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Date | Title | Event and location | Registration |
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Aug 2020 | Open data and reproducibility: R Markdown, data dashboards and Binder v2.1 (co-led with Florencia D'Andrea) | CarpentryCon@Home, The Carpentries [online] | Link |
July 2020 | Open data and reproducibility: R Markdown, data dashboards and Binder (co-led with Eirini Zormpa) | UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham [online] | Link |
May 2020 | R Markdown | Lancaster University [online] |
Date | Format | Title | Event |
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Oct, Nov 2024 | Posters | Smart starts: Cognitive differences predict prior knowledge involvement in language learning | (1) XIV Conference of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), Almería; (2) 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York |
Nov 2024 | Co-organisation and presentations | Tasks tailored for several electroencephalography and behavioural stations. Short presentations given on electroencephalography, language acquisition and executive functions. | Public outreach event of the UiT Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL), hosted at the Arctic University Museum of Norway. |
Oct, Nov 2023; June, July, Aug, Sept 2024 | Posters and speed talk | Investigating language learning and morphosyntactic transfer longitudinally using artificial languages | (1) AcqVA Aurora Centre, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; (2) PoLaR Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; (3) 9th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; (4) Highlights in the Language Sciences 2024, Radboud University; (5) 13th International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, University of Groningen; (6) 30th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Edinburgh |
July 2024 | Poster | Language and vision in conceptual processing: Multilevel analysis and statistical power | Highlights in the Language Sciences 2024, Radboud University |
Mar, July, Sept 2024 | Poster | Making research materials Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable | (1) AcqVA Aurora Closing Event, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; (2) Highlights in the Language Sciences 2024, Radboud University; (3) 30th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Edinburgh |
Mar 2024 | Poster | Is third language learning influenced by working memory, implicit learning and inhibitory control? | AcqVA Aurora Closing Event, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Mar 2024 | Poster | Effects of cognitive individual differences on cross-linguistic effects in L3 acquisition | AcqVA Aurora Closing Event, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
May 2023 | Reading group discussion | Discussion of Labotka et al. (2023): Testing the effects of congruence in adult multilingual acquisition with implications for creole genesis | Reading group of the PoLaR Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Jan 2023 | Reading group discussion | Discussion of Jost et al. (2019): Input complexity affects long-term retention of statistically learned regularities in an artificial language learning task | Reading group of the PoLaR Lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Oct 2022 | Talk | Language and sensorimotor simulation in conceptual processing: Multilevel analysis and statistical power | AcqVA Aurora Centre, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Sept 2022 | Talk | The interplay between linguistic and embodied systems in conceptual processing | Presented by Dr. Dermot Lynott at the 22nd Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), in Lille, France |
Feb 2022 | Talk | Language and vision in conceptual processing: Multilevel analysis and statistical power | Language and Cognition Seminars, Dept. Psychology, Lancaster University |
May 2021 | Talk | Linguistic and embodied systems in conceptual processing: Variation across individuals and items | Lancaster University Postgraduate Psychology Conference 2021 |
May 2021 | Talk | Towards reproducibility and maximally-open data | Open Science Week 2021, Open Scholarship Community Galway |
Nov 2020 | Talk | Mixed-effects models in R, and a new tool for data simulation | New Tricks Seminars, Dept. Psychology, Lancaster University |
Oct 2020 | Talk | Reproducibilidad en torno a una aplicación web | Reprohack en español, LatinR Conference 2020 |
Apr 2020 | Talk | Embedding open research and reproducibility in the UG and PGT curricula (with Andrew Stewart and Phil McAleer) | Collaborations Workshop, Software Sustainability Institute |
Sept 2019 x 2 | Talk | Presentations at two open days on the education and the research at our department | Department of Psychology, Lancaster University |
Dec 2018 | Talk | Presenting data interactively online using R Shiny | Research Software Forum, Lancaster University |
Nov 2018 | Talk | Linguistic and embodied systems in conceptual processing: Role of individual differences | Psychology postgraduate medley, Lancaster University |
Jan 2017 x2; Apr, July, Nov 2017 | Poster | Modality switch effects emerge early and increase throughout conceptual processing: Evidence from ERPs | (1) Event representations in episodic and semantic memory, University of York; (2) Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, Radboud University; (3) Juniorendag, Utrecht University; (4) 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London; (5) 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver |
June 2016 | Talk | Conceptual processing at different speeds: Probing linguistic and embodied systems | Synapsium, Radboud University |
May 2016 | Poster | Norming study of modality exclusivity in Dutch, and an ongoing EEG study of linguistic and embodied conceptual processing | Psycholinguistics in Flanders, University of Antwerp |
June 2015 | Talk | New reviews and insights on language evolution | Tenth Language at the University of Essex (LangUE) Conference, University of Essex |
Feb, May 2015 | Talk | Shallow and deep conceptual representation: An ERP design | (1) Theme Meetings, Radboud University; (2) Neurobiology of Language Lab meeting, MPI Psycholinguistics |
Jan, Mar 2015 | Poster | Linguistic relativity in motion | (1) Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam; (3) Juniorendag, Radboud University |
After completing a research master's, I became a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in Psychology at Lancaster University. In my thesis, I investigated how conceptual processing—that is, the comprehension of the meaning of words—is supported by linguistic and sensorimotor brain systems, and how research on this topic is influenced by methodological aspects such as the operationalisation of variables and the sample size of experiments.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. I work at the Department of Language and Culture, and specifically within the PoLaR Lab and C-LaBL. As the local manager of the LESS Project (Language Economy through Transfer Source Selectivity), I work on a six-session longitudinal study that investigates how bilingual people acquire an additional language, how this process is influenced by the characteristics of the languages, and how the process is instantiated in the brain. As part of this work so far, I contributed to the design of our study, developed most of the materials for our study and for a partner study in Spain, documented the creation of the materials and pretested them, wrote a preregistration, recruited participants, designed the protocol for the electroencephalography (EEG) sessions, trained students and research assistants in this protocol and in EEG more generally, set up and managed an EEG lab, conducted many of the sessions and oversaw those conducted by our research assistants, monitored the longitudinal progress per participant, presented the design of the study at conferences, preprocessed the EEG and behavioural data in collaboration with research assistants, and performed the statistical analysis.
I am also interested in the relationships between language and other cognitive domains, as well as in the origins and evolution of language.
I employ a range of tools, including behavioural and electroencephalographic experiments, corpus analysis, statistics and programming. The materials, the data and the analyses produced in my research are available at https://osf.io/25u3x.
My CV is available here.
Postdoctoral fellow, Nov 2022 – Feb 2025
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Additional service: co-organisation of multiple events, including the lunch meetings of AcqVA Aurora and C-LaBL, and a public outreach event of C-LaBL. Peer-review for Cognition, Cognitive Science and EuroSLA conference.
Statistical consultant, Nov 2022
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- I worked as a statistical consultant for the CLICK Project (Cross-Linguistic Influence of Competing Knowledge), which investigated multilingualism in heritage speakers. I worked with questionnaire and eye-tracking data.
PhD Psychology with graduate teaching scholarship, 2018–2022
Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
- Additional service: peer-review for Cognitive Science and for Psychological Science Accelerator; development of website for open science group in my department.
Research Master Language and Communication, 2013–2017
Tilburg University and Radboud University (Netherlands)
- Grade: 7.54 out of 10 (Distinction)
- Thesis project involving electroencephalography, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
- Tilburg University Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2014/2015
- Student member, Master’s curriculum and accreditation committee
BA English, 2007–2013
Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain)
- One-year Erasmus exchange at University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- One-year exchange at University of Barcelona, Spain
- Six-month Spanish teaching placement in Kaunas, Lithuania
- Grade: 7.30 out of 10 (2:1 Hons)
Advanced R programming, 2017
Johns Hopkins University via Coursera
Improving your statistical inferences, 2017
Eindhoven University of Technology via Coursera
Neurobiology of language, 2017
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
- Course focussed on multilingualism, including the interesting and hotly-debated topic of cognitive benefits.
Big data in society, 2016
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- I honed my experience in R and learned about techniques such as topic modelling and crowdsourcing.
Linear mixed-effects models in R, 2016
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Statistics: Analyzing in R, 2016
Radboud University
Introduction to cognitive neuroscience, 2015
Radboud University Summer School
- I became acquainted with the cognitive neuroscience approach to language, perception and action.
Language science: Current methods and interdisciplinary perspectives, 2015
Radboud University Summer School
- Psycholinguistic, neurobiological and computational approaches to language.
Transcranial brain stimulation, 2015
Donders Institute, Radboud University
- I gained theoretical and practical experience in the technique of transcranial brain stimulation. This technique occupies a privileged position in the area of conceptual processing (i.e., the comprehension of words in the brain), as it allows tapping into the causality of experimental effects with a greater precision than most other techniques.
Neurobiology of language, 2015
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
- I learned about the functional mapping of language in the brain, and the toolkit used for this research.
Psycholinguistics: Self-monitoring, 2015
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
- I learned about how speech errors can serve as a window into the psychology of language.
Part of Neuroimaging 1, 2014
Radboud University
- I followed the first two months of this course as a listener to learn the principles of electroencephalography, event-related potentials, magnetoencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Since my PhD, I have advised several students and colleagues about conducting behavioural and EEG experiments, and about data management, preprocessing and analysis. Furthermore, during my postdoc, I have co-supervised a master's thesis.
My PhD scholarship was teaching-based, so I contributed to the curriculum of the Lancaster University Department of Psychology for 180 hours a year. Specifically, each year, I led 30 seminars and marked 80 essays in developmental, cognitive and social psychology, while also helping in 30 statistics lab sessions. This activity is detailed below.
Course and remit | |
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2021–22 | Introduction to developmental psychology (115) — Seminars and essay marking |
Introduction to neuroscience (112) — Seminars | |
Introduction to cognitive psychology (111) — Seminars and essay marking | |
Social psychology in the digital age (113) — Seminars | |
Statistics for psychologists I (121) using R — Lab sessions | |
2020–21 | Introduction to developmental psychology (115) — Seminars and essay marking |
Introduction to neuroscience (112) — Seminars | |
Introduction to cognitive psychology (111) — Seminars and essay marking | |
Social psychology in the digital age (113) — Seminars | |
Statistics for psychologists I and II (121 and 122) using R — Lab sessions | |
2019–20 | Understanding psychology (101) — Seminars and essay marking |
Cognitive psychology (201) — Seminars and essay marking | |
Master's statistics (401) using R — Lab sessions | |
2018–19 | Understanding psychology (101) — Seminars and essay marking |
Investigating psychology: Analysis (102) using SPSS — Lab sessions |
Furthermore, during my PhD, I was a representative for graduate teaching assistants in my department for a year.
Finally, I am a Certified Carpentries Instructor, and have led several workshops on data analysis using R. Earlier in my career, I taught English to secondary-education students in Spain, and Spanish to adults in Lithuania.
May – July 2018 |
Service analyst. Onfido, London, UK. I contributed to the verification of semi-automated identity checks. In addition to random sampling, I used Power BI to extract sections from a large data set, and created a self-updating data dashboard in Excel containing tables and plots that summarised the data. |
Dec 2015 – Feb 2016 |
Data Science market research and student recruitment (part-time). Tilburg University I contributed to the elaboration of a leaflet, and informed prospective students at open days. |
2015 – 2016 |
Student representative at master’s fairs in Spain (part-time). Radboud University, Tilburg University I worked at three fairs with Radboud University, and at one with Tilburg University. |
2013 – 2016 |
Presenter of my master's programme at open days (part-time). Tilburg University |
2013 – 2016 |
Communication, website and student recruitment (part-time). Academia Bravosol, Madrid, Spain |
2011 – 2013 |
Teacher of English and Spanish (part-time). Academia Bravosol, Madrid, Spain |
Short essays, tutorials, inquiries, and functions for the implementation of experiments, data analysis and other purposes.
Some of the posts involving R code were republished on R-bloggers, R Weekly, Data Science Central and dev.to.
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