BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Manuel Carreiras

Position: Scientific director. Ikerbasque Research Professor
m.carreiras@bcbl.eu

 

Management: Overall strategic and scientific management of BCBL

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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Duñabeitia, J.A., Kinoshita, S., Carreiras, M., & Norris, D. (in press). Is morpho-orthographic decomposition purely orthographic? Evidence from masked priming in the same-different task. Language and Cognitive Processes.
• Dimitropoulou, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Carreiras, M. (in press). Masked translation priming effects with low proficient bilinguals. Memory and Cognition.
• Gillon-Dowens, M., Vergara, M., Barber, H. A., Carreiras, M. (in press). Morpho-syntactic processing in late L2 learners. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
• Carreiras, M., Seghier, M., Baquero, S., Estévez, A., Lozano, A., Devlin, J.T., and Price, C. J. (2009). An anatomical signature for literacy. Nature, 461, 983-U245
• 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
• Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Molinaro, N. (2009). Consonants and vowels contribute differently to visual word recognition: ERPs of relative position priming. Cerebral Cortex, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhp019
• 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
• Perea, M., Duñabeitia, J. A. & Carreiras, M. (2008) Masked associative/semantic and translation priming effects across languages with highly proficient bilinguals. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 916-930.
• Carreiras, M., & Price, C. J. (2008). Brain activation for consonants and vowels. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 1727-1735; doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhm202.
• 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.
• Baus, C., Gutiérrez-Sigut, E., Quer, J., & Carreiras, M. (2008) Lexical Access in Catalan Signed Language (LSC) production. Cognition, 108, 856-865
• Duñabeitia, J.A., Perea, M., & Carreiras, M. (2007) Do transposed-letter similarity effects occur at a morpheme level? Evidence for morpho-orthographic decomposition. Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.001.
• 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
• 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
• 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., Lopez, J., Rivero, F., & Corina, D. (2005) Neural processing of a whistled language. Nature. 433, 31-32.
• Barber, H. & Carreiras, M. (2005) Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish: An ERP Comparison. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17:1, 137-153.