Faculty of Communications and philology

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Research group

Spanish

Psycholinguistics and Prosody

We intend to delve into the study of the cognitive processes of language, particularly in reading, writing, prosody, and language acquisition.

Cognitive Processes of Reading and Writing.
Auditory and Visual Perception.
Speech Acquisition.
Prosodic Analysis of Different Voices in Colombia.
Prosody from a Psycholinguistic Perspective.
Experimental and Applied Psycholinguistics supported by computer-assisted instruction.

Ph.D. in Neuroscience.

Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.

Validation of an auditory and visual, and linguistic and non-linguistic perceptual processes test in elementary school children in Medellin.
Influence of prosodic parameters in the construction of meaning: interpretation through behavioral responses and evoked potentials.
Comparative study of intonation and accent in border zones of Spanish.

Temporal processing allows to identify children at risk of having reading difficulties. Result available for consultation in: Visual and auditory perception in preschool children at risk for dyslexia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2014.07.007
The pointing of children between 12 and 36 months has a function. Result available for consultation in: The role of pointing in the immediate and displaced references in early mother-child communication; Functions of the pointing gesture in mothers and their 12 to 36-month-old children during everyday activities. DOI: https://bit.ly/2Y1Noxj
The abstract mark of the adverb presents markers that reuse the neural circuits of the response to inhibition. Result available for consultation in: Sentential negation modulates inhibition in a stop-signal task. Evidence from behavioral and ERP data. DOI: https://bit.ly/33Wz38X

Analysis of auditory and visual perceptual processes in linguistic and non-linguistic stimuli and their relationship with literacy development.
Training of teachers and/or parents on the cognitive processes that underlie in reading and writing.
Characterization of the prosodic features between Colombian localities and the Romanesque space.
Training of undergraduate, master, and doctoral students in psycholinguistics and prosody.