PUBLICATIONS
Asterisks (*) denote student 1st authors
Dylman, A. S., Champoux-Larsson, M.-F., & Frances, C. (2025). Prosody! when intonation helps and there is
an effect. . . on listening comprehension in children. Educational Psychology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.
1080/01443410.2024.2446778
Yang*, W., Wei, Y., Rauwolf, P., Frances, C., Molina-Nieto, O., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Thierry, G. (2025). Verbal
feedback modulates language choice and risk-taking in Chinese-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language
and Cognition, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672892500029X
Frances, C. (2024). Traductores e intérpretes, ¿en qué se diferencial del resto de los mortales a nivel cognitivo y neuronal? In Casero, A & Loose M. S. (Eds.), Traducción y neurociencia. (1st ed., pp. 10-14). Rosario: CEI ediciones. ISBN 978-987-82864-7-1. https://rephip.unr.edu.ar/server/api/core/bitstreams/2d36b68f-dc6f-4bb5-b8aa-315b49dbb404/content
Peirolo, M.*, Meyer, A. & Frances, C. (2024). Investigating the causes of prosodic marking in self-repairs: an automatic process? Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. 1080–1084. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-218
Yang, W.*, Rauwolf, P., Frances, C., Molina-Nieto, O., Duñabeitia, J. A.., & Thierry, G. (accepted). Chinese-English bilinguals prefer being truthful in the native language. Frontiers in Language Sciences.
Frances, C. (2024). Good enough processing: What have we learned in the 20 years since Ferreira, Bailey, & Ferraro (2002)?. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1323700.
He, J.*, Frances, C., Creemers, A., & Brehm, L. (2024). Effects of irrelevant unintelligible and intelligible background speech on spoken language production. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218231219971.
Vives, ML., Frances, C., & Baus, C. (2023). Automating weighing of faces and voices based on cue saliency in trustworthiness impressions. Scientific Reports. 13(1), 20037. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45471-y
Harley, H. E., Fellner, W., Frances, C., Thomas, A., Losch, B., Newton, K., & Feuerbach, D. (2022). Information-seeking across auditory scenes by an echolocating dolphin. Animal Cognition. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01679-5
Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., and Martin, C. D. (2022) Speaker accent modulates the effects of orthographic and phonological similarity on auditory processing by learners of English. Frontiers in Psychology. 13:892822. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892822
Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. (2021). Inhibitory and facilitatory effects of phonological and orthographic similarity on bilingual word recognition. Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group ), 11(12812). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92259-z
Frances, C., De Bruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2020) The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning. PLOS ONE. 15(10): e0240252. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240252 [Link to full text]
Frances, C., De Bruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2020) The Influence of Emotional and Foreign Language Context in Content Learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 42(4), 891-903. https://doi.org/10.1017/S027226311900072X [Link to pre-print]
Frances, C., Martin, C. D., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2020) The effects of contextual diversity on incidental vocabulary learning in the native and a foreign language. Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group), 10(13967). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70922-1 [Link to full text]]
Frances, C., Pueyo, S., Anaya, V., & Duñabetia, J. A. (2020) Interpreting Foreign Smiles: Language Context and Type of Scale in the Assessment of Perceived Happiness and Sadness. Psicológica Journal. 41(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.2478/psicolj-2020-0002 [Link to full text]
Frances, C., Costa, A., & Baus, C. (2018). On the effects of regional accents on memory and credibility. Acta Psychologica, 186, 63-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.04.003 [Link to pre-print]
Gaspard, J. C., Bauer, G. B., Mann, D. A., Boerner, K., Denum, L., Frances, C., & Reep, R. L. (2017). Detection of hydrodynamic stimuli by the postcranial body of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris). Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 203(2), 111-120. doi:10.1007/s00359-016-1142-8 [Link to full text]
Harley, H. E., Fellner, W., Frances, C., Thomas, A., Losch, B., & Feuerbach, D. (2016). Information-seeking in an echolocating dolphin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(4), 3180-3180. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4969994 [Link to full text]
Tyler-Julian, K., Chapman, K. M., Frances, C., & Bauer, G. B. (2016). Behavioral lateralization in the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 29(1). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hg3g3vt [Link to full text]
Tzekov, R., Quezada, A., Gautier, M., Biggins, D., Frances, C., Mouzon, B., . . . Crawford, F. (2014). Repetitive mild traumatic brain injury causes optic nerve and retinal damage in a mouse model. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 73(4). doi: 10.1097/NEN.0000000000000059. [Link to full text]
Nomi, J. S., Frances, C., Nguyen, M. T., Bastias, S., & Troup, L. J. (2013). Interaction of threat expressions and eye gaze: An event related potential study. NeuroReport, 24(14), 813-817. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283647682. [Link to pre-print]
Mar. 2025
How context affects learning and memory: Psycholinguistic studies, Universidad de la
República (UdelaR, Montevideo, Uruguay [Online, Guest Lecture]
Oct. 2024
Emotionality in foreign languages and their psycholinguistic study, Universidad de Alcalá,
Alcalá, Spain [Keynote]
Oct. 2024
Translation, Neuroscience and ChatGPT: How do languages play in the mind?, Instituto
Belgrano, Rosario, Argentina [Online]
Apr. 2023
Contextual effects in new vocabulary learning in a foreign language, Instituto de
Lingüística de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jan. 2022
Translation and Neuroscience: The brain and mind of translators and interpreters,
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina [Online]
Jan. 2020
Foreign language does not make emotional concept learning more difficult, Universidad Nebrija,
Madrid, Spain
Feb. 2019
Dice Game Project, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
Apr. 2018
The effects of foreign language and emotionality on learning novel objects, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Apr. 2018
Edulabi: Emotions and Languages, Fundación IberCaja, Zaragoza, Spain
Feb. 2018
Introduction to Opensesame, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
INVITED TALKS
[accepted]
Frances, C. & Meyer, A. S., Saying “No” Is Not Always Enough: The Effect of Focus on
the Interpretation of Short Exchanges, European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP),
Sheffield, UK
May 2025
Frances, C. & Meyer, A. S., The effects of focus on the interpretation of short exchanges.,
Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF), Lille, France
Sep. 2023
Frances, C., Contextual diversity improves new foreign language vocabulary learning: The
mediating role of reading measures, Contextual Diversity Workshop, London, UK
May 2023
Frances, C., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Contextual diversity effects in foreign language vocabulary
learning: An eye-tracking study, International Symposium for Psycholinguistics (ISP), Vitoria,
Spain.[Withdrawn]
May 2022
Frances, C., Martin, C. D., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Contextual diversity boost in vocabulary
learning for the native and foreign language, SEPEX, Faro, Portugal. [Withdrawn]
Sep. 2019
Frances, C., Thierry, G., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Investigating strategic language choice in fluent
bilinguals during a deception-inducing game, Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism and
Multilingualism (BSBM), Barcelona, Spain
Sep. 2019
Frances, C., Martin, C. D., & Duñabeitia, J. A. The effects of contextual diversity on foreign
and native language vocabulary learning, Barcelona Summer School on Bilingualism andMultilingualism (BSBM), Barcelona, Spain
Apr. 2019
Frances, C., de Bruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. The influence of emotional and foreign language
context in learning, XIV International Symposium for Psycholinguistics (ISP), Zaragoza, Spain
Nov. 2018
Frances, C., Las emociones en la lengua extranjera y su impacto en el aprendizaje, SICELE
Conference, Rosario, Argentina
Sep. 2018
Frances, C., Sevilla, Y., Planelles Almeida, M., & Duñabeitia, J. A. GPS: Latin lover or naggy
spouse?, CoNSALL, Bangor, UK
Jul. 2018
Frances, C., de Bruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Foreign language does not hinder learning
emotional concepts, SEPEX-SEPNECA-AIP Experimental Joint conference, Madrid, Spain
Sep. 2017
Frances, C., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Ew! Disgust perception in native and foreign languages,
20th ESCoP, Potsdam, Germany
May 2014
Frances, C., Language change and language mixing in a proactive interference task, New
Scholars New College, Sarasota, FL, USA
PRESENTATIONS
2024
(Sep. 2024) AMLaP
—Frances, C., & Meyer, A. S. The effect of pitch accents on the interpretation of short exchanges, Edinburgh, UK
—Yang, W.*, Rauwolf, P., Frances, C. Wei, Y., Molina-Nieto, O., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Thierry, G. Strategic Language Use in Bilingual Decision-Making, Edinburgh, UK
2023
​(Sep 2023) AMLaP—Frances, C., Molina-Nieto, O., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. . How do native Spanish speakers spell novel English words? AMLaP, San Sebastian, Spain. [Poster]
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(July 2023) EPS—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. . L1 writing system influence on consonant doubling in L2 speakers of English. Swansea, UK.
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(June 2023) PaPE—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. L1 writing system influence on consonant doubling in L2 speakers of English., Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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(May 2023) PiF—Frances, C. & Duñabeitia, J. A. The mediating role of reading on contextual diversity effects in foreign language learning: an eye-tracking study, Ghent, Belgium.
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2022
(Sep 2022) AMLaP—Frances, C., Molina-Nieto, O., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. L1-L2 influence on novel word writing in an opaque language: How do native Spanish speakers spell novel English words? York, UK.
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(Jan. 2022) Workshop on Phonology and Dyslexia—Molina-Nieto, O., Navarra-Barindelli, E., Martin, C. D., & Frances, C. Spelling in an opaque second language: Evidence from Spanish-English bilinguals. Donostia, Spain.
2021
(Jun. 2021) ISBPAC—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. How modality and visual similarity affect
performance on a lexical decision task, Online
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(Mar. 2021) CNS—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. Effect of orthographic and phonological similarity and speaker accent on auditory processing by L2 learners of English. Online.
2020
(Oct. 2020) Society for the Neurobiology of Language Meeting (SNL 2020)
—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., Pinet, S., & Clara Martin. The effects of accent and likelihood on spellings of unknown words for L2 speakers of English. Online.
—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Clara Martin. Effect of speaker accent on auditory cognate processing by L2 learners of English. Online.
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(Sep. 2020) Bilingualism and the Brain workshop—Frances, C., Martin, C., & Duñabeitia, J. A. The effects of contextual diversity on first exposures to new vocabulary in a foreign and native language. Tromsø, Norway [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
(May 2020) Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (CNS 2020)—Frances, C. & Duñabeitia, J. A. The effects of contextual diversity on reading measures in foreign and native language vocabulary learning. Online.
(May 2020 ) 3rd International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2020)—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. How Modality and Visual Similarity Affect Performance on a Lexical Decision Task. Nijmegen, the Netherlands [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
2019
(Nov. 2019) CNIC PhDay: PhD… What else?—Frances, C., Martin, C., De Bruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. The effects of contextual factors on learning in a native and a foreign language. Madrid, Spain.
(Sep. 2019) 21st European Society of Cognitive Psychology Meeting (ESCoP)
—Frances, C., DeBruin, A., Duñabeitia, J. A. The influence of emotional and foreign language context in learning. Tenerife, Spain.
—Frances, C., Navarra-Barindelli, E., & Martin, C. D. Modality differences in the cognate effect. Tenerife, Spain.
(July 2019) Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA)—Frances, C., DeBruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. The effects of language and emotional context on learning. Salzburg, Austria.
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2018
(Sep. 2018) CoNSALL Conference—Frances, C., De Bruin, A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Learning Emotional Concepts in a Foreign or a Native Language. Bangor, UK
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2017
(Sep. 2017) 20th European Society of Cognitive Psychology Meeting (ESCoP)—Frances, C., & Duñabeitia, J. A. Ew! Disgust perception in native and foreign languages. Potsdam, Germany.
2016
(Nov. 2016) Workshop on Audiovisual Speech Processing and Language Learning—Frances, C., Baus, C., & Costa, A. "The Effects of Regional Accents on Memory and Credibility." Barcelona, Spain
(Oct. 2016) Workshop red Consolider Brainglot—Frances, C., Baus, C., & Costa, A. "The Effects of Regional Accents on Memory and Credibility." Barcelona, Spain.
2015
(Oct. 2015) Marcuba Conference—Bauer, G. B., Reep, R. L., Frances, C., Gaspard III, J. C., and Mann, D. “Sensory and Motor Processes of Florida Manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)” Havana, Cuba.
2013
(May 2013) New Scholars New College—Frances, C. “Interaction of threat expressions and eye gaze: An event related potential study”. Sarasota, FL, USA.
(Apr. 2013) Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (CNS)—Nomi, J. S., Frances, C., Nguyen, M. T., Bastias, S., & Troup, L. J. “Interaction of threat expressions and eye gaze: An event related potential study”. San Francisco, CA, USA
CONFERENCE POSTERS
WORK IN PROGRESS
Frances, C. Ferreira, M. C., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (in preparation). The effects of contextual diversity on reading measures: An eye-tracking experiment.
Frances, C., & Meyer, A. S. (submitted). The effects of prosodic focus on the interpretation of short exchanges. [Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/awf6s v2]
Jiang*, H., Navarra-Barindelli, E., Molina-Nieto, O., Martin, C., & Frances, C. (in prep). Crosslinguistic l1 background comparison of using graphotactic regularities and phonological context in english consonant doubling decisions [Manuscript in preparation].
Wang*, M., & Frances, C. (submitted). The effect of pitch accents on the interpretation of short exchanges by
dutch-english and french-english bilinguals.