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 a novel method for detecting onsets of effects in visual-world eye-tracking (w/ S. Lago). | April 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
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 co-taught a course at the Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology; apply here for 2025. | September 2024
I received an award for scientific research in the language sciences at the University of Lisbon. | June 2024
Zhou, C., & Veríssimo, J. (in press). L2 difficulties in the perception of Mandarin tones: Phonological universals or domain-general aptitude?. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. [preprint]
Veríssimo, J. (2025, online). A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics, with applications to bilingualism research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. [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]