RUTH DE DIEGO BALAGUER

RUTH DE DIEGO BALAGUER

Investigadora ICREA

ORCID: 0000-0002-2357-5195
Scopus Author ID: 14621432100
Researcher ID: V-2131-2017
Knowledge area: Psicologia Bàsica

Cap d'estudis del 'Departement d'Etudes Cognitives'

Research group: IP Brain Dynamics and Structure of Human Cognition (BraCo)

Contact Information
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Pg. Vall d'Hebron 171
933125142
ruth.de.diego(a)gmail.com

Academic Training

Psicologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 06/1998 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Europ. Diploma in CBS . Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg i U.LaLaguna . 06/2001 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Psicologia . Universitat de Barcelona . 12/12/2003 . (Ph.D.)

Teaching impartedi (last 5 years)

Ments, Cervells i Màquines (University Master's Degree) - Inteligencia Artificial - Universidad de Barcelona.
Avenços en Processos de Llenguatge i Memòria (University Master's Degree) - Recerca en Comportament i Cognició - Universidad de Barcelona.
Psicologia, Llenguatge i Cognició (University Master's Degree) - Cognitive Science and Languaje - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Functional and neural dynamics related to rule extraction and word learning in the early stages of language acquisition

Research Projects

Tuning Attention during Language Learning (TuningLang) . 2013 - 2018 . Ref.313841 . Unió Europea . PI: Ruth de Diego Balaguer
Atendiendo al ritmo: predicción temporal y atención selectivaen el aprendizaje del lenguaje . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.BFU2017-87109-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Ruth de Diego Balaguer
Grup Cognició i Plasticitat Cerebral . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1573 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Antonio Rodriguez Fornells
Mención de Excelencia Maria de Maetzu al Institut de Neurociències de la Universitat de Barcelona (UBNEURO) . 2018 - 2022 . Ref.MDM-2017-0729 . Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad . PI: Jordi Alberch Vie
Rutas hacia la cognición cuando el lenguaje falla . 2020 - 2023 . Ref.PID2019-105241GB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Wolfram Hinzen

Relevant publications

García-Gorro, C.; Càmara, E.; de Diego-Balaguer, R. (2017). Neuroimaging as a tool to study the sources of phenotypic heterogeneity in Huntington's disease. Current Opinion in Neurology, 30(4), pp. 398 - 404 . https://doi.org/10.1097/WCO.0000000000000461 . ISSN: 1350-7540
Hinzen, W.; Rosselló, J.; Morey, C.; García-Gorro, C.; Camara, E.; Salvador, R.; de Diego-Balaguer, R. (2018). A systematic linguistic profile of spontaneous narrative speech in pre-symptomatic and early stage Huntington's disease. Cortex, 100, pp. 71 - 83 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0010-9452
Martinez-Alvarez, A.; Pons, F.; de Diego-Balaguer, R. (2017). Endogenous temporal attention in the absence of stimulus-driven cues emerges in the second year of life. PLoS One, 12(9), pp. 1 - 12 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Assaneo, M. Florencia; Ripolles, Pablo; Orpella, Joan; Lin, Wy Ming; de Diego-Balaguer, Ruth; Poeppell, David (2019). Spontaneous synchronization to speech reveals neural mechanisms facilitating language learning. Nature Neuroscience, 22(4), pp. 627 - 632 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1097-6256
García-Gorro, C.; Llera, A.; Martínez-Horta, S.; Pérez-Pérez, J.; Kulisevsky, J.; Rodríguez-Dechichá, N.; Vaquer, I.; Subirà, S.; Calopa, M.; Muñoz, E.; Santacruz, P.; Ruiz-Idiago, J.; Mareca, C.; Beckmann, C.F.; de Diego-Balaguer, R.; Càmara, E.; (2019). Specific patterns of brain alterations underlie distinct clinical profiles in Huntington's disease. Neuroimage-Clinical, 23, p. 101900 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2213-1582
O'Rourke, T., de Diego-Balaguer, R. (2020). Names and their meanings: A dual-process account of proper-name encoding and retrieval. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, pp. 308 - 321 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0149-7634
Martinez-Alvarez, A., Sanz-Torrent, M., Pons, F., de Diego-Balaguer, R. (2021). Rethinking attention in time: expectancy violations reconcile contradictory developmental evidenc. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 206( 105070) . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0022-0965

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Oyarzún, J.P . (2017) . Same same but different: Shaping the memory engram through learning overlapping memory events (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Martinez-Alvarez, A . (2018) . The development of temporal orienting of attention and its role in language rule learning (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Orpella, J . (2019) . Neural Determinants of Statistical Learning. Bridging Language, Attention, and Reward (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
García-Gorro, C . (2019) . A multimodal neuroimaging approach to investigate interindividual differences in Huntington's disease (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.