Academic education

since 2024     doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
                      Lab rotations in the orientation year: Jan Born, Caroline Rowland, and Matt Davis

2022–2023  M.Sc., Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Basque Center on Cognition Brain & Language (BCBL),
                       San Sebastian, Spain

2017–2022   B.Sc., Biology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
 

Publications

Weiss, D., McLaughlin, D. Melguy, Y., Simarro Gonzalez, M. & Kapnoula, E. (In prep) The role of familiarity in multi-talker and multi-accent switching costs

Simarro Gonzalez, M., Magnuson, J., Hannagan, T., Beck, N., Carreiras, M. (Submitted). Mitigating catastrophic interference in neural network models of bilingual lexical acquisition.

Simarro Gonzalez, M., Ni, G., Lam, V., & Demopoulos, C. (2024). Beyond words: an investigation of fine motor skills and the verbal communication spectrum in autism. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1379307. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1379307
 

Poster presentations and talks

Weiss, D., McLaughlin, D. Melguy, Y., Simarro Gonzalez, M. & Kapnoula, E. (2024) The role of talker familiarity in across-accent switching. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society’s 65th Annual Meeting, New York City, New York, USA.

Simarro Gonzalez, M. UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, NAIL lab and Center for ASD and NDDs (STAR), May 2024

Simarro Gonzalez, M., Magnuson, J., Hannagan, T., Beck, N., Carreiras, M. (2023). Mitigating catastrophic interference in neural network models of bilingual lexical acquisition.Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Marseille, France
 

Awards

1/9/2024 – 31/6/2026.     Rafael del Pino Excellence Scholarships (1,8 success rate). Award: 24,300€

1/9/2022 – 31/6/2023.     Ministry of Education MSc Scholarship University of Basque Country. Award: 6,000€ plus tuition waiver 

1/9/2017 – 31/8/2022.     Ministry of Education BSc Scholarship, University of Alicante. Award: 6,000€ plus tuition waiver 

1/2/2022 – 1/6/2022        Erasmus+ Traineeship at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Award: 3,000€

1/8/2021 – 31/1/2022.     Erasmus+ Scholarship, Exchange Semester at University of Skövde, Sweden. Award:4,000€

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