Mikel Santesteban Insausti

 
                                                                                                       
University of the Basque Country
Dept. of Linguistics and Basque Studies
Psycholinguistics Laboratory
Unibertsitateko Ibilbidea 5
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Basque Country (Spain)
email: msantesteban@gmail.com

Phone:  +34 945 014 452
Fax:     +34 945 013 200

 

I received my B.A. degree in Basque Philology from the University of the Basque Country in 1999. I enrolled in the “Linguistics” PhD program at the University of the Basque Country, where I received my MA in 2003. In 2000 I was awarded a PhD fellowship from the Basque Government and I enrolled in the “Language and Cognitive Science” PhD program at the University of Barcelona, where I received my PhD in Psychology in 2006 with the thesis entitled “Lexical representation and selection on bilingual speech production”. In 2006 I started my post-doctoral career at the Language Cognition and Communication Research Group of the Department of Psychology (University of Edinburgh), funded by the Spanish Government (2006-2007). In 2007 I was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship to work with Prof. Martin J. Pickering. Since January 2010 I am a Juan de la Cierva researcher (funded by the Spanish Government) working in The Bilingual Mind research group in the ELEBILAB laboratory (Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country).

My research is focused on the cognitive mechanisms and representations involved in the process of language production. I approach these issues by means of experimental methods in several languages (e.g., Spanish, Catalan, Basque, English), both with monolingual and bilingual participants, and in both monologue and dialogue contexts.

Key words: Language production; Sentence production; Bilingualism; Language comprehension; Speech errors; Lexical access; Language selection.

 

Education

2006. Ph.D in Psychology. Universitat de Barcelona. Thesis entitled Lexical representation and selection in bilingual speech production.

2003. Diploma en Altos Estudios (Master thesis) in Cognitive Science & Language. Universitat de Barcelona.

2003. Diploma en Altos Estudios (Master thesis) in Linguistics. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - University of the Basque Country.

1999. B.A. in Basque Philology. University of the Basque Country.


Research Experience

Remunerated research:

2010 – 2013: Principal Investigator of the research project entitled Verb agreement encoding during language production and comprehension, sponsored by the European Commission: Marie Curie Reintegration grants.

2010 – 2013: Principal Investigator of the research project entitled Procesamiento de la concordancia verbal en la producción y la comprensión del lenguaje: Efectos de atracción de número [Verb agreement processing in language production and comprehension: number attraction effects], sponsored by the Spanish Government (Ministry of Science and Innovation).

January 2010 – December 2012: Full-time Juan de la Cierva research position awarded by the Spanish Government (Ministry of Science and Innovation).

October 2007 – September 2009: Full-time Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship awarded by the European Commission.

December 2006 – September 2007: Full-time post-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Spanish Government (Ministry of Education and Science).

May 2005 – October 2005: Participation in the research project entitled Cognitive Mechanisms and Representations involved in Speech Production, sponsored by the University of Barcelona and directed by Dr. Albert Costa (Department of Experimental Psychology - University of Barcelona).

October 2004 – March 2005: Participation in the research project Plasticity and specificity in subsystems of language in the developing brain, sponsored by the University of Barcelona and directed by Prof. Nuria Sebastián-Gallés (Department of Experimental Psychology - University of Barcelona).

October 2000 – September 2004. Full-time pre-doctoral fellowship awarded by the Basque Government.

March 2000 – September 2000: Participation in the research project A Catalan-Spanish and Basque-Spanish Comparative Study, sponsored by the University of Barcelona and directed by Prof. Nuria Sebastián-Gallés (Department of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona).

 

Non-remunerated research:

2007-2010: Participation in the research project Bilingualism and cognitive neuroscience, sponsored by the Spanish government (Dirección General de Investigación. CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010), and directed by Prof. Nuria Sebastián-Gallés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

December 2003 – November 2005: Participation in the research project The emergence of grammar in the brain: a comparative study of acquisition, processing and cortical organization of the structural aspects of language in bilingual and monolingual populations, sponsored by the European Science Foundation and directed by Prof. Itziar Laka (Department of Spanish Philology, University of the Basque Country).

November 2001- November 2002: Participation in the research project The representation of Language in the bilingual’s brain: development, maturity and pathology, sponsored by the University of the Basque Country and directed by Prof. Itziar Laka (Department of Spanish Philology, University of the Basque Country).

2001 – 2004: Participation in the research project Bilingualism, brain and knowledge acquisition sponsored by the Generalitat de Catalunya and directed by Prof. Nuria Sebastián-Gallés (Department of Basic Psychology, University of Barcelona).

1999 - 2001: participation in the research project “Ergativity and complementation in Basque language: competence, acquisition and pathology” sponsored by the Basque government and directed by Prof. Itziar Laka (Department of Spanish Philology, University of the Basque Country).

 

Teaching Experience

2010 – 2011: Fundamentos y Principios de Psicolingüística y Neurolingüística (with Dr. Adam Zawiszewski), part of the Master in Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country.

2011 – 2012: Fundamentos y Principios de Psicolingüística y Neurolingüística (with Dr. Adam Zawiszewski), part of the Master in Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country.

2011 – 2012: Applied Linguistics (with Dr. Adam Zawiszewski and Dr. Kepa Erdocia), part of the Master in Linguistics and Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country.

 

Visits to other labs
 

December 2001- February 2002: Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of the International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA (Trieste, Italy), with Professor Jacques Mehler.

July 2004 - October 2004: Cognition and Language Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University (State College, USA), with Professor Judith Kroll.


Publications

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M. J., & McLean, J. F. (2010). Lexical and phonological effects on syntactic processing: Evidence from syntactic priming. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 347-366.  [doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.07.001]

Costa, A., Albareda, B. & Santesteban, M. (2008). Assessing the presence of lexical competition across languages: Evidence from the stroop task. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11, 121-131. (download pdf)

Costa, A., Santesteban, M., & Ivanova, I. (2006). How do highly proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and Language-Specific Selection mechanisms are both functional. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 1057-1074. (download pdf)

Costa, A., & Santesteban, M. (2006). The control of speech production by bilingual speakers: Introductory remarks. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9, 115-117. (download pdf)

Santesteban, M., Costa, A., Pontin, S., & Navarrete, E. (2006). The effect of word-frequency on lexical selection in speech production: Evidence from semantic homogeneous naming contexts. Cognitiva, 18, 75-84. (download pdf)

Santesteban, M., & Costa, A. (2006). Does L1 syntax affect L2 processing? A study with highly proficient early bilinguals. In Beatríz Fernández & Itziar Laka (eds.) Andolin gogoan. Essays in honour of Professor Eguzkitza. EHUko argitalpen zerbitzua, Bilbao, 817-834. (download pdf)

Costa, A., Santesteban, M., & Caño, À. (2005). On the facilitatory effects of cognate words in bilingual speech production. Brain and Language, 94, 94-103. (download pdf)

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2004). Lexical access in bilingual speech production: Evidence from language switching in highly proficient bilinguals and L2 learners. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 491-511. (download pdf)

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2004). Bilingual word perception and production: two sides of the same coin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 253. (download pdf)


 

Presentations in Conferences

Foucart, A., Santesteban, M., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2011). The effect of L1 syntax on the agreement of L2 possessive structures: Evidence from eye-tracking. Poster presented at the 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K., Santesteban, M., & Laka, I. (2011). Are case markers like postpositions? The brain can tell the difference. Paper presented at the 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Fitzpatrick, I., Strijkers, K., Santesteban, M., & Costa, A. (2011). Bilingual disadvantage and frequency effects in language production revealed by Event-Related Potentials: Evidence from Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals. Poster presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives. Aix-en-Provence, France.

Foucart, A., Santesteban, M., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2011). The effect of L1 syntax on the agreement of L2 possessive structures: Evidence from eye-tracking. Poster presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives. Aix-en-Provence, France.

Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K., Santesteban, M., & Laka, I. (2011). Case or postposition? The brain can tell the difference: an ERP study. Paper presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives. Aix-en-Provence, France.

Fitzpatrick, I., Strijkers, K., Santesteban, M., & Costa, A. (2011). Bilingual disadvantage and frequency effects in language production revealed by Event-Related Potentials: Evidence from Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8). Oslo, Norway.

Santesteban, M., Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K., & Laka, I. (2011). Number attraction effects in object-clitic agreement in Spanish: Behavioral and Electrophysiological evidence. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics – Aristotele University of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki, Greece.

Ramón-Casas, M., Santesteban, M., Bosch, L., Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2011). Contribution of different speech cues to Basque-Spanish discrimination: Infant and adult data. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K., & Laka, I. (2011). Number attraction effects in object-clitic agreement in Spanish: Behavioral and Electrophysiological evidence. Paper presented at the 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K., & Laka, I. (2011). Number attraction effects in object-clitic agreement in Spanish: Behavioral and Electrophysiological evidence. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS). San Francisco, USA.

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P. (2011). Exploring the influence of thematic role and case marking in structural priming. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY). Stanford, USA.

Santesteban, M., Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K., & Laka, I. (2011). Number attraction effects in object-clitic agreement in Spanish: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY). Stanford, USA.

Azkarai, A., Gutierrez, J., Santesteban, M., García-Mayo, P. (2010). The role of L2 AoA on language switching costs: Only early bilinguals feature symmetrical language switching costs. Paper prestented at the Second Language Research Forum. Maryland, USA.

Hatzidaki, A., Jones, M., & Santesteban, M. (2010). An investigation of the relationship between dyslexia and bilingualism. Poster presented at the Workshop on Neurobilingualism. Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain.

Foucart, A., Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2010). The influence of L1 syntax on L2 agreement processing: Evidence from the selection of possessive pronouns/adjectives. Poster presented at the Workshop on Neurobilingualism. Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & Laka, I. (2010). Exploring the influence of thematic role and case marking in structural priming: A Basque study. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). York, UK.

Santesteban, M., Foucart, A., Pickering, M.J., & Branigan, H.P. (2010). Is selection of possessive pronouns/adjectives in L2 affected by L1 syntax? Poster presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). York, UK.

Santesteban, M., Foucart, A., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. (2009). Does L1 syntax affect L2 agreement processing? The case of Spanish-English and French-English bilinguals producing English possessive adjectives. Poster presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism: Neurobilingualism: Bilingual functioning from infancy to adulthood. Bangor, UK.

Azkarai, A., Gutierrez-Mangado, M.J., Santesteban, M., & García-Mayo, M.P. (2009). The role of L2 AoA on language switching costs: Only early bilinguals feature symmetrical language switching costs. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). Barcelona, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Foucart, A., Branigan, H.P., & Pickering, M.J. (2009). Does L1 syntax affect L2 agreement processing? The case of Spanish-English and French-English bilinguals' producing English possessive pronouns and adjectives. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP). Barcelona, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & Laka, I. (2008). Encoding similar and new agreement relations in L2: Evidence from Basque subject- and object-verb agreement by Spanish-Basque bilinguals. Poster presented at the International Conference on Models of Interaction in Bilinguals. Bangor, UK.

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & Laka, I.(2008). Encoding number agreement in L2: Evidence from subject-verb and object-verb agreement in Basque (L2). Poster presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism, Ghent, Belgium.

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & Laka, I.(2008). ¿Afectan a la producción de la concordancia objeto-verbo los mismos factores sintácticos que afectan a la concordancia sujeto-verbo? El caso del euskara. Paper presented at the 7th Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX). Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H.P., & Laka, I.(2008). Subject- and object-verb agreement in speech production: Evidence from Basque. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, USA.

Santesteban, M., McLean, J.F., & Pickering, M.J.(2008). Does phonological alignment enhance syntactic alignment during dialogue? Evidence from homophones. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Chapel Hill, USA.

Santesteban, M., McLean, J.F., & Pickering, M.J.(2008). Does phonological alignment enhance syntactic alignment? Evidence from homophones. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing(AMLaP). Turku, Finland.

Santesteban, M., McLean, J.F., Pickering, M.J.(2007). Phonological relations between lexical items do enhance syntactic priming: Evidence from homophones. Paper presented at the VIII Simposio de Psicolingüística, Mallorca, Spain.

Santesteban, M., Costa, A., Strijkers, K., & Hartsuiker, R.(2006). Highly proficient bilinguals do not inhibit the language not-in-use: Evidence from the language-switching task ERP correlates. Poster presented at the II annual Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism: Neural and Functional Perspectives. Rovereto, Italy. 

Costa, A., Srijkers, K., & Santesteban, M.(2006). ¿Inhibicion o no inhibicion? Correlatos electrofisiologicos de bilingües competentes en una tarea de cambio de lengua. Paper presented at the VIth Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX). Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 

Strijkers, K., Santesteban, M.; & Costa, A.(2006). Lexical access in bilingual speech production: ERP correlates from language switching in highly proficient bilinguals. Paper presented at The Architecture of Language. From Cognitive Modelling to Brain Mapping and Back. Pisa, Italy.

Santesteban, M., Ivanova, I. & Costa, A. (2005).The Control of Speech Production by Highly-Proficient Bilinguals: The Role of Language Similarity and Age of Acquisition. Poster presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism. Rovereto, Italy.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2005). Bilingual Language Control in Speech Production: the Role of Language Similarity, Age of Acquisition and Proficiency. Paper presented at the XIVth congress of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Leiden, Netherlands.

 Ivanova, I, Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2005). The Role of L2 / L3 on the Production of a Subsequent Non-Dominant Language: Evidence from Language Switching in Highly-Proficient Bilinguals. Poster presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Language Production. Maastricht, Netherlands.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2005). Further explorations on Bilingual Language Control in Speech Production: the Role of Language Similarity, Age of Acquisition and Proficiency. Paper presented at the VII Simposio de Psicolingüística. Valencia, Spain.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2005). Does cognate status play a role in bilingual lexical selection and representation? Evidence from a language-switching task. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB5). Barcelona, Spain.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2004). How special are cognate words? Evidence from a language-switching task.  Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF). State College, USA.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2004). How special are cognate words? Evidence from a language-switching task.  Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production. Marseille, France.

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2003). Control atencional durante la producción del habla en sujetos bilingües en tareas de cambio de lengua [Attentional control during bilingual’s speech production in language switching tasks]. Paper presented at the Vth Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX). Madrid, Spain.

Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2003). Do language-switching costs reveal different degrees of language activation? Paper presented at the XIIIth congress of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Granada, Spain.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2003). Can highly-proficient bilinguals acquire two independent syntactic systems? Influence of L1 Head-Parameter on Determiner Phrase production in L2. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP-2003). Glasgow, Scotland.

Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2002). El bilingüísmo en la producción del lenguaje [Bilingualism on the production of language]. Poster presented at the IVth Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX). Oviedo, Spain.

Santesteban, M. (2001). Semantic Interference Effects in Verbs Production. Poster presented at the XIIve Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Edinburgh, Scotland.

Santesteban, M. (2001). Efectos de interferencia semántica en la producción de verbos [Semantic Interference Effects in Verb Production]. Poster presented at the Vth Simposio de Psicolingüística. Granada, Spain.