I'm a researcher in psycholinguistics. My research focuses on how words are mentally represented and processed by monolingual and bilingual speakers. The main goals of my work are: (a) the description and explanation of similarities and differences between L1 and L2 processing; (b) the characterisation of individual differences in language and cognition; and (c) the development of computational models of morphology and lexicon.
I'm an assistant professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.
I am also a guest scientist at the University of Potsdam (as part of the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Limits of variability in language’), and a statistical advisor for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Here is a complete and updated CV. You can also find me on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
Please contact me by email, if you have any questions.
We are organising WoProc 2026, the International Word Processing Conference! Submit by Feb 6, 2006!
A new preprint on a novel method for detecting onsets of effects in visual-world eye-tracking (w/ S. Lago). | January 2026
I co-taught a course at the Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology; apply here for 2026. | September 2025
A new paper on the role of linguistic universals on the L2 acquisition of tones (w/ C. Zhou); now in BLC! | May 2026
I taught a workshop at Goethe University on contrasts and interactions for regression models | May 2025
I taught a workshop at Goethe University on Bayesian regression models for the language sciences | April 2025
I taught a workshop at Goethe University on Generalized Additive Models for eye-tracking data | February 2025
I received an award for scientific research in the language sciences at the University of Lisbon. | June 2024
Veríssimo, J., & Heyer, V. (in press). Bilingual morphology. In H. Nesi & P. Milin (Eds.), International encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Elsevier.
Hofmann, A., Tuomainen, O., Hanne, S., Veríssimo, J.*, & Wartenburger, I.* (in press). Auditory-perceptual acuity impacts prosodic boundary prediction in a gating task. Frontiers in Language Sciences. [*Shared senior authorship]
Avila-Varela, D., Cabiddu, F., Escrichs, A., Luegi, P., Veríssimo, J., & Jones, G. (2026). Sex differences and semantic support in toddlers' spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 265, 106466. [doi]
Zhou, C., & Veríssimo, J. (2025, online). L2 difficulties in the perception of Mandarin tones: Phonological universals or domain-general aptitude?. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. [doi] [preprint]
Veríssimo, J. (2025). A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 15, 453–486. [doi] [preprint]
Oltrogge, E., Veríssimo, J., Patil, U., & Lago, S. (2025) Memory retrieval and prediction interact in sentence comprehension: An experimental evaluation of a cue-based retrieval model. Journal of Memory and Language, 144, 104651. [doi]
Jakobi, D. N., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Hollenstein, N., Ding, C., Kaspere, R., . . . Veríssimo, J., . . . & Jäger, L. A. (2025). MultiplEYE: Creating a multilingual eye-tracking-while-reading corpus. Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 111, 1–11. [doi]
Karatas, N. B., Özemir, O., Lovelett, J. T., Demir, B., Erkol, K., Veríssimo, J., . . . & Ullman, M. T. (2025). Improving second language vocabulary learning and retention by leveraging memory enhancement techniques: A multidomain pedagogical approach. Language Teaching Research, 29, 112–149. [doi]