Friday, 30th of September

Vocabulary acquisition over a 1-week training program, an electrophysiological study

Neus Ramos-Escobar 1,2, Clément François 1,2,3, Matti Laine 4 and Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells 1,2,5

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), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

3 Institut de Recerca Pediàtrica Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.

Fronto-parietal connectivity in the extraction of language rules

Joan Orpella1,2, and Ruth de Diego-Balaguer1,2,3

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), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain,

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

The Influence of Syllabic Structure in Rule Learning

Irene Torres1, Juan M. Toro1,2

1. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2. ICREA

Social status and learning, how infants trust more on high rank agents

Jesús Bas1, Alba Ayneto1, and Núria Sebastián-Gallés1,2

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

2. ICREA

When infants receive conflicting information from different adults, they use several cues to determine which one is the most reliable. Here we study how the social status acts as a cue that helps infants to choose relevant informants.

Neural correlates of benefits for sensory consonance

Paola Crespo-Bojorque1, Júlia Monte-Ordoño1, and Juan M. Toro1, 2

1. Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2. ICREA

Beat gestures help preschool children to improve recall and language abilities

Alfonso Igualada2,3, Núria Esteve-Gibert2,4, Judith Llanes2, Olga Kushch2, Ingrid Vilà2, and Pilar Prieto1,2

1. ICREA

2. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

3. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

4. Aix Marseille Université, CNRS

The valence-space metaphor is grounded in embodied experience

Emilia Castaño1, Elizabeth Gilboy2, Sara Feijóo1, Elisabet Serrat3, Carles Rostan3, Joseph Hilferty1, and Toni Cunillera2                                                      

1. English Department, Faculty of Philology, University of Barcelona, Spain.

2. Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain.

3. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Girona, Spain.

Predicting syllables and silences: an ERP study

Vittoria Spinosa and Iria SanMiguel

Institute of Neurosciences and Dep. of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona

Mutual influences between epistemic intonation and co-speech gesture in online language comprehension

Evangelia Kiagia1, Joan Borrás-Comes1,2  and Pilar Prieto1,3

1. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

3. ICREA

Traces of Statistical Learning in Functional Connectivity after Artificial Language Exposure

Pallabi Sengupta1, Gorka Zamora-López1, Miguel Burgaleta1, Gustavo Deco1,2, Núria Sebastián-Gallés1,2

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

2. ICREA