SEPEX Keynote Lecture: Núria Sebastián-Gallés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) leads the SAP Research Group (Speech Acquisition and Processing) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra , Barcelona, Spain. Her current work focuses on the study of learning, perception, and language processing (this last with a special emphasis on bilingual population). Research in her laboratory extends from infants to adults (also with animal -comparative- approaches) with behavioral as well as physiological and brain imaging methodologies. She has co-authored over 50 publications in prestigious international journals, and has received many international awards.
Keynote Lecture: Susan Gathercole is working at the Centre for Working Memory and Learning of Psychology Department at the University of York (United Kingdom). Her current work focuses on the theoretical structure of working memory and its role in learning, especially during the school years. From a more applied point of view, she is centered on developmental disorders and the design of assessing methods and educational interventions to overcome learning difficulties. She also counts with relevant publications in prestigious international journals (Journal of Memory and Language, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition). Currently, she is co-editor of the journal Memory and member of numerous editorial boards.
EPS Lecture: Mark Johnson (7th EPS Mid Career Award Lecture, School of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London) is the head of the internationally recognized Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development. His work is mainly focused on the area of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. More specifically he is centered in the research on perception and cognition of the social (face perception, eye-gaze perception and eye-gaze cued action, the perception of human action etc.) and physical world (object processing and action, object-centred attention, visual masking, etc.)over the first years, employing neuroimaging techniques (ERP, NIRS) and behavioural testing methods. He has been awarded by the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2006 and by the British Psychological Society President's Award for distinguished contributions to psychological knowledge in 2008. He counts with publications in prestigious international journals, books and he is currently editor of the journal Developmental Science.
