People
Antonio Iniesta
Faculty and researchers
Writing is a fundamental skill in academic, professional, and social domains, and typing has become a primary mode of global communication central to academic performance and assessment. My research program aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical and empirical framework for written language processing, with a particular focus on bilingualism and learning difficulties. My work follows two main lines: (1) developmental and intervention-based research on writing difficulties in children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities, and (2) experimental research on typing in adult bilinguals. During my PhD, I investigated how multiple languages interact during typing, demonstrating cross-linguistic coactivation and experience-dependent effects across different bilingual populations. As a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University (Canada), I expanded this work to include eye-tracking, ERP, and sociolinguistic approaches, contributing to projects on text comprehension, multilingual processing, and socially situated language use. I am currently based at the University of Granada (CIMCYC) as a recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship DGP_POST_2024_00364 (Junta de Andalucía / FSE+), where I am developing an integrated research program on writing and bilingualism across the lifespan. I actively collaborate with Bilingualism Matters and the Montréal Bilingualism Initiative (MoBI), promoting accessible dissemination of scientific knowledge on bilingualism for schools, families, professionals, and policymakers.
Conference Presentations
Authors: Iniesta, A., Yang, M., Beatty-Martinez, A., Itzhak, I., Gullifer, J., & Titone D. Title: Leveraging Social Network Data to Ground Multilingual Background Measures: Validating Entropy Part1. Modality: Poster. Congress: Words in the World International Conference (WOW2023). Place: Virtual, Canada. Year: 2023
Authors: Iniesta, A., Bajo, M.T., Rivera, M., Titone, D., & Paolieri, D. Title: Transfer effects from language processing to visual attention dynamics: The impact of orthographic transparency. Modality: Poster. Congress: 24th Annual Neuropsychology Day and Brenda Milner Lecture: Functional Specializations in the Cortex in Humans: Which, When, and Why? Place: Montreal, Canada. Year: 2023
Authors: Iniesta, A., & Titone, D. Title: Sociolinguistic context impacts on language use, and cognition: rethinking multilingual experience. Modality: KEYNOTE. Congress: iBrain Erasmus International Symposium on Heritage Bilingualism. Place: Hyderabad, India. Year: 2023
Authors: Iniesta, A., Rossi, E., Paolieri, D., Titone, D., & Bajo, M.T. Title: The impact of learning background in bilingual writing. Modality: Poster. Congress: PsychoShorts 2023. Place: Ottawa, Canada. Year: 2023
Authors: Mansuri, N., Iniesta, A., Hernandez-Rivera, E., Palma, P., & Titone, D. Title: How does a Person’s L1 Writing Script Impact L2 Reading in a Same or Different Script?. Modality: Poster. Congress: 33rd Annual Meeting of the CSBBCS /SCSCCC. Place: Ontario, Canada. Year: 2023
Authors: Basoglu, E., Hodgins, V., Iniesta, A., & Titone, D. Title: Exploring the trait-like and state-like effects on mentalizing. Modality: Poster. Congress: Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music CRBLM Scientific Day. Place: Montreal, Canada. Year: 2023
Authors: Casado, A., Pérez, A., Iniesta, A., Benigno, G., Arribas, J., Bajo, T. Paolieri, D. Title: The Bi-Multilingualism Prism. Modality: Poster. Congress: – CIMCYC 10th Anniversary Research Conferences, Past, Present and Future. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2023
Authors: Bajo, T., Bellergada, M., Iniesta, A., López-Rojas, C., Marful, A., Paolieri, D., Reyes, M., & Rivera, M. Title: Disseminating from scientific evidence. Modality: Poster. Congress: – V Jornadas de Investigación del CIMCYC. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2022
Authors: Bellergada, M., Iniesta, A., López-Rojas, C., Reyes, M., & Rivera, M. Title: How do multiple languages coexist in the brain? Transferring research from the laboratory to society. Modality: Poster. Congress: – IV Jornadas de Investigación del CIMCYC. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2021
Authors: Iniesta, A., Rossi, E., Bajo, M.T., & Paolieri, D. Title: The interplay of orthographic and phonological similarity during bilingual writing production. Modality: Poster. Congress: XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Place: Online. Year: 2021.
Authors: Iniesta, A., Rossi, E., Bajo, M.T. & Paolieri, D. Title: The cognate effect in word writing: evidence from late bilinguals and heritage speakers. Modality: Poster. Congress: Virtual Conference of Experimental Psychology SEPEX. Place: Online. Year: 2021.
Authors: Iniesta, A., Paolieri, D., & Bajo, M.T. Title: Attentional effects associated with the processing of transparent and opaque languages. Modality: Poster. Congress: Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium. Place: University of Edinburgh/Online. Year: 2020.
Authors: Iniesta, A. Title: Writing production in bilingualism. Modality: Conference. Place: Ph.D. Program of University of Granada, Spain. Year: 2020.
Authors: Iniesta, A. Title: Writing Production in Bilingualism. Modality: Conference. Linguistic Seminar in the University of Florida. Place: Gainesville, USA. Year: 2019.
Authors: Iniesta, A., Paolieri, D., Serrano, F., & Bajo, M.T. Title: Cross-linguistic orthographic effect in bilingual writing production. Modality: Poster. Congress: 5th Annual Florida Psycholinguistics Meeting. Place: Miami, USA. Year: 2019.
Authors: Iniesta, A., Paolieri, D., Serrano, F., & Bajo, M.T. Title: Bilingual writing co-activation: lexical and orthographic processing in a word dictation task. Modality: Poster. Congress: XIV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Place: Tarragona, Spain. Year: 2019.
Authors: Iniesta, A., Rivera, M., García-Gámez, A., & Quesada, T. Title: Lights and Shadows of bilingualism. Modality: communication. Congress: Conference for Researchers in Training Promoting Interdisciplinarity [III Jornadas de Investigadores en Formación Fomentando la Interdisciplinariedad (JIFFI)]. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2019.
Authors: Iniesta, A., Andras, F., Bajo, M.T., & Paolieri, D. Title: Orthographic co-activation in bilingual writing. Modality: communication. Congress: Conference for Researchers in Training Promoting Interdisciplinarity [II Jornadas de Investigadores en Formación Fomentando la Interdisciplinariedad (JIFFI)]. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2018.
Authors: Mata, S. Iniesta, A., & Serrano, F. Title: Assessment of the Learning Potential of Writing. Modality: poster. Congress: XXX Internacional AELFA-IF/CLPV Congress [Spanish Association of Speech Therapy, Phoniatrics and Audiology]. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2018
Authors: Iniesta, A., Conejero, A., Pozuelos, J.P., Rueda, R., & Serrano, F. Title: Study of the neural correlates associated with spelling decisions. Evidence in students with learning difficulties. Modality: poster. Congress: XXX Internacional AELFA-IF/CLPV Congress [Spanish Association of Speech Therapy, Phoniatrics and Audiology]. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2018
Authors: Iniesta, A., Ruz, A., & Serrano, F. Title: Intervention for the improvement of writing and spelling in students with special educational needs (SEN). Modality: communication. Congress: II International Congress 2017: Society, Education and Inclusion. Place: Granada, Spain. Year: 2017.
Authors: Iniesta, A., and Serrano, F. Title: Design of an intervention program for the improvement of writing and spelling. Modality: poster. Congress: XXX International Congress AELFA-IF/CLPV (Spanish Association of Speech Therapy, Phoniatrics and Audiology). Place: Bilbao, Spain. Year: 2016.
