JOANA ACHA MORCILLO
- Knowledge area
- Evolutionary Psychology and Psychology of Education
- Department
- Basic Psychological Processes and Development
- Centre
- Faculty of Psychology
- Electronic mail
- joana.acha@ehu.eus
Joana Acha is associate professor in the Department of Basic Psychological Processes and their development at the UPV / EHU and coordinator of the cognitive development course in the developmental area. She received her Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of Valencia with the work “Experimental analysis of the effect of orthographic similarity and encoding processes of letters during reading” (published at the University of Valencia in 2010). She has been researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Basque Centre on Cognition Brain and Language of Donostia. Her research is currently focused on the cognitive processes involved in language development and reading, she works with HAEZI and Biodonostia environmental epidemiology and child development teams, and she has published more than forty works in prestigious international scientific journals. Her teaching includes Cognitive and language development, Neuroscience and Learning difficulties.