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D-Index
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Citations
23665
World Ranking
1106
National Ranking
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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
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Manuel Carreiras is affiliated with the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in Spain. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including Neuroscience and Psychology, with specific contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their work also extends into subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The main topics in Manuel Carreiras's research involve Reading and Literacy Development, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, and Language Development and Disorders. Additional focus areas include EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neuroscience and Music Perception, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Manuel Carreiras has contributed to a number of recent scholarly papers. These include:

  • Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Impaired neural response to speech edges in dyslexia, 2020, Cortex
  • Phonatory and articulatory representations of speech production in cortical and subcortical fMRI responses, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Clear Theories Are Needed to Interpret Differences: Perspectives on the Bilingual Advantage Debate, 2021, Neurobiology of Language

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Ileana Quiñones
  • Nicola Molinaro
  • Lucía Amoruso
  • Santiago Gil Robles
  • Iñigo Pomposo

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Brain and Language

Manuel Carreiras's contributions have been recognized with membership in the Academia Europaea, awarded in 2019.

Best Publications

  • An anatomical signature for literacy

    Manuel Carreiras;Mohamed L. Seghier;Silvia Baquero;Adelina Estévez

  • EsPal: One-stop shopping for Spanish word properties

    Andrew Duchon;Manuel Perea;Nuria Sebastián-Gallés;Antonia Martí

  • The inhibitory advantage in bilingual children revisited: myth or reality?

    Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Juan Andrés Hernández;Eneko Antón;Pedro Macizo

  • Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish: An ERP Comparison

    Horacio Barber;Manuel Carreiras

  • The what, when, where, and how of visual word recognition

    Manuel Carreiras;Blair C. Armstrong;Manuel Perea;Ram Frost

  • Effects of orthographic neighborhood in visual word recognition: cross-task comparisons.

    Manuel Carreiras;Manuel Perea;Jonathan Grainger

  • Grammatical agreement processing in reading: ERP findings and future directions.

    Nicola Molinaro;Horacio A. Barber;Manuel Carreiras

  • Syllable Frequency and Visual Word Recognition in Spanish

    M. Carreiras;C.J. Alvarez;M. Devega

  • Is there a bilingual advantage in the ANT task? Evidence from children.

    Eneko Antón;Jon A. Duñabeitia;Adelina Estévez;Juan A. Hernández

  • Morphosyntactic processing in late second-language learners

    Margaret Gillon Dowens;Margaret Gillon Dowens;Marta Vergara;Horacio A. Barber;Manuel Carreiras

  • Universal brain signature of proficient reading: Evidence from four contrasting languages

    Jay G. Rueckl;Jay G. Rueckl;Pedro M. Paz-Alonso;Peter J. Molfese;Peter J. Molfese;Wen Jui Kuo

  • The use of stereotypical gender information in constructing a mental model: Evidence from English and Spanish

    Manuel Carreiras;Alan Garnham;Jane Oakhill;Kate Cain

  • Effects of Syllable Frequency and Syllable Neighborhood Frequency in Visual Word Recognition

    Manuel Perea;Manuel Carreiras

  • Parsing in Different Languages

    Fernando Cuetos;Don C Mitchell;Martin M B Corley;Manuel Carreiras

  • Another word on parsing relative clauses: eyetracking evidence from Spanish and English.

    Manuel Carreiras;Charles Clifton

  • Syllable-frequency effects in visual word recognition: evidence from ERPs.

    Horacio Barber;Marta Vergara;Manuel Carreiras

  • Relative clause interpretation preferences in Spanish and English.

    Manuel Carreiras;Charles Clifton

  • Masked Translation Priming Effects With Highly Proficient Simultaneous Bilinguals

    Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Manuel Perea;Manuel Carreiras

  • Smart phone, smart science: how the use of smartphones can revolutionize research in cognitive science.

    Stephane Dufau;Jon Andoni Duñabeitia;Carmen Moret-Tatay;Aileen McGonigal

  • The role of verb tense and verb aspect in the foregrounding of information during reading.

    Manuel Carreiras;Núria Carriedo;María Angeles Alonso;Angel Fernández

  • The On-line Study of Sentence Comprehension: Eyetracking, ERPs and Beyond

    Manuel Carreiras;Charles Clifton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University
Manuel Perea
Manuel Perea University of Valencia
Mante S. Nieuwland
Mante S. Nieuwland Max Planck Society
Jonathan Grainger
Jonathan Grainger Aix-Marseille University
Ram Frost
Ram Frost Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Luis J. Fuentes
Luis J. Fuentes University of Murcia
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Jane Oakhill
Jane Oakhill University of Sussex
Markus Conrad
Markus Conrad University of La Laguna
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London

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