Here you can find a little overview of what I am currently up to. Check out the other pages of this website for more detailed information, or take a look at my CV here!

Current projects:

Does who you are talking to affect what you remember? (thesis project, 2019-ongoing)

I use behavioral and electrophysiological techniques to explore how speaker characteristics affect cognitive processes in attention and memory. I am primarily interested in how increases in listening effort can affect information encoding and retention. I also use EEG to study how the brain treats accent information at different levels of discourse processing.

Converse to Learn (visiting scholar & collaborator, 2021-ongoing)

This project, headed by Dr. Mark Warschauer and Dr. Ying Xu of the Digital Learning Lab at University of California, Irvine and partnered with PBS kids, investigates the use of conversational agents to support children’s learning during interactive educational television consumption. As a visiting scholar I am assisting with data collection at a SoCal elementary school and data analysis.

Selected Contributions:

Thomas, T., Martin, C., & Caffarra, S. An ERP investigation of accented isolated single word processing. Neuropsychologia. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108349.

BCBL research aims to unravel the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in the acquisition, comprehension and production of language, with special emphasis on bilingualism and multilingualism. The BCBL studies processes involved in normal child language acquisition and second language learning in adults, as well as learning disorders, language disorders, language-related effects of aging and neurodegeneration and language use in different social contexts.

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