Projects

2026

• BILREADy_App: Should I mix my languages to read better? Assessing the effectiveness of a tech-based bilingual vocabulary intervention to enhance reading development

  Program: Prueba de Concepto 2025, PDC2025-165500-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  02/2026 - 01/2028
  Funding: 181.500 €
  PI: Marie Lallier Team members: Amaia Carrión, Efthymia Kapnoula, Martin Tarragona, Manon Jones, & Cameron Downing

2025

• Gogoratzeko, lo egin: Hitzak finkatzeko garun-dinamikak loaldian zehar [Sleep to remember: Neural dynamics of word consolidation during sleep]

  Program: RED I+D 2025, 2025-CIE4-000046-01
  Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
  10/2025 - 09/2026
  Funding: 84.558 €
  PIs: Lucia Amoruso & Efthymia Kapnoula

• BIBALANCE: Early bilingualism boosts the brain's resilience to dyslexia

  Program: ERC-2024-CoG-101170337
  Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
  09/2025 - 08/2030
  Funding: 2.000.000 €
  PI: Marie Lallier Team member: Amaia Carrión-Castillo

• BRIDGE: Bridging the Gap: Bilingualism and Dyslexia

  Program: Plan Nacional 2024, PID2024-159134OB-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2025 - 08/2029
  Funding: 163.750 €
  PI:Manuel Carreiras

• BRAINVOICE: Using automated speech and language analysis to predict postoperative outcomes and disease progression in patients with brain tumors

  Program: Plan Nacional 2024, PID2024-160664OB-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2025 - 08/2028
  Funding: 150.000 €
  PI:Lucia Amoruso

• CORTICAL RHYTHMS: Aligning Brain Rhythms: Understanding the mechanisms of cortical tracking of speech to improve language functions with real time closed-loop neurofeedback

  Program: ERC-2023-ADG–101140427
  Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
  01/2025 - 12/2029
  Funding: 2.500.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Marina Kalashnikova, Marie Lallier, Nicola Molinaro, Brendan Costello, Manuela Ruzzoli, & Mikel Lizarazu

2023

• BasqGenVar: Basque Genetic Variation DB

  Program: RED I+D 2023, 2023-CIEN-000070-01
  Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
  10/2023 - 09/2024
  Funding: 57.647 €
  PI: Amaia Carrión-Castillo Team members: Marie Lallier, Manuel Carreiras, Simon E. Fisher, & Isabel Mendizabal

2022

• MultiModalCRCI: MultiModal Cancer Related Cognitive Impairment

  Program: Gipuzkoa Next 2022, 2022-CIEN-000029-01
  Funding agency: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa
  10/2022 - 10/2023
  Funding: 148.440 €
  PIs: Manuela Ruzzoli & Nicola Molinaro collaborators: Kepa Paz-Alonso & Manuel Carreiras

• SCANCER: Beyond language preservation: Mapping social cognition in brain tumor patients using a multimethod approach

  Program: Plan nacional 2021, PID2021-123575OB-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2022 - 08/2025
  Funding: 138.908 €
  PI:Lucia Amoruso

• DeafReading: Cognitive and brain mechanisms of reading in the deaf

  Program: PID2021-122918OB-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2022 - 08/2025
  Funding: 199.408 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Ram Frost & Amaia Carrion

2020

• Biomarcadores de recuperación cognitiva postquirúrgica en tumores cerebrales

  Program: PROYE20005CARR
  Funding agency: Fundación AECC
  12/2020 - 11/2023
  Funding: 300.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team Member: Ileana Quiñones

• BiTri: Bimodal Trilinguals: mapping the lexicon across languages and across modalities

  Program: Plan Nacional 2019, PID2019-107325GB-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  06/2020 - 05/2023
  Funding: 121.000 €
  PI: Brendan Costello & Marcel Giezen

• BILINGUALAGE: Correlatos conductuales y electrofisiológicos de la ventaja bilingüe en funciones ejecutivas en sujetos ancianos sanos

  Program: PID2019-105538RA-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  06/2020 - 05/2023
  Funding: 60.500 €
  PI: Jesús Cespón

2019

• DYSTHAL. Dyslexia and the thalamus: Integrating anatomy and function in a mechanistic account of the reading brain.

  Program: HR18-00178
  Funding agency: Fundación La Caixa
  12/2019 - 11/2022
  Funding: 500.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

• LangConn: Is the brain connectome a good predictor for the language network functional malleability?

  Program: RTI2018-093547-B-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  01/2019 - 12/2021
  Funding: 169.400 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Co-PI: Ileana Quiñones

2018

• Oscilang: A neurofeedback system based on oncillatory activity for diagnosis and intervention in language and reading impairments

  Program: ERC-2017-PoC-787487
  Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
  10/2018 - 09/2019
  Funding: 150.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

• Examining Native Language Variability and its Effects on Second Language Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Investigation of Referential Dependencies

  Program: BCS-1749143
  Funding agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
  06/2018 - 11/2021
  Funding: 61.830 €
  PI: Alison Gabriele Co-PI: Manuel Carreiras , Lesa Hoffman, Robert Fiorentino

2017

• Sistema de neuromodulación en plazo cerrado para la mejora del sueño y la memoria basado en la regeneración y manipulación neuronal

  Program: KK-2017/00103
  Funding agency: Basque Government
  03/2017 - 12/2018
  Funding: 56.570 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

• Validación de una evaluación digitalizada de predictores del desempeño lector

  Program: FSED_2_2016_1_131230
  Funding agency: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Uruguay
  01/2017 - 12/2017
  Funding: 26.286 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2016

• SignEval: Towards the development of evidence-based assessment tools for Spanish Sign Language

  Program: Plan Nacional 2016, PSI2016-76435-P
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  12/2016 - 12/2019
  Funding: 70.000 €
  PI: Marcel Giezen & Brendan Costello

• Diseño de una evaluación digitalizada de predictores de las dificultades lectoras

  Program: FSED_2_2015_1_120770
  Funding agency: Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII), Uruguay
  01/2016 - 12/2016
  Funding: 27.937 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

• READEAF. Mecanismos neurales de lectura en buenos lectores sordos

  Program: PSI2015-67353-R
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  01/2016 - 12/2018
  Funding: 108.900 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2015

• Multi-level Integrative Analysis of Brain Lateralization for Language

  Program: APCIN-2015-061
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  12/2015 - 11/2018
  Funding: 279.510 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2014

• ATHEME: Advancing the European Multilingual Experience

  Program: FP7-SSH-2013-1-613465
  Funding agency: European Commission (7PM)
  03/2014 - 02/2019
  Funding: 245.430 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras at BCBL Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro & Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

• Learning to read in two alphabets: typical development and reading disorders

  Program: NPRP 6-378-5-035
  Funding agency: Quatar Foundation
  01/2014 - 03/2017
  Funding: 260.549 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2013

• Procesamiento en lengua de signos, dactilologia, lectura en sordos y en codas: correlatos neuronales de la codificacion ortografica

  Program: PSI2012-31448
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  01/2013 - 12/2015
  Funding: 128.700 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2012

• Bi-Literacy: Learning to read in L1 and L2

  Program: European Research Council (ERC), ERC-2011-ADG_295362
  Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
  04/2012 - 04/2017
  Funding: 2.487.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Clara D. Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Pedro M. Paz-Alonso, Jon A. Duñabeitia, Sendy Caffarra, Brendan Costello

• LangMind - Language and Mind

  Program: Gaitek, LangMind
  Funding agency: Basque Government
  01/2012 - 12/2014
  Funding: 52.920 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Kepa Paz-Alonso & Nicola Molinaro

2011

• Research into dravets's syndrome and untreatable channelopathies

  Program: DRAVET
  Funding agency: Dravet Foundation
  07/2011 - 06/2013
  Funding: 200.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

• The European Network on Word Structure. Cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding word structure in the languages of Europe ? NetWordS

  Program: 09-RNP-089
  Funding agency: European Science Foundation
  05/2011 - 04/2015
  Funding: 565.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Coordinator: Vito Pirrelli

2010

• Memoria Semántica: evidencia de la demencia fronto temporal y la enfermedad del alzheimer

  Program: PSI2009-08889
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  01/2010 - 12/2012
  Funding: 298.505 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2009

• Language, Cognition, and Gender (ITN-LCG)

  Program: PITN-GA-2009-237907
  Funding agency: European Commission (7PM)
  10/2009 - 10/2013
  Funding: 353.933 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras EU coordinators: Sabine Sczesny & Lisa Irmen

• LSE SIGN: Base de datos de parámetros fonológicos de signos de la lengua de signos española

  Program: PSI2008-04016-E/PSIC
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  06/2009 - 06/2011
  Funding: 180.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras

2008

• Cognicion y Educacion - COEDUCA - CONSOLIDER INGENIO-2010 CSD2008-00048

  Program: Cognicion y Educacion (COEDUCA), CSD2008-00048
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  12/2008 - 12/2013
  Funding: 4.000.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Clara Martin, Nicola Molinaro, Marie Lallier, Kepa Paz-Alonso & Simona Mancini

• ESPAL: una macro-base de 300 millones de palabras en espanol con Indices semanticos, ortograficos y fonologicos

  Program: HUM2007-30271-E
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  11/2008 - 11/2010
  Funding: 207.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras