Temporal unfolding of spelling-to-sound mappings in visual (pseudo)word recognition
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Temporal unfolding of spelling-to-sound mappings in visual (pseudo)word recognition
Eye-tracking and the Visual World Paradigm: 30 Years of State-of-the-Art Research | Workshop by Falk Huettig on 1 April
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Eye-tracking and the Visual World Paradigm: 30 Years of State-of-the-Art Research | Workshop by Falk Huettig on 1 April
MeL members will present at JIP25
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MeL members will present at JIP25
Congratulations, Rita and Laura!
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Congratulations, Rita and Laura!
Seminar by Jeffrey Zemla on group differences in semantic representation and retrieval | 14 November at FPUL
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Seminar by Jeffrey Zemla on group differences in semantic representation and retrieval | 14 November at FPUL
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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?

Meet our Team

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Visual word recognition is slower for words with inconsistent spelling-to-sound mappings. The time course of these effects was examined in...

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Instructor: Prof. Falk Huettig (MPI for Psycholinguistics and FP-ULisboa) In 1995 Mike Tanenhaus and his students at the University of...

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MeL students will present their new projects and findings at JIP25, a student-led scientific meeting at FP-ULisboa. Laura Mealha will...

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Rita Pires and Laura Mealha have successfully defended their Master dissertations! Their studies provide important contributions to the literature of...

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The MeL lab is part of CO2, CICPSI. This website was created with financial support from FCT to CICPSI (ref: UIDB/04527/2020 and UIDP/04527/2020).