Browsing by Author "Costa, Albert, 1970-"

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  • A Cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures
    Costumero, Víctor; Marin-Marin, Lidon; Calabria, Marco; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Baquero, Miguel; Hernández Pardo, Mireia; Ruiz de Miras, Juan; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Parcet, Maria-Antònia; Ávila, César (BioMed Central, 2020)
    Background Evidence from previous studies suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve because bilinguals manifest the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to 5 years later than monolinguals. Other ...
  • A multiple-choice task with changes of mind
    Albantakis, Larissa; Branzi, Francesca Martina, 1984-; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Deco, Gustavo (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    The role of changes of mind and multiple choices has recently received increased attention in the study of perceptual/ndecision-making. Previously, these extensions to standard two-alternative tasks have been studied ...
  • Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment
    Calabria, Marco; Hernández Pardo, Mireia; Cattaneo, Gabriele, 1984-; Serras Robert, Mariona; Juncadella, Montserrat; Reñé, Ramón; Sala, Isabel; Lleó, Alberto; Ortiz-Gil, Jordi; Ugas, Lidia; Ávila, Asunción; Gómez Ruiz, Isabel; Ávila, César; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Elsevier, 2020)
    Lifelong bilingualism may contribute to cognitive reserve (CR) in neurodegenerative diseases as shown by a delay of the age at symptom onset in bilinguals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). ...
  • Anticipation processes in L2 speech comprehension: Evidence from ERPs and lexical recognition task
    Foucart, Alice; Ruiz Tada, Elisa, 1984-; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
    The present study investigated anticipation processes in L2 speech comprehension. French–Spanish late bilinguals were presented with high-constrained Spanish sentences. ERPs were time-locked on the article preceding the ...
  • Bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals to perform non-linguistic switching tasks
    Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Sanjuán, Ana; Ventura Campos, Noelia; Román, Patricia; Martin, Clara D.; Barceló-Arroyo, Francisco; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Ávila, César (Public Library of Science, 2013)
    We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals when performing/nnon-linguistic executive control tasks. We do so by exploring the brain activity of early bilinguals ...
  • Breaking down the bilingual cost in speech production
    Sadat Schaffai, Jasmin, 1982-; Martin, Clara D.; Magnuson, James S.; Alario, F.-Xavier (François -Xavier); Costa, Albert, 1970- (Wiley, 2016)
    Bilinguals have been shown to perform worse than monolinguals in a variety of verbal tasks. This study investigated this bilingual verbal cost in a large‐scale picture‐naming study conducted in Spanish. We explored how ...
  • Can faces prime a language?
    Woumans, Evy; Martin, Clara D.; Vanden Bulcke, Charlotte; Van Assche, Eva; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Duyck, Wouter (SAGE Publications, 2015)
    Bilinguals have two languages that are activated in parallel. During speech production, one of these languages must be selected on the basis of some cue. The present study investigated whether the face of an interlocutor ...
  • The Cortical dynamics of speaking: present shortcomings and future avenues
    Strijkers, Kristof; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
    A central question in the cognitive neuroscience of language production concerns the cortical activation time-course by which different word production components become available to the speaker. According to the dominant ...
  • Discourse comprehension in L2: Making sense of what is not explicitly said
    Foucart, Alice; Romero Rivas, Carlos, 1986-; Gort, Bernharda Lottie; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Elsevier, 2016)
    Using ERPs, we tested whether L2 speakers can integrate multiple sources of information (e.g., semantic, pragmatic information) during discourse comprehension. We presented native speakers and L2 speakers with three-sentence ...
  • Do you what I say? People reconstruct the syntax of anomalous utterances
    Ivanova, Iva; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Pickering, Martin J. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    We frequently experience and successfully process anomalous utterances. Here we examine whether people do this by “correcting” syntactic anomalies to yield well-formed representations. In two structural priming experiments, ...
  • Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility?
    Vives, Marc-Lluís, 1991-; Repke, Lydia; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    Ikizer and Ramirez-Esparza (2017) reported a study suggesting that bilingualism may have a positive impact on people's social skills. They found that a) bilinguals scored higher on a scale that is supposed to reveal social ...
  • Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
    Foucart, Alice; García, Xavier, 1967-; Ayguasanosa, Meritxell; Thierry, Guillaume; Martin, Clara D.; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Elsevier, 2015)
    The present study investigated how pragmatic information is integrated during L2 sentence comprehension. We put forward that the differences often observed between L1 and L2 sentence processing may reflect differences on ...
  • Early detection of language categories in face perception
    Baus, Cristina; Ruiz Tada, Elisa, 1984-; Escera, Carles; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Nature Research, 2021)
    Does language categorization influence face identification? The present study addressed this question by means of two experiments. First, to establish language categorization of faces, the memory confusion paradigm was ...
  • El efecto de usar una lengua extranjera sobre las decisiones morales
    Corey, Joanna Darrow, 1986-; Costa, Albert, 1970- (CienciaCognitiva.org, 2015)
    Puede parecer razonable pensar que nuestras decisiones morales (y naturalezas morales) no dependen de la lengua que usemos (nativa o extranjera). Sin embargo, estudios recientes sugieren que la lengua en la que se presenta ...
  • Error-based learning and lexical competition in word production: evidence from multilingual naming
    Runnqvist, Elin; Strijkers, Kristof; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)
    We tested whether learning associated to lexical selection is error-based, and whether lexical selection is competitive by assessing the after-effects of producing words on subsequent production of semantic competitors ...
  • Foreign-accented speech modulates linguistic anticipatory processes
    Romero Rivas, Carlos, 1986-; Martin, Clara D.; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Elsevier, 2016)
    Listeners are able to anticipate upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and, as a result, they also pre-activate semantically related words. In the present study, we aim at exploring whether these anticipatory ...
  • Foreigner talk through word reduction in native/non-native spoken interactions
    Rodriguez-Cuadrado, Sara; Baus, Cristina; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
    We explore the properties of foreigner talk through word reduction. Word reduction signals that the speaker is referring to the same entity as previously and should be preserved for foreigner talk. However, it leads to ...
  • Forming social impressions from voices in native and foreign languages
    Baus, Cristina; McAleer, Phil; Marcoux, Katherine; Belin, Pascal; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Nature Research, 2019)
    We form very rapid personality impressions about speakers on hearing a single word. This implies that the acoustical properties of the voice (e.g., pitch) are very powerful cues when forming social impressions. Here, we ...
  • From literal meaning to veracity in two hundred milliseconds
    Martin, Clara D.; García, Xavier, 1967-; Breton, Audrey; Thierry, Guillaume; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Frontiers Media, 2014)
    Do the integration of semantic information and that of world knowledge occur simultaneously or in sequence during sentence processing? To address this question, we investigated event-related brain potentials elicited by ...
  • Hippocampal adaptations in Mild Cognitive Impairment patients are modulated by bilingual language experiences
    Voits, Toms; Rothman, Jason; Calabria, Marco; Robson, Holly; Aguirre, Naiara; Cattaneo, Gabriele, 1984-; Costumero, Víctor; Hernández Pardo, Mireia; Juncadella, Montserrat; Marín-Marín, Lidón; Suades, Anna; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Pliatsikas, Christos (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
    Bilingualism has been shown to contribute to increased resilience against cognitive aging. One of the key brain structures linked to memory and dementia symptom onset, the hippocampus, has been observed to adapt in response ...

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