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DÍAZ MENÉNDEZ, Begoña

DÍAZ MENÉNDEZ, Begoña

Professor Agregat o Titular
DEPARTMENT OF BASIC SCIENCIES
Department of Basic Areas
Grup de Recerca en Adquisició Multilingüe (GRAM)
  • Academic training
    • Competitive
    • Articles
    • Book chapters
  • Subjects taught

Academic training

  • Doctora en Ciencia Cognitiva y Lenguaje
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Lincenciada en Psicología
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencia Cognitiva y Lenguaje
  • Universitat de Barcelona

Projects

  • On the relationship between speech perceptual flexibility and the phonological abilities of dyslexic and bilingual populations: brain electrophysiological evidence
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/09/2023 End date: 31/08/2026
    Financing entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
  • Estudio de la relación entre la flexibilidad perceptiva del habla y las habilidades fonológicas en población disléxica y bilingüe: evidencia electroencefalográfica
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/09/2023 End date: 31/08/2026
    Financing entity: Ministerio de ciencia e innovación Financing entity code: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • Contribuciones del análisis de voz a la percepción y aprendizaje del habla no nativa (Voz2Speech)
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/06/2020 End date: 31/05/2023
    Financing entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades Financing entity code: PDI2019-106924-GA-I00
  • Brain functional and anatomical correlates of variability in the degree of success in the learning of the L2 phonemes (BILBRAIN). Marie Curie Actions.
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/03/2013 End date: 28/02/2015
    Financing entity: Framework Program of the European Union Financing entity code: grant agreement 32867

Publications

  • Frontiers in Psychology, Second-language phoneme learning positively relates to voice recognition abilities in the native language: evidence from behavior and brain potentials
    Name: Díaz, B.; Cordero, G.; Hoogendoorn, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2022
  • Journal of neuroscience, Reduced structural connectivity between left auditory Thalamus and the motion-sensitive planum temporale in developmental dyslexia
    Name: Tschentscher, N.; Ruisinger, A.; Blank, H.; Díaz, B.; von Kriegstein, K. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 1720 End page: 1732 Vol.: 39 No.: 9
  • Neuroimage, Task-dependent modulation of the visual sensory thalamus assists visual-speech recognition
    Name: Díaz, B.; Blank, H.; von Kriegstein, K. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Start page: 721 End page: 734 Vol.: 178
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Exploring the relationship between speech perception and production across phonological processes, language familiarity, and sensory modalities.
    Name: Schmitz, J.; Díaz, B.; Rubio Fernandez, K.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Start page: 527 End page: 546 Vol.: 33 No.: 5
  • Frontiers in Psychology, Electrophysiological correlates of second-language syntactic processes are related to native and second language distance regardless of age of acquisition
    Name: Díaz, B.; Erdocia, K.; de Menezes, R.; Mueller, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Laka, I. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Vol.: 7
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00133 ISSN or title: 1664-1078
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Attention modulates somatosensory influences in passive speech listening
    Name: Schmitz, J.; Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Start page: 791 End page: 806 Vol.: 28 No.: 7
  • Bilingualism: language and cognition, Variability in L2 phonemic learning originates from speech-specific capabilities: An MMN study on late bilinguals
    Name: Díaz, B.; Mitterer, H.; Broersma, M.; Escera, C.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Start page: 955 End page: 970 Vol.: 19 No.: 5
  • PLoS One, Oscillation encoding of individual differences in speech perception
    Name: Jin, Y.; Díaz, B.; Colomer, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    Vol.: 9 No.: 7
  • Brain structure and function, Brain structure is related to speech perception abilities in bilinguals
    Name: Burgaleta, M.; Baus, C.; Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    Start page: 1405 End page: 1416 Vol.: 219
  • Frontiers in Psychology, Word frequency cues word order in adults: Cross-linguistic evidence
    Name: Gervaine, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Laka, I.; Mazuka, R.; Yamane, N.; Nespor, M.; Mehler, J. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Vol.: 4
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00689 ISSN or title: 1664-1078
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia
    Name: Díaz, B.; Hintz, F.; Kiebel, S.; von Kriegstein, K. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 13841 End page: 13846 Vol.: 109 No.: 34
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119828109 ISSN or title: 0027-8424
  • Journal of neurolinguistics, Neuroanatomical markers of individual differences in native and non-native vowel perception
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Soriano-Mas, C.; Baus, C.; Díaz, B.; Ressel, V.; Pallier, C.; Costa, A.; Pujol, J. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 150 End page: 162 Vol.: 25 No.: 3
  • Language learning, First and second language speech perception: Graded learning
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 131 End page: 147 Vol.: 62
  • Journal of neuroscience, An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex
    Name: Ressel, V.; Pallier, C.; Ventura-Campos, N.; Díaz, B.; Roessler, A.; Avila, C.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 16597 End page: 16601 Vol.: 32 No.: 47
  • Learning and individual differences, Individual differences in late bilinguals' L2 phonological processes: From acoustic-phonetic analysis to lexical access
    Name: Díaz, B.; Mitterer, H.; Broersma, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 680 End page: 689 Vol.: 22 No.: 6
  • Journal of neurolinguistics, On the cross-linguistic validity of electrophysiological correlates of morphosyntactic processing: A study of case and agreement violations in Basque
    Name: Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Erdocia, K.; Mueller, J.; Laka, I. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2011
    Start page: 357 End page: 373 Vol.: 24 No.: 3
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language
    Name: Díaz, B.; Baus, C.; Escera, C.; Costa, A.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2008
    Start page: 16083 End page: 16088 Vol.: 105 No.: 42
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0805022105 ISSN or title: 0027-8424
  • International journal of psychology, Individual differences in non-native phoneme perception: Linguistic or acoustic origins
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2008
    Start page: 537 End page: 537 Vol.: 43 No.: 3-4
    ISSN or title: 0020-7594
  • The Spanish Journal of Psychology, Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Vera, F.; Larson, J.; Díaz, B.; Deco, G. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2007
    Start page: 482 End page: 482 Vol.: 10 No.: 2
  • Journal of psychophysiology, Individual differences in syntactic processing of a second language: Electrophysiological evidence
    Name: Díaz, B.; Erdocia, K.; Mueller, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Laka, I. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2006
    Start page: 228 End page: 228 Vol.: 20 No.: 3
    ISSN or title: 0269-8803
  • Journal of cognitive neuroscience, First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A.; de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Díaz, B. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2006
    Start page: 1277 End page: 1291 Vol.: 18
  • Cognitive brain research, Morphological processing in early bilinguals: An ERP study of regular and irregular verb processing
    Name: de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2005
    Start page: 312 End page: 325 Vol.: 25 No.: 1

Publications

  • The gift of language learning: Individual differences in non-native speech perception. The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism
    Name: Díaz, B.; Burgaleta, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 277 End page: 296
    ISBN: 978-1-119-38770-1
  • Bilingualism and speech perception. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Costa, A. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    ISBN: 9781405194730

Subjects taught

Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Research Projects
  • Official Master
    University Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
    • - Fundamentals of Health Psychology
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Research Projects
  • Official Master
    University Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
    • - Fundamentals of Health Psychology
Course 2022-2023 - Period: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Attention and Perception
Course 2021-2022 - Period: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Final Degree Project
Course 2020-2021 - Period: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2021
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
Course 2019-2020 - Period: 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
Course 2018-2019 - Period: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2019
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language

Academic training

  • Doctora en Ciencia Cognitiva y Lenguaje
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Lincenciada en Psicología
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencia Cognitiva y Lenguaje
  • Universitat de Barcelona

Competitive

  • On the relationship between speech perceptual flexibility and the phonological abilities of dyslexic and bilingual populations: brain electrophysiological evidence
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/09/2023 End date: 31/08/2026
    Financing entity: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
  • Estudio de la relación entre la flexibilidad perceptiva del habla y las habilidades fonológicas en población disléxica y bilingüe: evidencia electroencefalográfica
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/09/2023 End date: 31/08/2026
    Financing entity: Ministerio de ciencia e innovación Financing entity code: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • Contribuciones del análisis de voz a la percepción y aprendizaje del habla no nativa (Voz2Speech)
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/06/2020 End date: 31/05/2023
    Financing entity: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades Financing entity code: PDI2019-106924-GA-I00
  • Brain functional and anatomical correlates of variability in the degree of success in the learning of the L2 phonemes (BILBRAIN). Marie Curie Actions.
    PI: Díaz, B. Start date: 01/03/2013 End date: 28/02/2015
    Financing entity: Framework Program of the European Union Financing entity code: grant agreement 32867

Articles

Book chapters

  • Frontiers in Psychology, Second-language phoneme learning positively relates to voice recognition abilities in the native language: evidence from behavior and brain potentials
    Name: Díaz, B.; Cordero, G.; Hoogendoorn, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2022
  • Journal of neuroscience, Reduced structural connectivity between left auditory Thalamus and the motion-sensitive planum temporale in developmental dyslexia
    Name: Tschentscher, N.; Ruisinger, A.; Blank, H.; Díaz, B.; von Kriegstein, K. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 1720 End page: 1732 Vol.: 39 No.: 9
  • Neuroimage, Task-dependent modulation of the visual sensory thalamus assists visual-speech recognition
    Name: Díaz, B.; Blank, H.; von Kriegstein, K. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Start page: 721 End page: 734 Vol.: 178
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Exploring the relationship between speech perception and production across phonological processes, language familiarity, and sensory modalities.
    Name: Schmitz, J.; Díaz, B.; Rubio Fernandez, K.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Start page: 527 End page: 546 Vol.: 33 No.: 5
  • Frontiers in Psychology, Electrophysiological correlates of second-language syntactic processes are related to native and second language distance regardless of age of acquisition
    Name: Díaz, B.; Erdocia, K.; de Menezes, R.; Mueller, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Laka, I. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Vol.: 7
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00133 ISSN or title: 1664-1078
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Attention modulates somatosensory influences in passive speech listening
    Name: Schmitz, J.; Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Start page: 791 End page: 806 Vol.: 28 No.: 7
  • Bilingualism: language and cognition, Variability in L2 phonemic learning originates from speech-specific capabilities: An MMN study on late bilinguals
    Name: Díaz, B.; Mitterer, H.; Broersma, M.; Escera, C.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2016
    Start page: 955 End page: 970 Vol.: 19 No.: 5
  • PLoS One, Oscillation encoding of individual differences in speech perception
    Name: Jin, Y.; Díaz, B.; Colomer, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    Vol.: 9 No.: 7
  • Brain structure and function, Brain structure is related to speech perception abilities in bilinguals
    Name: Burgaleta, M.; Baus, C.; Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    Start page: 1405 End page: 1416 Vol.: 219
  • Frontiers in Psychology, Word frequency cues word order in adults: Cross-linguistic evidence
    Name: Gervaine, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Laka, I.; Mazuka, R.; Yamane, N.; Nespor, M.; Mehler, J. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Vol.: 4
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00689 ISSN or title: 1664-1078
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Dysfunction of the auditory thalamus in developmental dyslexia
    Name: Díaz, B.; Hintz, F.; Kiebel, S.; von Kriegstein, K. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 13841 End page: 13846 Vol.: 109 No.: 34
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119828109 ISSN or title: 0027-8424
  • Journal of neurolinguistics, Neuroanatomical markers of individual differences in native and non-native vowel perception
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Soriano-Mas, C.; Baus, C.; Díaz, B.; Ressel, V.; Pallier, C.; Costa, A.; Pujol, J. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 150 End page: 162 Vol.: 25 No.: 3
  • Language learning, First and second language speech perception: Graded learning
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 131 End page: 147 Vol.: 62
  • Journal of neuroscience, An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex
    Name: Ressel, V.; Pallier, C.; Ventura-Campos, N.; Díaz, B.; Roessler, A.; Avila, C.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 16597 End page: 16601 Vol.: 32 No.: 47
  • Learning and individual differences, Individual differences in late bilinguals' L2 phonological processes: From acoustic-phonetic analysis to lexical access
    Name: Díaz, B.; Mitterer, H.; Broersma, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2012
    Start page: 680 End page: 689 Vol.: 22 No.: 6
  • Journal of neurolinguistics, On the cross-linguistic validity of electrophysiological correlates of morphosyntactic processing: A study of case and agreement violations in Basque
    Name: Díaz, B.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Erdocia, K.; Mueller, J.; Laka, I. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2011
    Start page: 357 End page: 373 Vol.: 24 No.: 3
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language
    Name: Díaz, B.; Baus, C.; Escera, C.; Costa, A.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2008
    Start page: 16083 End page: 16088 Vol.: 105 No.: 42
    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0805022105 ISSN or title: 0027-8424
  • International journal of psychology, Individual differences in non-native phoneme perception: Linguistic or acoustic origins
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2008
    Start page: 537 End page: 537 Vol.: 43 No.: 3-4
    ISSN or title: 0020-7594
  • The Spanish Journal of Psychology, Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Vera, F.; Larson, J.; Díaz, B.; Deco, G. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2007
    Start page: 482 End page: 482 Vol.: 10 No.: 2
  • Journal of psychophysiology, Individual differences in syntactic processing of a second language: Electrophysiological evidence
    Name: Díaz, B.; Erdocia, K.; Mueller, J.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Laka, I. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2006
    Start page: 228 End page: 228 Vol.: 20 No.: 3
    ISSN or title: 0269-8803
  • Journal of cognitive neuroscience, First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A.; de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Díaz, B. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2006
    Start page: 1277 End page: 1291 Vol.: 18
  • Cognitive brain research, Morphological processing in early bilinguals: An ERP study of regular and irregular verb processing
    Name: de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Rodríguez-Fornells, A. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2005
    Start page: 312 End page: 325 Vol.: 25 No.: 1
  • The gift of language learning: Individual differences in non-native speech perception. The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism
    Name: Díaz, B.; Burgaleta, M.; Sebastian-Galles, N. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 277 End page: 296
    ISBN: 978-1-119-38770-1
  • Bilingualism and speech perception. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
    Name: Sebastian-Galles, N.; Díaz, B.; Costa, A. Role: Autor Publishing date: 2014
    ISBN: 9781405194730
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Research Projects
  • Official Master
    University Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
    • - Fundamentals of Health Psychology
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Research Projects
  • Official Master
    University Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
    • - Fundamentals of Health Psychology
Course 2022-2023 - Period: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Attention and Perception
Course 2021-2022 - Period: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
    • - Psychosocial Sciences and Mental Health
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Final Degree Project
Course 2020-2021 - Period: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2021
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
Course 2019-2020 - Period: 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
    • - Psychology
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language
Course 2018-2019 - Period: 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2019
  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Psychology
    • - Attention and Perception
    • - Memory and Learning
    • - Thought and Language