Mireia Hernández Pardo

Mireia Hernández Pardo

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0001-6819-3636
Scopus Author ID: 16401194900
Researcher ID: D-6812-2014
Knowledge area: Psicologia Bàsica

Grup de Cognició i Plasticitat Cerebral

Contact Information
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Secció de Processos Cognitius. Departament de Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació. Facultat de Psicologia. Universitat de Barcelona. Pg. Vall d'Hebron, 171 (Despatx 3504)
933 125 141
mireiahernandez(a)ub.edu

More Information: Neurolinguistics, Multilingualism and Cognition (Neuromultico) (https://brainvitge.org/groups/neurolinguistics-multilingualism-cognition/)

Academic Training

Cognitive Science and Language . Universitat de Barcelona . 10/02/2010 . (Ph.D.)
Master's degree in Neuropsychology . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 03/10/2003 . (Specialized Training)
Psychology . Universitat de Barcelona . 28/07/2000 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Neurociència Cognitiva (University Master's Degree) - Recerca en Comportament i Cognició - Universidad de Barcelona.
Tòpics en Bilingüisme (Bachelor's degree) - Psychology - Universidad de Barcelona.

Teaching Innovation Projects

RIMDA Docència Mixta. Aprenentatge Basat en Projectes (ABPr) . 2020 - 2021 . Ref.2020PID-UB/M068 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Mireia Hernandez Pardo

Research Projects

LA INFLUENCIA DE LA INFORMACIÓN PROBABILÍSTICA SOBRE ESTRUCTURA ARGUMENTAL EN EL PROCESAMIENTO DE VERBOS Y COMPRENSIÓN DE ORACIONES . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.PGC2018-094891-A-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Mireia Hernandez Pardo
FOREIGN LANGUAGE AS A FACTOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.PID2021-127053NB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Mireia Hernandez Pardo

Relevant publications

Calabria, M.; Cattaneo, G.; Marne, P.; Hernández, M.; Juncadella, M.; Gascón-Bayarri, J.; Sala, I.; Lleó, A.; Ortiz-Gil, J.; Ugas, L.; Blesa, R.; Reñé, R.; Costa, A. (2017). Language deterioration in bilingual Alzheimer disease patients: a longitudinal study. Journal of Neurolinguistics(43), pp. 59 - 74 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.06.005 . ISSN: 0911-6044
Cañas, A.; Juncadella, M.; Lau, R.; Gabarrós, A.; Hernández, M. (2018). Working Memory Deficits After Lesions Involving the Supplementary Motor Area. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, p. 765 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1664-1078
Hernández, M.; Ventura-Campos, N.; Costa, A.; Miró-Padilla, A.; Ávila, C. (2019). Brain networks involved in accented speech processing. Brain and Language, 194, pp. 12 - 22 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2019.03.003 . ISSN: 0093-934X
Hernández, M.; Palomar-García, M-Á.; Nohales-Nieto, B.; Olcina-Sempere, G.; Villar, E.; Pastor, R.; Ávila, C.; Parcet, M-A. (2019). Separate contribution of striatum volume and pitch discrimination to individual differences in music reward. Psychological Science, 30(9), pp. 1352 - 1361 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619859339 . ISSN: 0956-7976
Costumero, V.; Marin-Marin, L.; Calabria, M.; Belloch, V.; Escudero, J.; Baquero, M.; Hernandez, M.; Ruiz de Miras, J.; Costa, A.; Parcet, M-A.; Ávila, C. (2020). A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures. Alzheimers Research & Therapy, 12, p. 11 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1758-9193
Villar-Rodríguez, E.; Palomar-García, M.Á.; Hernández, M.; Adrián-Ventura, J.; Olcina-Sempere, G.; Parcet, M-A.; Ávila, C. (2020). Left-handed musicians show a higher probability of atypical cerebral dominance for language. Human Brain Mapping, 41(8), pp. 2048 - 2058 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1065-9471
Calabria, M.; Hernández, M.; Cattaneo, G.; Suades, A.; Serra, M.; Juncadella, M.; Reñé, R.; Sala, I.; Lleó, A.; Ortiz-Gil, J.; Ugas, L.; Ávila, A.; Gómez Ruiz, I.; Ávila, C.; Costa, A. (2020). Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychologia, 146:107528 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107528 . ISSN: 0028-3932
Boned, J.; Cardona, G.; Jefferies, E.; Hernández, M. (2021). The influence of language dominance and domain-general executive control on semantic context effects. Language Cognition And Neuroscience, 36(7), pp. 867 - 884 . https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1892784 . ISSN: 2327-3798
Braida, B.; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, J.; Hernández, M. (2022). The foreign language effect on motivational quotes. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(2), pp. 416 - 424 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1366-7289

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Alberto Osa García . (2017) . The adaptation of the Bilingual Language Profile questionnaire: a tool for assessing premorbid language dominance in bilingual aphasia (aBLP) (Master's Thesis) . Universidad del País Vasco.
Alba Cañas Martínez . (2018) . Detección y pronóstico del déficit en memoria de trabajo en pacientes sometidos a resección quirúrgica de lesiones localizadas en el área motora suplementaria (Master's Thesis) . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Jaume Boned Garau . (2019) . The effect of domain-general executive control mechanisms on semantic blocking in a cyclic naming paradigm (Master's Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Albert GIberga Moreno . (2021) . Bilingualism effect on third language learning (Master's Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
María Sainz-Pardo Sainz . (2021) . The protective effects of bilingualism against language decline in dementia A study in Alzheimer´s Disease (Master's Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.

Activities (stages) and Work experience

Ramón y Cajal researcher. Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit/Universitat de Barcelona. 01/04/2018 - 15/05/2023
Post-doctoral research. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL; Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain). 15/11/2016 - 31/03/2018
Post-doctoral research. Center for Brain and Cognition/Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). 03/10/2013 - 14/11/2016
Post-doctoral research. Congitive Neuropsychology Laboratory/Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). 03/10/2011 - 02/10/2013
Post-doctoral research. Center for Mind/Brain Sciences/Universitty of Trento (Trento, Italy). 01/09/2010 - 30/09/2011