Lab Affiliation: Language Cognition and Communication Research Group

Research Interests:

Lexical and syntactic representation on both monolingual and bilingual speakers; Bilingual Language selection mechanisms.

Recent Publications:

Costa, A., Albareda, B, & Santesteban, M. (in press). Assessing the presence of lexical competition across languages: Evidence from the Stroop Task. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Costa, A., Santesteban, M., & Ivanova, I. (2006). How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and Language-Specific Selection mechanisms are both functional. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 1057-1074.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2006). Does L1 syntax affect L2 processing? A study with highly proficient early bilinguals. In Beatríz Fernández & Itziar Laka (eds.) Andolin gogoan. Essays in honour of Professor Eguzkitza. EHUko argitalpen zerbitzua, Bilbao, 817-834.

Santesteban, M., Costa, A., Pontin, S., & Navarrete, E. (2006). The effect of word-frequency on lexical selection in speech production: Evidence from semantic homogeneous naming contexts. Cognitiva, 18, 75-84.

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2006). The control of speech production by bilingual speakers: Introductory remarks. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9, 115-117.

Costa, A., Santesteban, M., & Caño, À. (2005). On the facilitatory effects of cognate words in bilingual speech production. Brain and Language, 94, 94-103.

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2004). Bilingual word perception and production: two sides of the same coin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 253.

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2004). Lexical access in bilingual speech production: Evidence from language switching in highly proficient bilinguals and L2 learners. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 491-511.