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2026

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Psychology

D-Index
79
Citations
25406
World Ranking
1504
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Albert Costa is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with notable involvement in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology as subfields. The scientist's work covers various topics including neurobiology of language and bilingualism, dementia and cognitive impairment research, language and communication strategies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, face recognition and perception, language metaphor and cognition, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Albert Costa has published studies in several journals, with frequent contributions to Neuropsychologia and the Journal of Neurolinguistics, among others. Recent publications include:

  • "A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures" (2020) in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment" (2020) in Neuropsychologia
  • "Foreignness or Processing Fluency? On Understanding the Negative Bias Toward Foreign-Accented Speakers" (2020) in Language Learning
  • "Rapid attentional adaptations due to language (monolingual vs bilingual) context" (2021) in Neuropsychologia
  • "Characterizing lexicalization and self-monitoring processes in bilingual speech production" (2020) in Journal of Neurolinguistics

Frequent co-authors associated with this researcher include Víctor Costumero, Marco Calabria, Mireia Hernández, César Ávila, and Cristina Baus. These collaborations reflect a consistent academic network supporting their research endeavors.

Albert Costa's work extensively explores the intersections of language, cognition, and neurological processes, with a particular focus on how bilingualism influences cognitive health outcomes such as dementia and mild cognitive impairment. The research also addresses psycholinguistic elements related to language processing and communication strategies, highlighting linguistic and cognitive dynamics in multilingual contexts.

Publication venues where the scientist frequently contributes include:

  • Neuropsychologia
  • Journal of Neurolinguistics
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Language Learning
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition

Albert Costa's research topics encompass:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments

This profile presents Albert Costa as an active researcher combining neuroscience and psychology to investigate cognitive and linguistic processes, particularly within the bilingual context and its implications for cognitive aging and neurodegenerative conditions.

Best Publications

  • Lexical Access in Bilingual Speech Production: Evidence from Language Switching in Highly Proficient Bilinguals and L2 Learners.

    Albert Costa;Mikel Santesteban

  • Bilingualism aids conflict resolution: Evidence from the ANT task

    Albert Costa;Mireia Hernández;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • On the bilingual advantage in conflict processing: Now you see it, now you don't

    Albert Costa;Mireia Hernández;Jordi Costa-Faidella;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • The Cognate Facilitation Effect: Implications for Models of Lexical Access

    Albert Costa;Alfonso Caramazza;Nuria Sebastian-Galles

  • Lexical Selection in Bilinguals: Do Words in the Bilingual's Two Lexicons Compete for Selection?

    Albert Costa;Albert Costa;Michelle Miozzo;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Bilingualism Tunes the Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Conflict Monitoring

    Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi;Pasquale Anthony Della Rosa;David W. Green;Mireia Hernandez

  • How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and language-specific selection mechanisms are both functional.

    Albert Costa;Mikel Santesteban;Iva Ivanova

  • Lexical selection is not by competition: a reinterpretation of semantic interference and facilitation effects in the picture-word interference paradigm.

    Bradford Z. Mahon;Albert Costa;Robin Peterson;Kimberly A. Vargas

  • Your morals depend on language.

    Albert Costa;Alice Foucart;Sayuri Lynn Hayakawa;Melina Aparici

  • Does bilingualism hamper lexical access in speech production

    Iva Ivanova;Albert Costa

  • Is lexical selection in bilingual speech production language-specific? Further evidence from Spanish–English and English–Spanish bilinguals

    Albert Costa;Alfonso Caramazza

  • How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain

    Albert Costa;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • Bridging language and attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control

    Gabrielle Garbin;Ana Sanjuán;Cristina Forn;Juan Carlos Bustamante

  • ''Piensa'' twice: On the foreign language effect in decision making

    Albert Costa;Albert Costa;Alice Foucart;Inbal Arnon;Melina Aparici

  • Bilinguals reading in their second language do not predict upcoming words as native readers do

    Clara D. Martin;Clara D. Martin;Guillaume Thierry;Guillaume Thierry;Jan-Rouke Kuipers;Bastien Boutonnet

  • On the facilitatory effects of cognate words in bilingual speech production.

    Albert Costa;Mikel Santesteban;Mikel Santesteban;Agnès Caño

  • Tracking Lexical Access in Speech Production: Electrophysiological Correlates of Word Frequency and Cognate Effects

    Kristof Strijkers;Albert Costa;Guillaume Thierry

  • On the categorical nature of the semantic interference effect in the picture-word interference paradigm.

    Albert Costa;F.-Xavier Alario;Alfonso Caramazza

  • Lexical Access in Bilingual Production.

    Albert Costa

  • The impact of bilingualism on the executive control and orienting networks of attention

    Mireia Hernández;Albert Costa;Luis J. Fuentes;Ana B. Vivas

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfonso Caramazza
Alfonso Caramazza Harvard University
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Jubin Abutalebi
Jubin Abutalebi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Guillaume Thierry
Guillaume Thierry Bangor University
César Ávila
César Ávila Jaume I University
Boaz Keysar
Boaz Keysar University of Chicago
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Niels O. Schiller
Niels O. Schiller Leiden University
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University
Robert J. Hartsuiker
Robert J. Hartsuiker Ghent University

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