Monica Sanz Torrent

Mònica Sanz-Torrent is a researcher at the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Psychology, specializing in psycholinguistics and language pathology. She collaborates with the Grup de Recerca en Cognició i Llenguatge (GRECIL), a joint research group between the University of Barcelona (UB) and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Her work focuses on developmental language disorders in children using eye-tracking methodologies.

• Key Research Areas: Psycholinguistics, Visual Attention, Developmental Language Disorders
• Collaborations: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Generalitat de Catalunya

Research Trends (2017-2021): Recent studies investigate real-time language processing in children with developmental language disorders, with particular emphasis on prepositions, articles, and verb structures. Eye-tracking techniques play a central role in her research to analyze visual attention patterns during language comprehension tasks.

Scientific Contributions:

• Ref.EDU2016-75368-P (2017-2019): Implicit Learning in Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
• Ref.2017 SGR 387 (2018): Collaborative research on language processing

Advising Experience: Supervised doctoral theses on topics including language comprehension in children with SLI (Spyros Christou, 2018), phonological memory in children with reading difficulties (Raquel Balboa Castells, 2018), and statistical word learning in Catalan-Spanish children with SLI (Nadia Ahufinger Sanclemente, 2019).