Research Interests:

Recent Publications:

BARBER, H. & CARREIRAS, M.(2005) Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish: An ERP Comparison. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17:1, 137-153.

BERNAL, J., RODRIGUEZ, M., YAQEZ, G., MAROSI, E., HARMONY, T., REYES.A., FERNANDEZ, T., SILVA-PEREYRA J., FERNANDEZ-BOUZAS, A., PRIETO B., LUVIANO, L., RODRIGUEZ, H., GUERRERO V. (2005). Visual and auditory Event-Related Potentials in Poor Readers. In: H.D. Tobias (Ed) Trends in dyslexia research. Nova Science Publishers, Inc, .Hauppauge, NY

CARREIRAS, M., FERRAND, L., GRAINGER, J. & PEREA, M. (2005) Sequential effect of phonological priming in visual word recognition. Psychological Science, 16 (8), 585- 589.

CARREIRAS, M., LOPEZ, J., RIVERO, F., & CORINA, D. (2005) Neural processing of a whistled language. Nature. 433, 31-32.

CARREIRAS, M., PERDOMO, A., MESEGUER, E. (2005) Are stem homographs and orthographic neighbours processed differently during silent reading? Language and Cognitive Processes, 20, 317-339.

CARREIRAS, M., VERGARA, M., BARBER,H. (2005) Early ERP effects of syllabic processing during visual word recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1803-1817.

ESPINO, O., SANTAMARIA, C., MESEGUER, E., & CARREIRAS, M. (2005) Early and late processes in syllogistic reasoning: evidence from eye-movements. Cognition 98, B1-B9.

POLLATSEK, A., PEREA, M., & CARREIRAS, M. (2005) Does conal prime CANAL more than cinal? Masked phonological priming effects in Spanish with the lexical decision task. Memory and Cognition, 33, 557-565.

RIVERA-GAXIOLA, M., SILVA-PEREYRA, J. AND KUHL, P.K. (2005) Brain potentials to native- and non-native speech contrasts in seven- and eleven-month-old American infants. Developmental Science, 8: (2) 162-172.

SILVA-PEREYRA, JF, KLARMAN, L., LIN, L., KUHL, PK (2005) Sentence processing in 30-month-old children: an event-related potential study. Neuroreport. 16(6):645-648.

SILVA-PEREYRA, J. AND RIVERA-GAXIOLA, M. (2005) Event related potentials in poor readers. En: H.D. Tobias (Ed) Trends in dyslexia research. Nova Science Publishers, Inc, Hauppauge, NY

SILVA-PEREYRA, J., RIVERA-GAXIOLA, M. AND KUHL, PK (2005). An event-related brain potential study of sentence comprehension in preschoolers: semantic and morphosyntactic processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 23, 247-258.

BETANCORT, M., CARREIRAS, M., ACUÑA-FARIÑA, C. (2006) Processing contolled PROs in Spanish. Cognition, 100, 2, 217-282

CARREIRAS, M., MECHELLI, A., & PRICE, C. (2006) The effect of word and syllable frequency on activation during lexical decision and reading aloud. Human Brain Mapping. 27, 863-972

DUÑABEITIA, J.A., GUTIÉRREZ, E. & MENA, Y. (2006). Influencia de la frecuencia de las letras en el efecto de facilitación por transposición de letras (Letter frequency in transposed-letter similarity effects). Cognitiva, 18 (2).

GILLON-DOWENS, M. & CARREIRAS, M. (2006). The shallow structure hypothesis of second language sentence processing: What is restricted and why?. Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 49-52

KANDEL, S., ÁLVAREZ, C.J. Y VALLÉE, N. (2006). Syllables as processing units in handwriting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32, 18-31

MESEGUER, E. (2006). Una doble visión de la psicolingüística: interaccionismo frente a serialismo. La Laguna: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna.

PEREA, M., & CARREIRAS, M. (2006). Do transposed-letter similarity effects occur at a prelexical phonological level? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1600-1613

PEREA, M., & CARREIRAS, M. (2006). Do transposed-letter effects occur across lexeme boundaries? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 418-422.

PEREA, M., & CARREIRAS, M. (2006). Do transposed-letter similarity effects occur at a syllable level? Experimental Psychology, 53, 308-315.

PEREA, M., URKIA, M., DAVIS, C. J., AGIRRE, A., LASEKA, E., & CARREIRAS, M. (2006). E-Hitz: A word-frequency list and a program for deriving psycholinguistic statistics in an agglutinative language (Basque). Behavior Research Methods, 38, 610–615.

BARBER, H. AND KUTAS, M. (2007). Interplay between Computational Models and Cognitive Electrophysiology in Visual Word Recognition. Brain Research Reviews, 53 (1), 98-123.

CARREIRAS, M., DUÑABEITIA, J. A. & PEREA, M (2007) READING WORDS, NUMB3R5 and $YMβOL$. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 454-455.

CARREIRAS, M., MECHELLI, A., ESTÉVEZ, A., & PRICE, C. (2007). Brain activation for lexical decision and reading aloud: Two sides of the same coin?. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 433-444

CARREIRAS, M., VERGARA, M., & PEREA, M. (2007) ERP correlates of transposed-letter similarity effects: Are consonants processed differently from vowels? Neuroscience Letters, 419, 219-224.

DUÑABEITIA, J.A., PEREA, M., & CARREIRAS, M. (2007). Do transposed-letter similarity effects occur at a morpheme level? Evidence for morpho-orthographic decomposition. Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.001.

DUÑABEITIA, J.A., PEREA, M., GUTIÉRREZ, E., MENA, Y. & CARREIRAS, M. (2007). Priming morfológico: algo más que priming ortográfico. Anuario de Psicología, 38(1), 9-23.

TAFT, M., ALVAREZ, C. J., & CARREIRAS, M. (2007). Cross-language differences in the use of internal orthographic structure when reading polysyllabic words. The Mental Lexicon 2:1, 49-63.

SILVA-PEREYRA, J. F. & CARREIRAS, M. (2007) An ERP study of agreement features in Spanish. Brain Research 1185, 201–211.