Isabel Fraga Carou

Isabel Fraga Carou is a Professor of Basic Psychology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). She holds a BA in Philosophy and Education Sciences and a PhD in Psychology. Currently, she coordinates the Doctoral Program in Psychological Processes and Social Behavior, the Experimental Psychology specialty in the Master's in Psychology, and leads the Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group since 2008.

• Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela
• Spanish Society of Experimental Psychology

Her research focuses on the psychology of language, particularly brain activity linked to grammatical gender processing and its interaction with affective processing. She has developed emotional word corpora and studied lexical prevalence in Galician language. Her work includes leading regional and national projects and reviewing for high-impact journals.

The article The Galician MultiPic (2025) reflects her expertise in psycholinguistics, lexical variation, and corpus development. Her research trends integrate cognitive neuroscience, emotional processing, and linguistic analysis.

• Director of doctoral theses in linguistics and psycholinguistics
• Principal investigator for regional/national projects

She actively contributes to academic leadership through the Cognitive Processes and Behavior Research Group and initiatives like the FOLErPa perceptual experimentation tool.