Ayneto Gimeno, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)
Infants can live in a monolingual or a bilingual environment from birth. While being exposed to one or two language does not influence when infants achieve the main language milestones it may require ...
Bas, Jesús (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Humans are social animals living in groups and tending to organize themselves hierarchically. This social stratification influences individuals’ social interactions, as well as their cognitive processes ...
Nácar García, Loreto (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fundamental difference between infants growing up in monolingual versus bilingual environments is the ...
Roessler, Abeba (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)
The present dissertation set out to investigate how the linguistic environment affects speech perception. Three sets of studies have explored effects of bilingualism on word recognition in adults and ...
Albareda Castellot, Bàrbara (Date of defense: 2010-06-01)
The present dissertation aims at analyzing the interplay between initial acoustic biases and language exposure during acquisition of language in the first year of life. This is a critical period in ...
Riquelme Esteve, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Our everyday life is plenty of social interactions, but there are still many unknowns about the mechanisms supporting them. The current dissertation aims to explore the neurocognitive processes that ...
Zacharaki, Konstantina Eirini (Date of defense: 2022-02-24)
Infants start their lives with a universal ability to perceive speech and during the first months of life they attune to the language(s) they are exposed to in their environment, i.e. perceptual narrowing. ...
Pi Casaus, Gisela (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
Newborns are able to perceive sound of many languages. However, throughout their first year of life, both biological maturation and language exposure attune infants’ perceptual systems to the characteristics ...
Frey, Camille (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
In the present dissertation we compared monolingual and bilingual language acquisition by exploring two main topics of the early bilingual language acquisition: the establishment of the phoneme system ...
Santamaría-García, Hernando (Date of defense: 2014-01-31)
The present research is aimed at analyzing how human’s brain jointly computes cognitive and social interactions in presence of implicit social stimuli and/or in presence of socially neutral stimuli. ...