About...

I have had an ongoing interest in Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience since my undergraduate years. Particularly in how the human brain processes language, and more specifically, in how adult speakers represent and process language. In the past few years I explored the speech perception system in its adaptation to natural speech variation and its modulation by acoustical-perception salience. With this purpose, in my research thesis I tested how monolinguals and bilinguals performed discriminations at phonemic and lexical levels, using both behavioural and electrophysiological measures (Event-Related Brain Potentials). Recently, my research interests spread in addition to other issues as the perceptual mechanism of temporal realignment and the spatial encoding of sound pitch.