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Psycholinguistics
Portugal

Biography

My research interests cover several different areas of language production, comprehension and acquisition. Within the Reseach Group of Psycholinguistics (RGP), housed in the Human Cognition Lab of the School of Psychology at the University of Minho (see https://www.psi.uminho.pt/pt/CIPsi/Unidades_Investigacao/Psicolinguistica/Paginas/Sobre.aspx), where I am the Main Researcher, we developed studies that aim to explore: the lexical and sublexical factors that affect visual-word recognition both in children and adults; the cognitive mechanisms involved in syntactic ambiguity resolution both in monolinguals and bilinguals; how bilinguals process cognate and noncognate words and acquire new ones; how subjects (monolinguals and bilinguals) recover from a Tip-of-the-Tongue state (TOT); and switch from one language to another. Lastly, within the RGP we are also involved in studies that aim to develop psycholinguistic research tools (e.g., lexical databases, subjective word norms) that support research in those fields of study. Currently, I´m interested in the study of the neurocognitive markers of first language acquisition in children with language impairments such as Developmental Language Disorder (previously called Specific Language Impairment) and Dyslexia, as well as in the study of the effects that exposing children to a second language in early infancy produces both at linguistics and executive functioning levels.

Activities

Employment (1)

Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia: Braga, PT

2004-03-10 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Basic Psychology)
Employment
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Ana Paula Soares

Funding (14)

Neurophysiological Markers of Statistical Learning Deficits in Developmental Dyslexia

2023-03-12 to 2024-09-11 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2022.05618.PTDC

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Creating bilingual minds in early infancy

2022-04-01 to 2025-03-31 | Contract
EDULOG Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo (Porto, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

CIPSI/FBA/2022

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CIÊNCIAVITAE

Neurodevelopmental correlates of implicit-explicit learning mechanisms in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials (ERP)

2018-06 to present | Contract
FCT (Braga, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028212

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Ana Paula Soares
grade
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Agreement, attraction and other grammatical illusions: lexical effects on syntactic processing with a cross-linguistic perspective.

2016 to 2019 | Contract
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, ES)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PSI2015-65116-P

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Ana Paula Soares
grade
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Second language sentence processing: Syntactic ambiguity resolution in late English learners at different proficiency levels

2014-03 to 2015-08 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, PT)
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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Strengthening Europeans' Capabilities by Establishing the European Literacy Network

2014 to 2018 | Contract
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (Bruxelas, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: COST IS1401
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Ana Paula Soares
grade
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Examining abnormalities in auditory emotional processing in schizophrenia: an electrophysiological investigation with high-risk, early-stage and chronic patients

2013-07 to 2015-09 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, PT)
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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Lexical and syntactic processing in the bilingual speaker: variables which influences the activation across the two languages

2012 to 2015 | Contract
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Madrid, ES)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PSI2011-26924

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Ana Paula Soares
grade
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Procura Palavras (P-PAL): A software program for deriving objective and subjective psycholinguistics indices for European Portuguese words

Bilingual semantic processing: a study with cognate words by using different learning methods

2010-05 to 2012-05 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, PT)
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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Withdrawal and academic failure at the University of Minho

2006 to 2008 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

POCI/N/04 0102/0010/0002/2006

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Ana Paula Soares
grade
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Integration's Processes and Academic Success of College students with Disability

2005-01 to 2007-06 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, PT)
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CIÊNCIAVITAE
grade
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Transition, adaptation and academic success in higher education

2002 to 2004 | Contract
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, PT)
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Ana Paula Soares

Factors of success in science and engineering course degrees

1996 to 1998 | Contract
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisboa, PT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PRAXIS/PCSH/C/CED/164/96

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Ana Paula Soares
grade
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Peer review (6 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for Journal of experimental psychology. (2)
Review activity for Journal of experimental psychology. (2)
Review activity for Reading & writing. (2)