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Research interests

• Embodied Language Processing
• Language Switching
• Explicit and implicit modality switching
• Multilingual two-digit numbers processing
• Multilingual Morphosyntactic configuration processing

 

Third-party funded research projects

• Bilingual implicit modality switching: Languages (in)dependence of embodied language processing. DAAD/BECAS Chile.
• Bilingual language switching: The influence of implicit morphosyntactic configurations. DAAD/BECAS Chile.

 

Publications

Peer-reviewed

• Contreras-Saavedra, C. E., Willmes, K., Koch, I., and Philipp A. M. (in press). Interplay of morphological configuration and language switching in numerical processing and word processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
• Contreras-Saavedra, C. E., Koch, I., Schuch, S., & Philipp, A. M. (2020). The reliability of language-switch costs in multilingual one- and two-digit number naming. International Journal of Bilingualism. Advance online publication. doi.org/1367006920951873.
• Contreras-Saavedra, C. E., Willmes, K., Koch, I., Schuch, S., Benini, E., & Philipp, A. M. (2020). Multilingual two-digit number naming: The influence of composition rules on language switching. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(9), 1481-1494. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1177/1747021820916108.

Conference contributions

• Contreras S., Carla E. (2019). 21st meeting of the European Society for Cognitive psychology (ESCoP. Multilingual two-digit number naming: influence of composition rules on language switching. Cognitive Neuroscience and Psycholinguistics Research Group of the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
• Contreras S., Carla E. (2018). VII. annual meeting of Red INVECA e.V.. Mechanisms of cognitive control in language switching. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
• Contreras S., Carla E. (2018). 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP). Explicit and implicit modality switching in a naming task. Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• Contreras S., Carla E. (2017). 6. A-Dok Doktoranden-Workshop der Allgemeinen Psychologie. Bilingual implicit modality switching: Implicit modality switching in a property selection task. Semantic complexity influence?. University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
• Contreras S., Carla E. (2017). 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP). Bilingual implicit modality switching. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
• Contreras S., Carla E. (2016). LingUnite, Tag der Sprachforschung. Bilingual implicit modality switching: Languages (in)dependence of embodied language processing. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
• Contreras S., Carla E. (2016). 5. A-Dok Doktoranden-Workshop der Allgemeinen Psychologie. Bilingual implicit modality switching: Languages (in)dependence of embodied language processing. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.