Education

Bachelor’s in Biomedical Sciences, University of Barcelona (UB)
Master’s in Neuroscience, University of Barcelona (UB) & Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
PhD in Developmental Psychology, University of Barcelona (UB)

Research Interests

My research is centered on understanding infants’ cognitive and language development during the first years of life.
I am interested in infants’ perception of audiovisual speech and their selective attention patterns to talking faces, as well as investigating potential early predictors of language development. In order to answer these questions, I combine behavioural (looking-time; familiarity-preference designs) with eye-tracking designs.

Publications

Birulés, J., Bosch, L., Pons, F., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2020). Highly proficient L2 speakers still need to attend to a talker’s mouth when processing L2 speech. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-12.

Birulés, J., & Pons, F. (2019). La importància de la informació audiovisual en l’adquisició del llenguatge. Llengua, Societat i Comunicació, 0(17), 1–10

Birulés, J., Bosch, L., Brieke, R., Pons, F., & Lewkowicz, D. J. (2019). Inside Bilingualism: Language Background Modulates Selective Attention to a Talker’s Mouth. Developmental Science, 22(3), e12755

Pons, F., Sanz-Torrent, M., Ferinu, L., Birulés, J., & Andreu, L. (2018). Children With SLI Can Exhibit Reduced Attention to a Talker’s Mouth. Language Learning, 68, 180–192

Birulés-Muntané, J., & Soto-Faraco, S. (2016). Watching subtitled films can help learning foreign languages. PLoS ONE, 11(6)