Data is present: workshops and datathons
Enhanced data presentation using reproducible documents and dashboards.
This project offers free activities to learn and practise reproducible data presentation across the UK.
Enhanced data presentation using reproducible documents and dashboards.
This project offers free activities to learn and practise reproducible data presentation across the UK.
After doing a research master's, I became a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant in Psychology. I'm investigating how conceptual processing (i.e., understanding the meaning of words) is supported by linguistic and sensorimotor brain systems. I use methods such as behavioural and electroencephalographic experiments, corpus analysis, statistics and programming. My CV is available.
Conceptual processing has been found to draw on two cognitive systems. One is a linguistic system, which is based on knowledge of words and the relations among them. The other is a sensorimotor system, which draws on our perceptual, motor and affective experience. These two systems contribute to conceptual processing in a sequential manner: the linguistic system is activated first, providing more superficial semantic information, with the sensorimotor system slower to reach peak activation, but providing more refined meaning. We know that the relative importance of each system is modulated by contextual factors (e.g., linguistic context, processing goals, cognitive resources). However, we know much less about how people’s individual cognitive capacities and experience (reading experience, reasoning ability) interact with these systems, which has become a central theme in my work.
Much evidence has been found in cognitive psychology for the role of linguistic systems (based on statistical regularities in how words co-occur in language) and sensorimotor systems (based on perceptual, motor, affective experience). The linguistic system is consistently linked to faster, more superficial processing, while the sensorimotor system is linked to slower, more cognitively demanding tasks (Connell & Lynott, 2013; Louwerse, Hutchinson, Tillman, & Recchia, 2015). Recent evidence suggests that individual differences, such as measures of reading experience (e.g., Pexman & Yap, 2018) and of sensorimotor experience (Beilock, et al., 2008; Vukovic & Williams, 2015), provide additional explanatory power for accounts of embodied cognition. For example, linguistic individual differences in vocabulary predict word recognition and information processing speed (Yap et al., 2012). Likewise, sensorimotor individual differences in spatial perspective-taking are also implicated in semantic processing, as participants who tend to naturally adopt an internal perspective in space are more likely to engage in perceptual simulation when reading, by identifying themselves as the protagonist (Vukovic & Williams, 2015).
PhD Psychology with graduate teaching scholarship, 2022 (expected)
Lancaster University (United Kingdom)
- Service: peer-review for Cognitive Science journal, Psychological Science Accelerator; internship facilitation; contribution to departmental Prospr website.
Research Master Language and Communication, 2017
Tilburg University and Radboud University (Netherlands)
- Student member, Master’s curriculum and accreditation committee
- Tilburg U. Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2014/2015
- Grade: 7.54 out of 10 (Distinction)
BA English Philology, 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 teaching placement in Kaunas, Lithuania
- Grade: 7.30 out of 10 (2:1 Hons)
Advanced R programming, 2017
Coursera / Johns Hopkins University
Improving your statistical inferences, 2017
Coursera / Eindhoven University of Technology
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
Language science: current methods and interdisciplinary perspectives, 2015
Radboud University Summer School
Transcranial brain stimulation, 2015
Donders Institute, Radboud University
Neurobiology of language, 2015
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
Psycholinguistics, 2015
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
Teaching assistantship for 180 hours per year throughout PhD, 2018 - 2022 (expected)
Lancaster University Department of Psychology
- Various duties, especially formed of teaching assistantship, and also including representation of teaching assistants. BSc courses: Psychology 101 (seminars and essay marking), Analysis (labs), Cognitive psychology (seminars and essay marking). MSc courses: Statistics (labs).
Carpentries Instructor certification, Expected 2020
The Carpentries
| Cognitive science | Electroencephalography, event-related potentials, Brain Vision (e.g., ), transcranial brain stimulation, eye tracking, internet-based experiments, basic E-Prime and Presentation |
| Statistics | Mainly frequentist and some Bayesian statistics. Linear Mixed Effects models, ANOVA, regression, t-test, Chi-Square, correlation, Principal Component Analysis, equivalence testing |
| R programming | R Markdown; online data dashboards with Shiny, Flexdashboard, Plotly; Binder environments (e.g., ); mining, preprocessing, analysis of Big Data (language corpora, news and social media, through API or web scraping); statistics; visualisation; Natural Language Processing (regular expressions, word frequency and sentiment analysis, topic modelling; e.g., ); Tidyverse (e.g., ) |
| Data management | Version control Git, Binder environments (e.g., ) |
| Web development | HTML, CSS (e.g., ) |
| Business and administration | Quantitative and qualitative service analysis. Power BI, Zendesk, Jira, Confluence, Asana |
| Languages | English: C1. IELTS 2018 (out of 9): Writing, 7.5; Reading, 7.5; Speaking, 7.5; Listening, 8.5. Spanish: native. Catalan: B1. French: B1. Dutch: A2. Italian: A2 |
| May – July 2018 | Service analyst. Onfido, London, UK |
| Dec 2015 – Feb 2016 | Part-time Data Science market research and student recruitment. Tilburg U. |
| 2015 – 2016 | Student representative at master’s fairs in Spain. Radboud U., Tilburg U. |
| 2013 – 2016 | Presenter of my master's programme at open days. Tilburg U. |
| 2013 – 2016 | Communications and student recruitment. Academia Bravosol, Madrid, Spain |
Introduction to R, statistics, visualisation, reproducible documents, web applications and dashboards, HTML, CSS, web hosting (further details).
| Date | Title | Event and location | Registration |
|---|---|---|---|
| To follow | R is for Resources, Reproducibility and oppRtunities | Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster University | Link |
| To follow | Data dashboards and Binder environments | N8 CIR [online] | Link |
| To follow | Introduction to R and R Markdown | N8 CIR [online] | Link |
| 13 August 2020 | Open data and reproducibility: R Markdown, data dashboards and Binder (with Florencia D'Andrea) | CarpentryCon@Home, The Carpentries [online] | Link |
| 26 July 2020 | Open data and reproducibility: R Markdown, data dashboards and Binder (with Eirini Zormpa) | UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of Birmingham [online] | Link |
| 6 May 2020 | R Markdown | Lancaster University [online] |
| 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 |
| Event cancelled | Talk | Open Data and Reproducibility v2.0 | SatRday, Newcastle University |
| Dec 2018 | Talk | Presenting data interactively online using R Shiny | Research Software Forum, Lancaster University |
| Jan 2017 x2, Apr 2017, July 2017, Nov 2017 | Poster | Modality switch effects emerge early and increase throughout conceptual processing: evidence from ERPs | (1) Event representations in episodic and semantic memory, U. York; (2) Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, Radboud U.; (3) Juniorendag, Utrecht U.; (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. Tilburg University travel scholarship |
| 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 | Theme Meetings, Radboud U.; Neurobiology of Language Lab meeting, MPI Psycholinguistics |