Conference Programme

Plenary talk

Héctor J. Caruncho (University of Victoria, Canada)

Auditory hallucinations, thought, language and communication in schizophrenia

Paper presentations

Chair: Luis Alonso Bacigalupe

Dafne Palú (Catholic University of Portugal): The bilingual brain: A theoretical review of the relationship between bilingualism, cognitive control and aphasia

Ana Paula Soares, Helena Oliveira, Francisco Gutierrez, Margarida Vasconcelos, David Tomé, and Luis Jiménez (University of Minho, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, University of Santiago de Compostela): Statistical learning under implicit and explicit learning conditions: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Peter Viertbauer (University of Innsbruck): Mapping the architecture of reference in the brain

Paper presentations

Chair: Esperanza Rama Martínez

Maitê Moraes Gil and Maity Siqueira (Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul): Two studies on figurative language comprehension in different age-spans: what insights about language acquisition can they provide us?

Silvia Sánchez Calderón and Raquel Fernández Fuertes (University of Valladolid): How are prepositional and double object constructions represented in the mind of English-Spanish bilingual children at the early stages of acquisition?

Plenary talk & Discussion

Sónia Frota (University of Lisboa)

Early markers of language development in typically and atypically developing infants and toddlers

Plenary talk & Discussion

Katie Overy (University University of Edinburgh)

Music and Language Across the Lifespan

paper presentations

Chair: Dolores González Álvarez

Alba Dias Fernández (University of Santiago de Compostela): Temporal patterns in innate vocalizations as a window into vocal flexibility: a preliminary study of early call rhythms in the songbird Taeniopygia guttata

Ana Duarte Campos, Helena Mendes Oliveira, Ana Paula Soares (University of Minho): On the locus of syllable structure effect in visual word recognition: Evidence from European Portuguese

Isabel Fraga and Isabel Padrón (University of Santiago de Compostela): Two brains in one mind: Affective and morpho-syntactic processing do not interact

paper presentations

Chair: Elena Seoane

Ana Rita Sá-Leite, Karlos Luna, Isabel Fraga, and Montserrat Comesaña (University of Santiago de Compostela, University of Minho, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Minho): A meta-analysis about the cross-linguistic Gender Congruency effect in bilinguals

Tamara Gómez Carrero, Raquel Fernández Fuertes, & Alejandro Martínez (University of Valladolid): Where the eye takes you: the processing of gender in codeswitching

Plenary talk & Discussion

Carlos Acuña Fariña (University of Santiago of Compostela)

On constraints, architectural opportunism and directionality: a psycholinguistic narrative