Manuel Perea Lara

Manuel Perea Lara is a Professor at the University of Valencia, affiliated with the Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy and the Department of Behavioural Science. He leads research at the ERI Reading Research institute and the READit Cognitive Neuroscience and Reading group, focusing on behavioral science methodology in language processing.

He obtained his PhD from the University of Valencia in 1993 with a thesis titled Influencia de los factores de vecindad sobre el acceso léxico análisis experimentales y de simulación, supervised by Dr. Arcadio Gotor Sicilia.

His research explores cognitive mechanisms in reading, including:

• Orthographic processing and visual word recognition
• Cross-linguistic studies of writing systems
• Eye movement dynamics during reading
• Development of literacy skills in children
• Neurocognitive aspects of language in neurodiverse populations
• Experimental methodologies in psycholinguistics

Analysis of his 15 most recent publications (2024-2025) reveals strong emphasis on masked priming paradigms, cross-script comparisons (Arabic, Chinese, Javanese), literacy development interventions, and cognitive processing in autism. The work demonstrates advanced methodological rigor in exploring orthographic encoding, attentional mechanisms, and bilingual language processing.

No awards or supervised students are mentioned in available materials. His laboratory conducts innovative research using techniques like event-related potentials (ERPs) and behavioral experiments to investigate reading mechanisms across different populations and writing systems.