Micaela Portilla Research Center, Office 3.2
Linguistics and Basque Studies
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
1 Justo Vélez de Elorriaga, Street
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Email adress: victoria.cano@ehu.eus
Telephone number: +34 945 014 452
Fax number: +34 945 013 200
I am a pre-doctoral researcher in the Linguistics and Basque Studies Department at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and a member of the Bilingual Mind research group. My main research line concerns the processing of language during healthy aging. Specifically, I am interested in the predictive processing and agreement computation during sentence reading across the lifespan. I conduct my research under the supervision of Dr. Mikel Santesteban and Professor Itziar Laka.
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RESEARCH LINES
Psycholinguistics, healthy aging, lexical prediction, agreement computation, eye-tracking.
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PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES
Cano-Sánchez, V., Laka, I., Lago, S., Reifegerste, J. y Santeseban, M. (2023). Eyetracking agreement and attraction effects in the aging brain: A Subject-verb agreement comprehension study in Spanish. Poster at the XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country (Spain), 31st-2nd June 2023.
Cano-Sánchez, V., Laka, I. & Santesteban, M. (2023). Eye tracking agreement processing and attraction errors in aging: A Subject-Verb agreement study in Spanish. Talk at the International Multidisciplinary Symposium for PhD Students (CIMED), San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 22nd-24th March 2023.
Cano-Sánchez, V., Laka, I., Lago, S., Reifegerste, J. & Santeseban, M. (2022). Eye tracking subject-verb agreement attraction errors in the bilingual aging brain. Poster at Workshop on L2 Sentence and Discourse Processing, Cologne (Germany), 18 th November 2022.
Cano-Sánchez, V., Laka, I. y Santesteban, M. (2021). Eyetracking prediction and ungrammaticality detection in the healthy aging brain. Short talk at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), online, 2nd-4th September 2021.
Cano-Sánchez, V., Laka, I. & Santesteban, M. (2021). Predictability in the healthy aging brain: an eye-tracking study of sentence comprehension in older adult Spanish speakers. Poster at the XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics, online, 22nd-25th June 2021.
Cano-Sánchez, V., Laka, I. & Santesteban, M. (2021) Prediction and ungrammaticality detection: Young vs. old adults. Talk at the International Online Workshop on Language in Healthy and Pathological Aging (Agelang), online, 29th-30th April 2021.
Cano-Sánchez, V. & Santesteban, M. (2020). Eye tracking syntax, semantics and working memory during sentence processing. Poster at the Cross-Language Interplay in a Bilingual Mind and Erasmus I-Brain event, Moscow (Russia) 10th-12th December 2020.
Cano-Sánchez, V. & Santesteban, M. (2019). On the interaction between syntax, semantics and working memory during sentence processing: An eye tracking study. Poster at the 6th Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism, Barcelone (Spain) 17th–20th September 2019.
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SCIENTIFIC OUTREACH
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2024) ¿Cómo envejece nuestro cerebro? [artículo divulgativo]. Senior Class. Nº 5, primavera 2024.
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2023). The aging brain: a predictive machine with “gains and losses” [outreach talk]. The Science week, University of the Basque Country, Basque Country (Spain), 12th November, 2023.
Cano-Sánchez, V. & Fuente-García, P. (2023). Can older adults anticipate words better than younger adults? [outreach article]. Mapping Ignorance, Basque Country (Spain). [Available here in English].
Fuente-García, P. & Cano-Sánchez, V. (2023). Bilingualism and cognitive reserve: unlocking the benefits of multilingualism [outreach article]. Mapping Ignorance, Basque Country (Spain). [Available here in English].
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2022). Language processing in healthy aging [outreach talk], Seminar series of the Gogo Elebiduna Group at the University of the Basque Country, Gipuzkoa (Spain), 6th April 2022.
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2022). The stroop effect [outreach video] at The Science Week, University of the Basque Country, online, November 2022. [Available here in Spanish].
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2022). SheMentoring: Female scientists you could run into the street [outreach video]. The Science week, University of the Basque Country, online, November 2022. [Available here in Spanish].
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2021). Can bilinguals predict the upcoming words? [outreach video]. Based on the paper Can bilinguals see it coming? Word anticipation in L2 sentence reading by Foucart et.al. (2014). Red Acelera, Univerisdad de Nebrija, online, March 2021. [Available here in Spanish]
Cano-Sánchez, V. (2021). The stroop effect [outreach video]. The Science week, University of the Basque Country, online, November 2021. [Available here in Spanish].
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 – 2023: Teaching Adjunct for Psycholinguistics. (Linguistics and Modern Languages; Undergraduate).
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EDUCATION
Sept. 2020 – Currently: pre-doctoral researcher at the Linguistics and Basque Studies Department, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain.
2021 – 2023: M.A., in Legal Translation, University of Córdoba (UCO), Spain.
2018 – 2019: M.Sc. (honors), in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain.
2016 – 2017: M.A. (honors), in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training and Language Teaching, University of Alicante (UA), Spain.
2012 – 2016: B.A. (honors), Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Málaga (UMA), Spain.
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ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC TRAINING
2023: Eye-tracking and Advanced eye-tracking summer school, University of Lisbon.
2022: Eye-tracking methods course, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
2020: Quantitative methods for behavioral research, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
2019: 6th Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and Multilingualism, Pompeu Fabra University.
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RESEARCH STAYS
Oct. 2022 – Dec. 2022: Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen: Romance Lab, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
Sept. 2022 – Oct. 2022: Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam, Berlin, Germany.
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AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2023: Best Talk in the Arts and Humanities area at the International Multidisciplinary Symposium for PhD Students (CIMED) at San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain).
2019: PhD fellowship (FPI; PRE2019-089691), Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain).
2017 – 2018: Teaching assistant fellowship (Tours, France), Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain).
2014 – 2015: Erasmus+ scholarship (Brussels, Belgium). European Union.
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PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS
The Bilingual Mind
IT1439-22 (2022-2025)
Funding agency: Department of Education, Universities and Science, Basque Government.
Principal investigator: Itziar Laka Mugarza.
Budget: 173.000 €
Cross-linguistic influence in language learning, processing and aging (CROSSLANGUAGING)
PID2021-124056NB-I00 (2022-2024)
Funding agency: Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain).
Principal investigators: Mikel Santesteban & Kepa Erdozia.
Budget: 51.424 €
The Bilingual Mind
IT1169-19 (2019-2021)
Funding agency: Department of Education, Universities and Science, Basque Government.
Principal investigator: Itziar Laka Mugarza.
Budget: 202.300 €
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LANGUAGES
- Spanish: native speaker.
- Valencian: native speaker.
- English: C1.
- French: C1.
- Italian: C1.
- German: A2.
