (Eds.), Birdsong,
Speech and Language: Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain
(pp. 471-485). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ramus, F. (2010). The phonological deficit at the heart of developmental dyslexia. In C. Rifkin (Ed.), Language Learning and Dyslexia (pp. 1-16). London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
Ramus, F., & Fisher, S. E. (2009). Genetics of
language. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences IV (pp.
855-871). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ramus, F., &
Szenkovits, G. (2009). Understanding the nature of the phonological
deficit. In K. R. Pugh & P. McCardle (Eds.), How
Children Learn To Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the
Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and
Dyslexia Research and Practice (pp. 153-169). New York:
Psychology Press.
Ramus,
F.
(2006). A
neurological model of dyslexia and other domain-specific developmental
disorders with an associated sensorimotor syndrome. In G. D. Rosen
(Ed.), The Dyslexic
Brain: New
Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery (pp. 75-101). Mahwah,
NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Ramus,
F. (2004). The neural
basis of reading acquisition. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences
(3rd
ed., pp. 815-824). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Johnson, E. K., Jusczyk, P. W., & Ramus, F. (2003). The role of segmental information in language discrimination by English-learning 5-month-olds. In D. Houston & A. Seidl & G. Hollich & E. Johnson & A. Jusczyk (Eds.), Jusczyk Lab Final Report. Retrieved from http://hincapie.psych.purdue.edu/Jusczyk.
Ramus, F., & Mehler, J. (2002). In praise of functional psychology. In A. M. Galaburda & S. M. Kosslyn & Y. Christen (Eds.), The Languages of the Brain (pp. 166-178). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bertram, C.D., Muller, M., Ramus, F. and Nugent, A.H. (2001). Measurements of steady turbulent flow through a rigid simulated collapsed tube. Med. & Biol. Eng. & Comput. 39(4), 422-427. (partly based on my final undergraduate project in fluid biomechanics back in 1995)
Mehler,
J., Christophe,
A., & Ramus, F. (2000).
How
infants acquire language: some preliminary observations. In A. Marantz,
Y. Miyashita, & W. O'Neil (Eds.), Image, Language,
Brain:
Papers
from the first Mind-Brain Articulation Project symposium (pp.
51-75).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Dominey, P. F., & Ramus, F. (1999). A neural network model of language classification based on prosodic structures. In F. Pellegrino (Ed.), De la caractérisation à l'identification des langues, Actes de la 1ère journée d'étude sur l'identification automatique des langues, Lyon, 19/01/1999 (pp. 202-212). Lyon : Editions de l'Institut des Sciences de l'Homme.