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de Diego Balaguer, Ruth
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ICREA Researcher at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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After my Degree in Psychology at the University of Barcelona (UB) I specialised there in Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience for my PhD. I got my Doctoral degree in 2003 on the processing differences for regular and irregular verbs in Spanish. After my PhD, I did a three year post-doc at the INSERM U955 (Paris XII) where I studied the involvement of the striatum for learning new rules in language. I enjoyed also been maître de conferences (tenured) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Now I am back at the UB as an ICREA Researcher. My current research is focused in the cognitive functions and neural circuits engaged in the extraction of grammatical rules while learning a new language.
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Research Interest
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My research combines information from brain-damaged patients and imaging in healthy individuals to understand whether words and rules of language require different neural and cognitive mechanisms to be acquired since the earliest stages of contact with a new language. I am particularly interested in the role of the striatum as a brain structure that could make the interface between language and other cognitive functions necessary in the learning process.
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KeyWords
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Language adquisition, rule learning, striatum
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ERC Codes
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Neurosciences, The human mind & its complexity
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