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DÍAZ MENÉNDEZ, Begoña
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Department of Basic Areas
Grup de Recerca en Adquisició Multilingüe (GRAM)
DÍAZ MENÉNDEZ, Begoña
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Teacher profile
Professor Agregat o Titular
Basic Areas, DEPARTMENT OF BASIC SCIENCIES. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Academic curriculum
- Doctora en Ciencia Cognitiva y Lenguaje Universitat de Barcelona
- Lincenciada en Psicología Universitat de Barcelona
- Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencia Cognitiva y Lenguaje Universitat de Barcelona
Publications
Articles
- Díaz, B.; Cordero, G.; Hoogendoorn, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2022), "Second-language phoneme learning positively relates to voice recognition abilities in the native language: evidence from behavior and brain potentials", Frontiers in Psychology, ISSN: 1664-1078.
- Tschentscher, N.; Ruisinger, A.; Blank, H.; Díaz, B.; von Kriegstein, K., (2019), "Reduced structural connectivity between left auditory Thalamus and the motion-sensitive planum temporale in developmental dyslexia", Journal of neuroscience, vol. 39, No. 9, pp. 1720-1732, ISSN: 0270-6474.
- Díaz, B.; Blank, H.; von Kriegstein, K., (2018), "Task-dependent modulation of the visual sensory thalamus assists visual-speech recognition", Neuroimage, vol. 178, pp. 721-734, ISSN: 1053-8119.
- Schmitz, J.; Díaz, B.; Rubio Fernandez, K.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2018), "Exploring the relationship between speech perception and production across phonological processes, language familiarity, and sensory modalities.", Language Cognition and Neuroscience, vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 527-546, ISSN: 2327-3798.
- Díaz, B.; Erdocia, K.; de Menezes, R.; Mueller, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Laka, I., (2016), "Electrophysiological correlates of second-language syntactic processes are related to native and second language distance regardless of age of acquisition", Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 7, ISSN: 1664-1078.
- Schmitz, J.; Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2016), "Attention modulates somatosensory influences in passive speech listening", Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 791-806, ISSN: 2044-5911.
- Díaz, B.; Mitterer, H.; Broersma, M.; Escera, C.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2016), "Variability in L2 phonemic learning originates from speech-specific capabilities: An MMN study on late bilinguals", Bilingualism: language and cognition, vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 955-970, ISSN: 1366-7289.
- Jin, Y.; Díaz, B.; Colomer, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2014), "Oscillation encoding of individual differences in speech perception", PLoS One, vol. 9, No. 7, ISSN: 1932-6203.
- Burgaleta, M.; Baus, C.; Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2014), "Brain structure is related to speech perception abilities in bilinguals", Brain structure and function, vol. 219, pp. 1405-1416, ISSN: 1863-2653.
- Gervaine, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Laka, I.; Mazuka, R.; Yamane, N.; Nespor, M.; Mehler, J., (2013), "Word frequency cues word order in adults: Cross-linguistic evidence", Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4, ISSN: 1664-1078.
- Díaz, B.; Hintz, F.; Kiebel, S.; von Kriegstein, K., (2012), "Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 109, No. 34, pp. 13841-13846, ISSN: 0027-8424.
- Sebastian-Galles, N.; Soriano-Mas, C.; Baus, C.; Díaz, B.; Ressel, V.; Pallier, C.; Costa, A.; Pujol, J., (2012), "Neuroanatomical markers of individual differences in native and non-native vowel perception", Journal of neurolinguistics, vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 150-162, ISSN: 0911-6044.
- Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B., (2012), "First and second language speech perception: Graded learning", Language learning, vol. 62, pp. 131-147, ISSN: 0023-8333.
- Ressel, V.; Pallier, C.; Ventura-Campos, N.; Díaz, B.; Roessler, A.; Avila, C.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2012), "An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex", Journal of neuroscience, vol. 32, No. 47, pp. 16597-16601, ISSN: 0270-6474.
- Díaz, B.; Mitterer, H.; Broersma, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2012), "Individual differences in late bilinguals' L2 phonological processes: From acoustic-phonetic analysis to lexical access", Learning and individual differences, vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 680-689, ISSN: 1041-6080.
- Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Erdocia, K.; Mueller, J.; Laka, I., (2011), "On the cross-linguistic validity of electrophysiological correlates of morphosyntactic processing: A study of case and agreement violations in Basque", Journal of neurolinguistics, vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 357-373, ISSN: 0911-6044.
- Díaz, B.; Baus, C.; Escera, C.; Costa, A.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2008), "Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105, No. 42, pp. 16083-16088, ISSN: 0027-8424.
- Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B., (2008), "Individual differences in non-native phoneme perception: Linguistic or acoustic origins", International journal of psychology, vol. 43, No. 3-4, pp. 537-537, ISSN: 0020-7594.
- Sebastian-Galles, N.; Vera, F.; Larson, J.; Díaz, B.; Deco, G., (2007), "Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations", The Spanish Journal of Psychology, vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 482-482, ISSN: 1988-2904.
- Díaz, B.; Erdocia, K.; Mueller, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Laka, I., (2006), "Individual differences in syntactic processing of a second language: Electrophysiological evidence", Journal of psychophysiology, vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 228-228, ISSN: 0269-8803.
- Sebastian-Galles, N.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A.; de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Díaz, B., (2006), "First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon", Journal of cognitive neuroscience, vol. 18, pp. 1277-1291, ISSN: 0898-929X.
- de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A., (2005), "Morphological processing in early bilinguals: An ERP study of regular and irregular verb processing", Cognitive brain research, vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 312-325, ISSN: 0926-6410.
Book chapters
- Díaz, B.; Burgaleta, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N., (2019), "The gift of language learning: Individual differences in non-native speech perception", The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism, pp. 277-296, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-119-38770-1.
- Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Costa, A., (2014), "Bilingualism and speech perception", The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9781405194730.
Projects and research
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On the relationship between speech perceptual flexibility and the phonological abilities of dyslexic and bilingual populations: brain electrophysiological evidence01/09/2023 - 31/08/2026IP: Díaz, B.
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
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Estudio de la relación entre la flexibilidad perceptiva del habla y las habilidades fonológicas en población disléxica y bilingüe: evidencia electroencefalográfica01/09/2023 - 31/08/2026IP: Díaz, B.
Ministerio de ciencia e innovación
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Contribuciones del análisis de voz a la percepción y aprendizaje del habla no nativa (Voz2Speech)01/06/2020 - 31/05/2023IP: Díaz, B.
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
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Brain functional and anatomical correlates of variability in the degree of success in the learning of the L2 phonemes (BILBRAIN). Marie Curie Actions.01/03/2013 - 28/02/2015IP: Díaz, B.
Framework Program of the European Union
Activities
- Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Presentació de poster "Speech Recognition from Familiar Speakers Engages the Person Identity Network", 2023.