Browsing Ciències de la Salut by Author "Sebastián-Gallés, Núria"

Now showing items 1-4 of 4

    • An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex 

      Ressel, Volker; Pallier, Christopher; Ventura-Campos, Noelia; Díaz Menéndez, Begoña; Roessler, Abeba; Ávila, César; Sebastián-Gallés, Núria (Journal of Neuroscience, 2012-11)
      Two studies (Golestani et al., 2007; Wong et al., 2008) have reported a positive correlation between the ability to perceive foreign speech sounds and the volume of Heschl's gyrus (HG), the structure ...

    • Electrophysiological correlates of second-language syntactic processes are related to native and second language distance regardless of age of acquisition 

      Díaz Menéndez, Begoña; Erdocia, Kepa; De Menezes, Robert F.; Mueller, Jutta L.; Sebastián-Gallés, Núria; Laka, Itziar (Frontiers in Psychology, 2016-02-12)
      In the present study, we investigate how early and late L2 learners process L2 grammatical traits that are either present or absent in their native language (L1). Thirteen early (AoA = 4 years old) and ...

    • Oscillation encoding of individual differences in speech perception 

      Jin, Yu; Díaz Menéndez, Begoña; Colomer, Marc; Sebastián-Gallés, Núria (PLoS One, 2014-07-03)
      Individual differences in second language (L2) phoneme perception (within the normal population) have been related to speech perception abilities, also observed in the native language, in studies assessing ...

    • Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence 

      Gervain, Judit; Sebastián-Gallés, Núria; Diaz, Begoña; Laka, Itziar; Mazuka, Reiko; Yamane, Naoto; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques (Frontiers in Psychology, 2013-10-02)
      One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or anchors into the syntactic ...