Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language & Memory
University of Granada (Spain) & Northwestern University (USA)
Exploring the interplay between memory and language: how bilingualism shapes future-oriented cognition, studied with the co-registration of EEG and eye-tracking.
Research overview
Think of the last time you meant to send an important message, take your medication, or pass on a note before a meeting — and the moment quietly slipped your mind. Remembering to act on our intentions, what psychologists call prospective memory, is the cognitive glue of everyday life.
My research asks a question that touches the more than half of the world that is bilingual: does the language we are thinking in change how reliably we remember to act in the future? I study how bilingualism shapes future-oriented cognition, combining behavioural paradigms with state-of-the-art neuroscience — pioneering the co-registration of EEG and eye-tracking to capture these processes in real time, an approach still scarce in bilingualism research.
How using one or more languages affects our ability to remember to act on intentions, and how everyday patterns of language use shape the monitoring and retrieval processes behind it.
Combining millisecond-level electrophysiology with gaze dynamics to capture the real-time mechanisms of future thinking and intention retrieval in the bilingual mind.
How dimensions of bilingual experience such as proficiency, language context and age of acquisition reshape higher-order cognition across the lifespan.
Methodological innovation
I combine millisecond-level electrophysiology with gaze dynamics to disentangle, in real time, how the bilingual mind remembers to act in the future — a methodological advance still scarce in bilingualism research.
Selected work
A practical roadmap for combining EEG and eye-tracking in real time — opening a new methodological standard for bilingualism research.
Practising language switching reshapes how bilinguals hold and trigger future intentions — linking everyday language control to prospective memory.
The language you are operating in — first or second — changes how bilinguals recall their future intentions, locating prospective memory within the bilingual lexicon.
Bilinguals immersed in dual-language contexts monitor the environment more efficiently when retrieving future intentions — first ERP evidence of its kind.
Research environment
I develop my research across two leading groups, bridging Spain and the United States.
Prof. Mª Teresa Bajo · CIMCYC, University of Granada (Spain)
My home group in Spain, within the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC). The return phase of my MSCA fellowship will establish the first EEG + eye-tracking co-registration lab in Spain dedicated to bilingualism.
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Prof. Viorica Marian · Northwestern University (USA)
My host lab during the outgoing phase of the MSCA Global Fellowship (2024–2026), a world-leading group in psycholinguistics where I am expanding my theoretical and methodological expertise.
Visit lab →My path has also been shaped by international research stays — with Prof. Eleonora Rossi at California State Polytechnic University and at the Brain, Language and Bilingualism Lab (University of Florida), including collaboration on the HeLPiNG project led by Prof. Jason Rothman (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway).
Funded research
European Commission · Horizon Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships — Global) · €285,145 · 2024–2027 · MSCA Global Fellowship · 101150333
My flagship project, consolidating my independent line: how different bilingual experiences modulate the processes behind remembering to act in the future, using the co-registration of EEG and eye-tracking.
…and 9 further funded research and outreach projects. See all →
Funding & recognition
Open Science
I am committed to transparent, reproducible research. Within my MSCA project I developed a comprehensive Data Management Plan to systematically share data, code and experimental materials.
Preregistrations, data, materials and analysis code.
Mentoring & teaching
Supporting the next generation of researchers is central to how I work. I mentor and supervise undergraduate and graduate students across institutions in Spain and the United States, including students on international exchange programmes and through the APS Mentorship Program, and I teach at undergraduate level. My aim is to offer hands-on training in open, reproducible psycholinguistics and to help early-career researchers find their own questions.
Outreach
From the European Researchers' Night to Bilingualism Matters, I work to make research on multilingualism accessible to schools, families and the public.