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<\/a><\/p>\nDepartment of basic cognitive
\nprocesses and their development
\nFaculty of Psychology<\/p>\n
Tolosa Hiribidea, 70
\n20018 Donostia
\nEuskal Herria<\/p>\n
Phone: +34 943 01 5718 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 \u201cExperimental analysis of the effect of orthographic similarity and encoding processes of letters during reading\u201d (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, and her teaching includes Cognitive development, Neuroscience and Learning difficulties.<\/p>\n Research<\/strong><\/p>\n Cognitive development and language acquisition and bilingualism.<\/p>\n Cognitive processes involved in word recognition and learning to read.<\/p>\n Behavioral and eye movement studie.<\/p>\n Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n L\u00e1zaro, M., Illera, V., Acha, J., Escalonilla, A., Garc\u00eda, S., & Sainz, J. S. (2018) Morphological effects in word identification: tracking the developmental trajectory of derivational suffixes in Spanish.<\/a> Reading and Writing<\/em>, 1-16.<\/p>\n Perea, M., Marcet, A., &\u00a0Acha, J. (2018).\u00a0Does consonant-vowel skeletal structure play a role early in lexical processing?\u00a0Evidence from masked priming.<\/a>\u00a0Applied Psycholinguistics<\/em>.\u00a0DOI: 10.1017\/S0142716417000431<\/p>\n Lizaso, I., Acha, J., Reizabal, L., & Garc\u00eda, A.J. (2017). Desarrollo biol\u00f3gico y cognitivo en el ciclo vital.<\/em> Madrid, Pir\u00e1mide.<\/p>\n L\u00e1zaro, M., Acha, J., Illera, V., & Sainz, J. (2016). Written type and token frequency measures of fifty Spanish derivational morphemes. Spanish Journal of Psychology<\/em>, 19, E75.<\/p>\n Acha, J. (2016). Hacia un modelo multidimensional del trastorno espec\u00edfico del lenguaje y la dislexia: D\u00e9ficits compartidos y espec\u00edficos. Revista de Investigaci\u00f3n en Logopedia,2, 107-141.<\/em><\/p>\n L\u00e1zaro, M., Acha, J., de la Rosa, S., Garc\u00eda, S., & Sainz, J. (2016). Exploring the derivative suffix frequency effect in Spanish speaking children.<\/a> Reading and Writing<\/em>. DOI: 10.1007\/s11145-016-9668-2<\/p>\n Lallier, M., Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2015). Cross-linguistic interactions influence reading development in bilinguals: A comparison between early balanced French-Basque and Spanish-Basque bilingual children. Developmental Science. DOI: 10.1111\/desc.12290<\/p>\n Acha, J.; P\u00e9rez, A.; Davidson, D. J.; Carreiras, M. (2014). Cognitive characterization of children with Dravet syndrome: A neurodevelopmental perspective.<\/a> Child Neuropsychology<\/em>.\u00a0DOI:\u00a010.1080\/09297049.2014.959480<\/a><\/p>\n Acha, J.; Laka, I.; Landa, J.; Salaburu, P. (2014) EHME: A new word database for research in Basque language.<\/a> The Spanish Journal of Psychology. <\/i>Volume 17, E79. DOI: 10.1017\/sjp. Fratini, V.; Acha, J.; Laka, I. (2014) Frequency and morphological irregularity are independent variables: Evidence from a corpus study of Spanish verbs.<\/a> Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. <\/i>Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 289\u2013314, EISSN: 1613-7035, ISSN: 1613-7027, DOI:\u00a010.1515\/cllt-2013-0028<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n Acha, J., & Carreiras, M. (2014). Exploring the mental lexicon: a methodological approach to understanding how printed words are represented in our minds.<\/a> In Juhani J\u00e4rvikivi, Pirita Pyykk\u00f6nen-Klauck & Matti Laine (Eds.), Words & Constructions: Language Complexity in Linguistics and Psychology<\/em>. A Special Issue of The Mental Lexicon, 9(2).<\/p>\n Sistiaga, A., Castillo, T., Aliri, J., Gazta\u00f1aga, M., Acha, J.,et al. (2014). Rendimiento cognitivo y calidad de vida de la esclerosis m\u00faltiple en Guip\u00fazcoa<\/a>. Revista de Neurolog\u00eda.<\/em> Volume 58, pp. 337-344.<\/p>\n Lupker, S.J., Acha, J., Davis, C.J., & Perea, M. (2012). An investigation of the role of grapheme units in word recognition.<\/a> Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.<\/em> DOI: 10.1037\/a0026886.<\/p>\n
\nFax: +34 945 01 5670
\ne-mail: joana.acha@ehu.eus<\/a><\/p>\n