Thursday, 29th of September

Temporal flexibility to orient attention modulates rule learning in childhood

Anna Martinez-Alvarez 1,2, Pablo Ripolles 1,2, Monica Sanz-Torrent 1, Ferran Pons 1, and Ruth de Diego-Balaguer 1,2,3

1 Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

2 Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, IDIBELL (Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge), Spain,

3 ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies), Barcelona, Spain

There is more to fast-mapping than meets the eye

Cristina Galusca1, Martín Guida Fórneas 1, and Luca L. Bonatti 1,2

1 Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

2 ICREA

Temporal predictability in speech: Comparing statistical approaches on 18 world languages

Yannick Jadoul, Andrea Ravignani, Bill Thompson, Piera Filippi, and Bart de Boer

Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Perception of acoustic stress patterns across species: humans, budgerigars, and rats

Marisa Hoeschele1 and Juan M. Toro 2, 3

1. University of Vienna, Austria

2. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

3. ICREA

The role of memory consolidation in learning and generalising inflectional morphology: behavioural and fMRI findings

Lydia Vinals1,2, Jelena Mirković3,4, Gareth Gaskell3, and Matt Davis1

1. Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK

2. Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University Of Cambridge

3. University of York, York, UK

4. York St John University, York, UK

Top-down effects of meter induction on audition and vision

Alexandre Celma Miralles1 , Robert Frank de Menezes2, and Juan M. Toro1,3

1. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

2. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

3. ICREA

Linguistic background affects bilingual children’s attention to the mouth of a talking person

Joan Birulés, Laura Bosch, and Ferran Pons

Universitat de Barcelona

When Alice in Wonderland has an accent: The effects of accented speech on attentional networks

Mireia Hernández1, Noelia Ventura-Campos2, Albert Costa1, 3, Anna Miró-Padilla4 and César Ávila4

1. Center for Brain and Cognition. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona. Spain.

2. Department of Mathematics Teaching. Faculty of Teacher Training. Universitat de València. València. Spain

3. ICREA

4. Neuropsychology and Functional Imaging Group. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain

Communication profile in persons with Angelman Syndrome

Karla Guerrero Leiva and Carme Brun i Gasca

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

How social-reward hormones modulate language learning

Constantina Theofanopoulou

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain