Phd Candidate
patricia.fuente@ehu.eus
Telephone: +34 945 014 452
Micaela Portilla Research Center, Office 3.2
Justo Vélez de Elorriaga, 1
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country, as well as a member of The Bilingual Mind Research Group. My main line of research seeks to establish the relative role and interplay of different bilingual dimensions in (1) language processing, (2) executive control, and (3) cognitive reserve in healthy aging. I am conducting this research under the supervision of Dr. Irene de la Cruz-Pavía and Dr. Adam Zawiszewski.
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AREAS OF INTEREST
Psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, bilingualism, segmentation, language processing, executive control, memory, cognitive reserve, healthy aging.
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CONFERENCES
Oral communications:
Fuente-García, P., Villegas, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2024). Word segmentation abilities remain stable across the lifespan: A comparative study of young and older bilinguals. Oral communication presented at the Workshop on Language Processing in Aging, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 23.
Fuente-García, P., Urquijo, R., Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2023). Exposure length to an artificial language significantly impacts adult mono- and bilinguals’ segmentation strategies. Oral communication presented at the XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31–June 2.
Fuente-García, P., Urquijo, R., Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2023). Exposure length to an artificial language significantly impacts adult mono- and bilinguals’ segmentation strategies. Oral communication presented at the I International Multidisciplinary Congress of Doctorate Students (CIMED), La Laguna, Spain, March 22-24.
Fuente-García, P., Urquijo, R., Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2022). Manipulating exposure length significantly impacts adult mono-and bilinguals’ word order preferences of an artificial language. Oral communication presented at the International APPE-SEPEX Meeting, Faro, Portugal, May 5-7.
Poster presentations:
Fuente-García, P., Villegas, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2024). Tracing adults’ word segmentation abilities: a comparison between younger and older bilinguals. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Brisbane, Australia, October 24-26. [link]
Fuente-García, P., Villegas, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2024). Lifespan word segmentation abilities: evidence from bilingual older adults. Poster presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 5-7. [link]
Fuente-García, P., Villegas, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2024). Living and aging bilingual: The role of proficiency in the word segmentation abilities of healthy older adults. Poster presented at the VII International Conference in Clinical Linguistics (CILC), Salamanca, Spain, June 19-21. [link]
Fuente-García, P., Villegas, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2024). Only proficiency predicts older bilinguals’ word segmentation abilities in their second language. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP), Michigan, USA, May 16-18. [link]
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SCIENTIFIC OUTREACH
Fuente-García, P. (2024). Participation in The Bilingual Mind Research Group stand. Week of Science, University of the Basque Country, November 7-10, 2024.
Fuente-García, P. (2024). Desvelando el misterio del cerebro bilingüe en el envejecimiento saludable. (Unraveling the mistery of the bilingual brain in healthy aging)[Outreach talk]. Week of Science, University of the Basque Country, November 7, 2024
Fuente-García, P. (2023). ¿Cómo envejece el cerebro bilingüe? [Outreach talk]. Week of Science, University of the Basque Country, November 9, 2023.
Fuente-García, P. (2023). Participation in The Bilingual Mind Research Group stand. Week of Science, University of the Basque Country, November 8-12, 2023.
Cano-Sánchez, V., & Fuente-García, P. (2023). Can older adults anticipate words better than younger adults? [Outreach article]. Mapping Ignorance. [Available here in English].
Fuente-García, P., & Cano-Sánchez, V. (2023). Bilingualism and cognitive reserve: unlocking the benefits of multilingualism. [Outreach article]. Mapping Ignorance. [Available here in English].
Fuente-García, P., (2022). Elebitasunak zahartzean duen eragina argitu nahi dugu [Interview]. ALEA, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. [Available here in Basque].
Fuente-García, P., (2022). Language Processing in Healthy Aging. [Outreach talk]. Week of Science, University of the Basque Country, November 11, 2022.
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CONFERENCE/ SCIENTIFIC MEETING ORGANIZATION
2024 – Member of the Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee of the Workshop on Language Processing in Aging, organized by the Bilingual Mind Research Group, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 23.
Invited Speakers: Jana Reifegerste (Georgetown University, USA), Marco Calabria (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Sven Mattys (University of York, UK).
2023 – Member of the Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee of the XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, organized by The Bilinguasl Mind Research Group in collaboration with the UPV/EHU Summer Course Foundation, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31-June 2.
Invited Speakers: Baltasar Bickel (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Judit Gervain (University of Padova, Italy), Marco Calabria (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Esti Blanco-Elorrieta (Harvard University / New York University, USA)
2022 – Coordinator at the XXII Science, Technology and Innovation Week. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, November 9-13.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024 (spring) – Lecturer in the undergraduate course Psycholinguistics (3ECTS), University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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STUDIES
Apr. 2022-ongoing.: Phd Candidate at The Bilingual Mind Research group, Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
2020-2021: MA on Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, University of the Basque country (UPV/EHU). Master’s dissertation: With highest Honors.
2016-2020: BA in Modern Languages and Translation, University of Alcala (UAH). Graduated with Highest Honors. Bachelor’s Degree Extraordinary Award.
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ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC TRAINING
Nov. 2024: Electroencephalography (EEG). Workshop with an eye on language and related neurocognition: Theory and Practice. Organized by Lancanster University, United Kingdom. [6 hours].
Aug. 2024: 7th edition of the ILCB Summer School. Organized by the Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain, Aix-Marseille University. [30 hours].
Jan. 2024: Effective Communication and Teaching Skills for English Medium Higher Education. Organized by the Vice-Rectorate of Basque, Culture and Internationalization of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). [28 hours].
Oct.-Dec. 2023: Academic Writting. Organized by the Doctoral Programme in Linguistics of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. [32 hours].
Jun. 2023: Mixed effects modeling in R. Organized by the Doctoral Programme in Linguistics and the Doctoral Programme in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. [6 hours].
Nov.-Dec. 2022: Introduction to Statistics for Linguists. Organized by the Doctoral Programme in Linguistics and the Doctoral Programme in Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. [15 hours].
Feb.-Apr. 2021: Skills Enhancement and Review of Approaches to Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (ELE). Organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes. [56 hours].
Oct.-Dec. 2020: How to become an ELE teacher. Organized by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes. [56 hours].
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024 – Recipient of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Trainee Scholarship Award for the Annual meeting in Brisbane.
2022 – Four-year full-time pre-doctoral fellowship, awarded by the University of the Basque Country (PIF21/194).
2021 – Bachelor’s Degree Extraordinary Award, awarded by the University of Alcala (UAH).
2020 – University Excellence Award, awarded by the Community of Madrid.
2019-2020: Global Mobility Grant, awarded by the University of Alcala (UAH).
2018-2019: Erasmus+ Grant, awarded by the University of Alcala (UAH).
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PARTICIPATION IN FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Ongoing:
The Bilingual Mind
IT1439-22 (2022-2025)
Consolidated Group of Excellence (Type A).
Funding entity: Department of Education, Universities and Research, Basque Government.
Principal Investigator: Itziar Laka Mugarza.
Endowment: 173.000 €
Finished:
Living and aging Bilingual: An examination of the Bilingual factors leading to processing advantages in young and older adults
PID2019-105100RJ-I00 (2020-2023)
Funding entity: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Principal Investigator: Irene de la Cruz Pavía.
Endowment: 181.500 €
Research project PID2019-105100RJ-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.
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LANGUAGES
- Spanish: native language
- English: C2
- French: C1
- Italian: B2
- Portuguese: B2
- German: A2
