Welcome to the Memory & Language Research Team
The Memory & Language (MeL) research team is part of the Research Group Cognition in Context (CO2) of the Research Center for Psychological Science (CICPSI), at Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. MeL investigates the neurocognitive processes of memory, language, and learning, and how these cognitive systems interact.
To unravel these cognitive processes, we use an interdisciplinary approach and multiple methods from cognitive psychology and neuroscience: behavioral paradigms (e.g., masked priming; eye-movement recordings), neuroimaging techniques (fMRI; EEG), and neuropsychological studies (e.g., dyslexia; dementia). We conduct research at the lab and online (if you want to participate, let us know! Contact & Participate). Specifically:
When learning to read, how do we come to be so fast at discriminating e and c (that have just a minute difference) and at categorizing A and a as the same (neglecting huge visual differences)?
What is so special in handwriting that it benefits more learning to read than just reading?
What happens when readers find two potential readings/interpretations of a sentence?
Can we learn with the help of errors in the process of learning?
How are our memories of past events edited and reconfigured as a function of knowledge, goals and cues?
Why does naming common everyday objects (such as a drawing of a chair) pose a challenge for people with dyslexia?
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