Research
Language comprehension and polyglotism
17/12/2012 - 18:21
How does the brain process words that have a positive or negative valence, and words
that have high or low arousal? Does foreign accent modulate the effects of emotional
language?...
07/02/2012 - 03:09
We are investigating the active of L2 comprehenders in sentence processing. In order to understand why sentence comprehension is slow and difficult in a second language, we...
07/02/2012 - 03:09
To get to another perspective of bilingualism effects, we are exploring how much speech comprehension is affected when a native listener is processing language produced by a non-native speaker....
Brain Basis of Bilingualism
07/02/2012 - 03:11
In this line of research we aim at advancing in our knowledge of how the brain handles two languages. We pay especial attention to the processes involved in language control...
07/02/2012 - 03:11
This project aims at testing to which extent bilingual language control mechanisms are subsidiary to those of the general-domain executive control. We use different tasks...
Cognitive implications of bilingualism
07/02/2012 - 03:10
In this line of research we assess the collateral effects that bilingualism may have for the linguistic and attentional systems of bilingual speakers. In particular, we focus...
07/02/2012 - 03:10
In this research line we explore the process of category acquisition in bilingual and monolingual preverbal infants, that is, how and when infants can understand that a word...
Language production
07/02/2012 - 03:09
With this line of research we aim at gaining a deeper understanding on the temporal course of lexical selection in speech production. Specifically, whether lexical selection...
Multilingual interaction
07/02/2012 - 03:08
In this line of research we look at how people adapt to each other during conversation. Alignment can occur at different levels, such as lexical, syntactic, semantic or even...
Neurodegenerative diseases: Language and memory effects
07/02/2012 - 03:08
One aim of the project is to see to which extent the dementia affects the degeneration of the two languages in bilinguals. In particular, we compare performance in speech...
07/02/2012 - 03:07
This project aims at investigating the nature of the deficit in proper name retrieval in Alzheimer’s disease patients. By comparing performance of...
