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
933125155
ruth.dediego(a)ub.edu

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

Atendiendo al ritmo: predicción temporal y atención selectivaen el aprendizaje del lenguaje . 2018 - 2021 . Ref.BFU2017-87109-P . Ministerio de Economía 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

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

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.