Aina Casaponsa

Dr Aina Casaponsa is a Lecturer in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience at the School Of Social Sciences, Lancaster University, within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in bilingualism and visual word recognition from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) – University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV), and completed an internship at Bangor University. Previously, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham.

• B.Sc. Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona
• M.Sc. Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Granada
• M.Sc. Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, BCBL-EHU

Her research examines multilingual cognition, including language-selective visual word recognition, unconscious language detection mechanisms, cross-language interactions, and cognitive factors in second language learning across ages. She is particularly interested in bilingual cognitive advantages and neural correlates of multilingual processing.

Dr Casaponsa supervises PhD projects using cognitive neuroscience methods (EEG/ERPs, EDA/GSR, eye-tracking) and experimental psycholinguistics techniques. Current research projects include the MultiPic Brasil database and studies on orthotactic influences in bilingual processing. She leads the Brain and Bilingual Experience Lab (BaBEL) and the Research Group in Cognitive Linguistics.

Contact: a.casaponsa@lancaster.ac.uk