João Veríssimo
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.
News
Much press about our paper on age-related improvements in attention: The Times, Evening Standard, Público, NIH, and many others. | October
I was teaching at the summer school on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology; applications are open for 2022. | September
Our new paper reporting age-related improvements in attention/executive functions; now out in Nature Human Behaviour. | August
A new paper on analyses of rating scales with ordinal models; now out in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. | August
New preprints
Recent publications
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Karatas, Özemir, Lovelett, . . . , Veríssimo, Erçetin, & Ullman (2021, online). Improving second language vocabulary learning and retention by leveraging memory enhancement techniques: A multidomain pedagogical approach. Language Teaching Research. [doi]
Veríssimo, Verhaeghen, Goldman, Weinstein, & Ullman (2021, online). Evidence that ageing yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions. Nature Human Behaviour. [doi]
Marimon, Hofmann, Veríssimo, Männel, Friederici, . . . & Wartenburger (2021). Children's learning of non-adjacent dependencies using a web-based computer game setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:734877. [doi]
Veríssimo (2021). Analysis of rating scales: A pervasive problem in bilingualism research and a solution with Bayesian ordinal models. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24, 842–848. [doi] [preprint]
Veríssimo (2021). BLC mini-series: New statistical approaches and research practices for bilingualism research. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24, 799–800. [doi] [preprint]
Stone, Veríssimo, Schad, Oltrogge, Vasishth, & Lago (2021). The interaction of grammatically distinct agreement dependencies in predictive processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36, 1159–1179. [doi] [preprint]
Reifegerste, Veríssimo, Rugg, Pullman, Babcock, . . . & Ullman (2021). Early-life education may help bolster declarative memory in old age, especially for women. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 28, 218–252. [doi]
Reifegerste, Estabrooke, Russell, Veríssimo, Johari, . . . & Ullman (2020). Can sex influence the neurocognition of language? Evidence from Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia, 148, 107633. [doi]
Pliatsikas, Meteyard*, Veríssimo*, DeLuca, Shattuck, & Ullman (2020). The effect of bilingualism on brain development from early childhood to young adulthood. Brain Structure and Function, 225, 2131–2152. [*Equal contribution] [doi] [preprint]
Pañeda, Lago, Vares, Veríssimo, & Felser (2020). Island effects in Spanish comprehension. Glossa, 5, 21. [doi]
Ruberg, Rothweiler, Veríssimo, & Clahsen (2020). Childhood bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment: A study of the CP-domain in German SLI. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23, 668–680. [doi]