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Manuel Carreiras

Manuel Carreiras

Scientific Director. Ikerbasque Research Professor

Management: Overall strategic and scientific management of BCBL

Research: Reading, bilingualism, visual word recognition, sentence processing, sign language, neurodegeneration of language.

E-Mail: m.carreiras@bcbl.eu
Tel.: +34 943 309 300

Publications

  • Nieuwland, M.S., Martin, A.E. & Carreiras, M. (In press) Brain regions that process case: Evidence from Basque. Human Brain Mapping.
  • Leone-Fernández, B., Molinaro, N., Carreiras, M., & Barber, H. A. (In press) Objects, events and "to be" verbs in Spanish: an ERP study of the syntax-semantics interface. Brain and Language.
  • Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (In press) Perceptual uncertainty is a property of the cognitive system. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Dimitropoulou, M., Grainger, J., Hernández, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (In press) Differential sensitivity of letters, numbers and symbols to character transpositions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • Carreiras, M., Pattamadilok, C.,Meseguer,E., Barber,H. and Devlin, J.T. (In press) Broca’s area plays a causal role in morphosyntactic processing. Neuropsychologia.
  • Carreiras, M., Riba, J., Vergara, M., Heldmann, M., & Münte, T. (In press) Syllable congruency and word frequency effects on brain activation.Human Brain Mapping
  • Beyersmann, E., Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M., Coltheart, M., & Castles, A. (In press) Early morphological decomposition of suffixed words: Masked priming evidence with transposed-letter nonword primes. Applied Psycholinguistics.
  • Baus, C., Carreiras, M., & Emmorey, K. (In press) When does Iconicity in Sign Language Matter?. Language and Cognitive Processes.
  • Conrad, M., Tamm, S., Carreiras, M., & Jacobs, A. (In press) A computational model of bisyllabic visual word recognition: The MROM-S containing syllabic representation units accounting for the syllable frequency effect.European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
  • García-Orza, J., Perea, M., Abu Mallouh, R., & Carreiras, M. (2012) Physical similarity (and not quantity representation) drives perceptual comparison of numbers: Evidence from two Indian notations. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. DOI 10.3758/s13423-011-0212-8
  • Molinaro, N., Carreiras, C., & Duñabeitia, J.A. (2012) Semantic combinatorial processing of non-anomalous expressions.Neuroimage, 59 (4), 3488–3501
  • Martin, A.E., Nieuwland, M., & Carreiras, M. (2012) Event-related brain potentials index cue-based retrieval interference during sentence comprehension. NeuroImage, 59, 1859-1869.
  • Bock, J. K., Carreiras, M., & Meseguer, E. (2012) Number meaning and number grammar in English and Spanish.Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 17–37.
  • Vergara-Martínez, M., Perea, M., Marín, A. & Carreiras, M. (2011) The processing of consonants and vowels during letter identity and letter position assignment in visual-word recognition: An ERP study.Brain & Language, 118, 105-117, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.006
  • Perea, M., Moret-Tatay, C., & Carreiras, M.(2011) Facilitation vs. Inhibition in the masked priming same-different matching task.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64 (10), 2065–2079. DOI:10.1080/17470218.2011.582131
  • Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Rizzi, L. & Carreiras, M. (2011) A person is not a number: discourse involvement in subject-verb agreement computation. Brain Research, 1410, 64-76.
  • Gillon Dowens, M., Guo, T., Guo, J., Barber, H. & Carreiras, M. (2011) Gender and Number processing in Chinese Learners of Spanish – Evidence from Event Related Potentials. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1651–1659, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.034
  • Gil-López, C., Perea, M., Moret-Tatay, C. & Carreiras, M. (2011) Can masked priming effects be obtained with handwritten words? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73:1643–1649. DOI 10.3758/s13414-011-0174-y
  • Molinaro, N., Barber, H.A., & Carreiras, M.(2011) Grammatical agreement processing in reading: ERP findings and future directions. Cortex, 47, 908-930.
  • Mancini, S., Molinaro, N., Rizzi, L. & Carreiras, M.(2011) When persons disagree: an ERP study of Unagreement in Spanish. Psychophysiology, 48(10),1361–1371.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M.(2011) The relative position priming effect depends on whether letters are vowels or consonants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(5), 1143-1163. doi: 10.1037/a0023577
  • Janssen, N., Carreiras, M. & Barber, H.A. (2011) Electrophysiological effects of semantic context in picture and word naming. Neuroimage, 57, 1243–1250, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.015
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2011) Transliteration and transcription effects in bi-scriptal readers: The case of Greeklish. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18(4), 729-735.
  • van der Meij, M., Cuetos, F., Carreiras, M. & Barber, H.(2011) Electrophysiological correlates of language switching in second language learners.Psychophysiology, 48, 44–54, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01039.x
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A. & Carreiras, M. (2011) Phonology by itself: Masked phonological priming effects with and without orthographic overlap. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(2), 185 - 203.
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2011) Masked translation priming effects with low proficient bilinguals. Memory and Cognition, 39(2), 260-275.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Molinaro, N., & Carreiras, M. (2011) Through the looking-glass: Mirror reading. Neuroimage, 54, 3004-3009.
  • Carreiras, M., & Perea, M.(2011) Efectos de la estructura silábica en el priming silábico.Revista de Logopedia, Foniatría y Audiología, 31(1) 22-27.
  • Cacciari, C., Corradini P., Padovani R. & Carreiras, M.(2011) Pronoun resolution in Italian: The role of grammatical gender and context. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23 (4) 416-434, DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2011.526599
  • Dufau, S., Duñabeitia, J.A., Moret-Tatay, C., McGonigal, A., Peeters, D., Alario, F.-X., Balota, D.A., Brysbaert, M., Carreiras, M., Ferrand, L., Ktori, M., Perea, M., Rastle, K., Sasburg, O., Yap, M.J., Ziegler, J.C., & Grainger, J. (2011) Smart phone, smart science: how the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science. PLoS ONE 6(9): e24974. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024974
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Kinoshita, S., Carreiras, M., & Norris, D. (2011) Is morpho-orthographic decomposition purely orthographic? Evidence from masked priming in the same-different task. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26 (4/5/6), 509-529.
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2011) Two words, one meaning: Evidence of automatic co-activation of translation equivalents. Frontiers in Psychology 188 (2) 1-20, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00188
  • Perea, M., Abu Mallouh, R., García-Orza, J. and Carreiras, M.(2011) Masked priming effects are modulated by expertise in the script.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64 (5), 902–919.
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Avilés, A., Corral, J., & Carreiras, M. (2010) Subtitle-based word frequencies as the best estimate of reading behaviour: the case of Greek. Frontiers in Psychology, 1:218, 1-12.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Dimitropoulou, M., Uribe-Etxebarria, O., Laka, I., & Carreiras, M. (2010) Electrophysiological correlates of the masked translation priming effect with highly proficient simultaneous bilinguals. Brain Research, 1359, 142–154. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.08.066
  • Gillon-Dowens, M., Vergara, M., Barber, H. A. & Carreiras, M.(2010) Morpho-syntactic processing in late L2 learners.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,22 (8), 1870–1887,doi:10.1162/jocn.2009.21304
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2010) Influence of prime lexicality, frequency, and pronounceability on the masked onset priming effect. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63 (9), 1813-837.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2010) Masked translation priming effects with highly proficient simultaneous bilinguals. Experimental Psychology, 57, 98-107
  • Müller, O., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Carreiras, M. (2010) Orthographic and associative neighborhood density effects: What is shared, what is different? Psychophysiology, 47, 455–466, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00960.x
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Cholin, J., Corral, J., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2010) SYLLABARIUM: An online application for deriving complete statistics for Basque and Spanish syllables. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 118-125, doi:10.3758/BRM.42.1.118
  • Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Vergara, M., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Laka, I. (2010) Subject relative clauses are not universally easier to process: Evidence from Basque. Cognition, 115, 79–92
  • Molinaro, N., Conrad, M., Barber, H., & Carreiras, M. (2010) On the functional nature of the N400: Contrasting effects related to visual word recognition and contextual semantic integration. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1(1), 1-7, doi:10.1080/17588920903373952
  • Molinaro, N. & Carreiras, M. (2010) Electrophysiological evidence of interaction between contextual expectation and semantic integration during the processing of collocations. Biological Psychology, 83, 176-190, doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.12.006
  • Molinaro, N., Duñabeitia, J.A., Marìn-Gutièrrez, A., & Carreiras, M. (2010) From numbers to letters: Feedback regularization in visual word recognition. Neuropsychologia 48, 1343–1355. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.12.037
  • Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Molinaro, N. (2009) Consonants and vowels contribute differently to visual word recognition: ERPs of relative position priming. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 2659 - 2670. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp019
  • Perea, M., Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2009) Lnguaj SMS: ¿cost o bnficio? Ciencia Cognitiva, 3, 52-54.
  • Carreiras, M., Seghier, M., Baquero, S., Estévez, A., Lozano, A., Devlin, J.T., & Price, C. J.(2009) An anatomical signature for literacy.Nature, 461, 983-U245.
  • Perea, M., Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2009) Eye movements when reading text messaging (txt msgng). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1560–1567.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Marín, A., Avilés, A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2009) Constituent priming effects: Evidence for preserved morphological processing in healthy old readers. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 283-302
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Laka, I., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2009) Is Milkman a superhero like Batman? Constituent morphological priming in compound words. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21(4), 615-640.
  • Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Blitsas, P., & Carreiras, M. (2009) A standardized set of 260 pictures for Modern Greek: Norms for name agreement, age of acquisition and visual complexity. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (2), 584-589.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2009) Eye movements when reading words with $YM?OL$ and NUM83R5: There is a cost. Visual Cognition, 17 (5), 617-631.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M.(2009) There is no clam with coats in the calm coast: Delimiting the transposed-letter priming effect.Quarterly Jounal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1930-1947
  • Saldaña, D., Carreiras, M., & Frith, U.(2009) Orthographic and Phonological Pathways to Word Reading in Hyperlexic Readers with Autism Spectrum Disorders.Developmental Neurospychology, 34, 240-253
  • Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Pollatsek, A. & Carreiras, M.(2009) Does the brain regularize digits and letters to the same extent?Quaterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 1881-1888
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Avilés, A., Afonso, O., Scheepers, C., & Carreiras, M. (2009) Qualitative differences in the representation of abstract versus concrete words: Evidence from the visual-world paradigm. Cognition, 110, 284-292
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Marín, A., & Carreiras, M.(2009) Associative and Orthographic Neighborhood Density Effects in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.Neuropsychology, 23, 759-764.
  • Carreiras, M., Gillon-Dowens, M., Vergara, M. & Perea, M.(2009) Are vowels and consonants processed differently? ERP evidence with a delayed letter paradigm.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21, 275-288
  • Carreiras, M., Vergara, M., & Perea, M.(2009) ERP correlates of transposed-letter priming effects: The role of vowels vs. consonants.Psychophysiology, 46, 34-42
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Molinaro, N., Laka, I., Estévez, A., & Carreiras, M. (2009) N250 effects for letter transpositions depend on lexicality: Casual or causal? Neuroreport, 20, 381-387
  • Vergara-Martínez, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Laka, I. & Carreiras, M. (2009) ERP correlates of inhibitory and facilitative effects of constituent frequency in compound word reading. Brain Research, 1257, 53-64, doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2008.12.040.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Carreiras, M., & Perea, M. (2008) Are coffee and toffee served in a cup? Ortho-phonologically mediated associative priming. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1861-1872. DOI: 10.1080/17470210701774283
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2008) Does darkness lead to happiness? Masked suffix priming effects. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 1002-1020.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Avilés, A., & Carreiras, M. (2008) NoA's Ark: Influence of the Number of Associates in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15 (6), 1072-1077. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.6.1072
  • Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2008) R34D1NG W0RD5 W17H NUMB3R5. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 237-241.
  • Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Carreiras, M. (2008) Masked associative/semantic priming effects across languages with highly proficient bilinguals. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 916-930.
  • Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (2008) Transposed-letter priming effects for close vs. distant transpositions. Experimental Psychology, 55, 397-406.
  • Baus, C., Gutiérrez-Sigut, E., Quer, J., & Carreiras, M.(2008) Lexical Access in Catalan Signed Language (LSC) production.Cognition, 108, 856-865.
  • Carreiras, M., Gutierrez-Sigut, E., Baquero, S. & Corina, D.(2008) Lexical Processing in Spanish Sign Language (LSE).Journal of Memory and Language 58, 100–122.
  • Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M.(2008) LEYENDO P4L4BR4S y NÚM3R05.Ciencia Cognitiva: Revista Electrónica de Divulgación, 2, 31-34.
  • Carreiras, M., & Price, C. J.(2008) Brain activation for consonants and vowels.Cerebral Cortex; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm202.
  • Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Perea, M. (2007) READING WORDS, NUMB3R5 and $YM?OL$. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 454-455.
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., Gutiérrez, E., Mena, Y. & Carreiras, M. (2007) Priming morfológico: algo más que priming ortográfico. Anuario de Psicología, 38(1), 9-23.
  • Duñabeitia, J. A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2007) The role of the frequency of constituents in compound words: Evidence from Basque and Spanish. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 1171–1176.
  • Carreiras, M., Mechelli, A., Estévez, A., & Price, C.(2007) Brain activation for lexical decision and reading aloud: Two sides of the same coin?Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 433-444
  • Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2007) Do transposed-letter similarity effects occur at a morpheme level? Evidence for morpho-orthographic decomposition. Cognition, 105(3), 691-703, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.001.
  • Carreiras, M., Ferrand, L., Grainger, J. & Perea, M.(2006) Sequential effect of phonological priming in visual word recognition.Psychological Science, 16 (8), 585- 589.
  • Carreiras, M., Mechelli, A., & Price, C.(2006) The effect of word and syllable frequency on activation during lexical decision and reading aloud.Human Brain Mapping. 27, 863-972
  • Barber, H. & Carreiras, M.(2005) Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish: An ERP Comparison.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17:1, 137-153.
  • Carreiras, M., Lopez, J., Rivero, F., & Corina, D.(2005) Neural processing of a whistled language.Nature. 433, 31-32.
  • Carreiras, M., Salillas, E., & Barber, H. (2004) Event-related potentials elicited during parsing of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish. Brain Research Cognitive Brain Research. Jun; 20(1): 98-105.
  • Barber, H., Salillas, E., & Carreiras, M. (2003) Gender or gender agreement. In M. Carreiras & C. Clifton (eds). The online study of sentence comprehension. Eyetracking, ERP and beyond. Psychology Press.