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Giulia Bovolenta is a Lecturer at the School of Arts, Culture and Language, Bangor University. Her research focuses on cognitive mechanisms underlying adult second language learning, particularly how individual differences and input properties affect language processing and encoding. She is PI of the 2023-2025 project 'Investigating the nature of difficulty in language learning with EEG' and has received the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2022) and the 2024 Learned Society of Wales Best Poster Prize.
Her work explores memory utilization in L2 morphology learning, declarative memory's role in generalization, and prediction errors' impact on syntactic acquisition. She has published widely on topics like verb surprisal effects, artificial language learning, and vocabulary assessment methodologies. Bovolenta actively engages in public outreach, including talks at the Hidden Worlds Science Festival and academic poster presentations.
Current research investigates declarative memory's role in explicit vs. item-based learning through pilot studies and EEG-based experiments. She collaborates with institutions like the Learned Society of Wales and mentors PhD students in psycholinguistics and language acquisition.
