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Irene de la Cruz Pavía is an Ikerbasque Research Fellow and Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the University of Deusto (Spain), leading the Language Acquisition and Processing Lab (LAPlab). She holds dual degrees in Linguistics and German Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of the Basque Country, with a PhD in Linguistics from UPV-EHU. Her postdoctoral work included positions at the University of British Columbia (Canada), Université Paris Descartes (France), and the University of Padua (Italy) under a Marie Curie fellowship.
Her research focuses on psycholinguistics, particularly language acquisition and processing across the lifespan. Using behavioral and neuroscience techniques (fNIRS, EEG), she studies monolingual and bilingual populations, revealing infants' ability to detect structural patterns in speech, sign language, and visual stimuli. Recent work examines how cochlear implants' degraded signals affect speech segmentation in infants and explores aging's impact on bilingual linguistic abilities.
She has received prestigious awards including the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship and leads projects funded by Spain's State Research Agency. Her lab, LAPlab, pioneers interdisciplinary approaches to language development and cognitive aging.
