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 contrasts between native speakers and second language learners; (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.
A new preprint on testing phonological universals in L2 tonal perception (w/ C. Zhou). | January 2025
A new preprint on an introduction to Bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research. | January 2025
I received an award for scientific research in the language sciences at the University of Lisbon. | June 2024
A new paper on the processing of action words in older adults (w/ A. Miklashevsky and M. Ullman); now out in JEP: General. | May 2024
I taught a workshop at the University of Potsdam on GLMMs and ordinal models, both frequentist and Bayesian. | March 2024
I gave a talk at the Bayesian Workshop in Lisbon on modelling between- and within-person variability. | January 2024
I co-taught a course at the Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology; apply here for 2024. | September 2023
Jakobi, Stegenwallner-Schütz, Ding, Kasperė, … Veríssimo, J., … & Jäger (in press). MultiplEYE: Creating a multilingual eye-tracking-while-reading corpus. Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications.
Veríssimo (in press). A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Karatas, Özemir, Lovelett, Demir, Erkol, Veríssimo, Erçetin, & Ullman (2025). Improving second language vocabulary learning and retention by leveraging memory enhancement techniques: A multidomain pedagogical approach. Language Teaching Research. [doi]
Miklashevsky, Reifegerste, García, Pulvermüller, Balota, Veríssimo, & Ullman (2024). Embodied cognition comes of age: A processing advantage for action words is modulated by aging and the task. JEP: General. [doi]
van Doorn, Haaf, Stefan, Wagenmakers, ... Veríssimo, … & Aust (2023). Bayes factors for mixed models: A discussion. Comp. Brain & Behav. [doi]
Veríssimo (2023). When fixed and random effects mismatch: Another case of inflation of evidence in non-maximal models. Comp. Brain & Behav. [doi]
Lago, Stone, Oltrogge, & Veríssimo (2023). Possessive processing in bilingual comprehension. Language Learning. [doi]
Ciaccio & Veríssimo (2022). Investigating variability in morphological processing with Bayesian distributional models. Psych. Bull. & Rev. [doi]
Veríssimo, Verhaeghen, Goldman, Weinstein, & Ullman (2022). Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions. Nature Human Behaviour. [doi]