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Núria Sebastián-Gallés

Núria Sebastián-Gallés

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D-Index
62
Citations
18182
World Ranking
3198
National Ranking
32

Overview

Núria Sebastián-Gallés is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has a robust research portfolio primarily situated within the field of Psychology. Their work spans several subfields, notably Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Social Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include Language Development and Disorders, Child and Animal Learning Development, Reading and Literacy Development, Phonetics and Phonology Research, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, and interdisciplinary concerns such as Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Frequent collaboration has been established with several researchers including Chiara Santolin, Marc Colomer, Konstantina Zacharaki, Mònica López-Vicente, and Jordi Sunyer.

Publications are spread across a range of journals, with multiple articles appearing in Cognition, Infancy, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, and Environmental Pollution. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Early life multiple exposures and child cognitive function: A multi-centric birth cohort study in six European countries," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "Exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive development in schoolchildren in Barcelona, Spain: A population-based cohort study," 2022, PLoS Medicine
  • "Experience with research paradigms relates to infants' direction of preference," 2020, Infancy
  • "The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-laboratory study," 2020, Infancy
  • "The ontogeny of early language discrimination: Beyond rhythm," 2021, Cognition

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Association between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Jordi Sunyer;Mikel Esnaola;Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol;Joan Forns

  • Simultaneous Bilingualism and the Perception of a Language-Specific Vowel Contrast in the First Year of Life

    Laura Bosch;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • Native-language recognition abilities in 4-month-old infants from monolingual and bilingual environments

    Laura Bosch;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • EsPal: One-stop shopping for Spanish word properties

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

  • A limit on behavioral plasticity in speech perception

    Christophe Pallier;Laura Bosch;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • Evidence of Early Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments

    Laura Bosch;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • The Influence of Native-Language Phonology on Lexical Access: Exemplar-Based Versus Abstract Lexical Entries

    Christophe Pallier;Angels Colomé;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy

    Whitney M. Weikum;Athena Vouloumanos;Jordi Navarra;Jordi Navarra;Salvador Soto-Faraco

  • Persistent stress ‘deafness’: The case of French learners of Spanish

    Emmanuel Dupoux;Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Eduardo Navarrete;Sharon Peperkamp;Sharon Peperkamp

  • How does the bilingual experience sculpt the brain

    Albert Costa;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • A robust method to study stress "deafness".

    Emmanuel Dupoux;Sharon Peperkamp;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

  • The Influence of Initial Exposure on Lexical Representation: Comparing Early and Simultaneous Bilinguals.

    Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Sagrario Echeverría;Laura Bosch

  • Online Processing of Native and Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts in Early Bilinguals.

    Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Salvador Soto-Faraco

  • Segmental and suprasegmental mismatch in lexical access

    Salvador Soto-Faraco;Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Anne Cutler

  • A Bilingual Advantage in Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy

    Núria Sebastián-Gallés;Bàrbara Albareda-Castellot;Whitney M. Weikum;Janet F. Werker

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

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

  • Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy

    Ferran Pons;David J. Lewkowicz;Salvador Soto-Faraco;Núria Sebastián-Gallés

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Christophe Pallier
Christophe Pallier Grenoble Alpes University
Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Janet F. Werker
Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia
César Ávila
César Ávila Jaume I University
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Jordi Julvez
Jordi Julvez HTC (Taiwan)

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