Manuel Carreiras

Manuel Carreiras
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Donostia-San Sebastián
Project Leader

Dyslexia and the thalamus: integrating anatomy and function in a mechanistic account of the reading brain.

• Delineation of the reading circuit in young children based on functional neuroanatomy, brain connectivity and inter-individual variation in reading abilities.

• Focus on the role of thalamocortical circuits to explain reading and reading failure.

• Dyslexia is characterized by atypical connectivity in the thalamocortical and corticocortical circuits that orchestrate reading

• Pioneering multilevel (from neuroanatomy to behavior) and multimodal neuroimaging approach (fMRI; dMRI; qMRI) to investigate dyslexia.

• Generation of a classification model to predict dyslexia from relevant neural sources by combining multimodal neuroimaging markers (e.g., structural and functional connectivity) along with pattern recognition techniques (e.g. support vector machines and ridge-regression).

Manuel Carreiras is the scientific director of the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language). He is also IKERBASQUE research professor, Honorary Professor of the University College of London (UCL), and Distinguished Researcher of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). His research focuses on reading, bilingualism and second language learning. He is the editor in chief of Frontiers in Language Sciences, and associated editor of Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience and of Brain and Language. He has published more than 300 papers in high impact journals in the field. His research has been funded by different research agencies such as the European Research Council, ”la Caixa” Foundation, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Asociación Española contra el Cancer, and more. He has been recipient of the Euskadi Research prize 2015, and of the Spanish National Research prize in Social Sciences Pascual Madoz, 2019. (Read full CV).

Keen on neurobiology of language, with special interest in:

1. reading and reading disabilities in different scripts and in different languages

2. bilingualism and second language learning

3. comparing processing languages of the same modality (e.g., Basque and Spanish) and of different modalities (e.g., Spanish Sign Language and Spoken Spanish)

4. how do readers link multiple words into sentences and extract meaning

5. brain damage

6. brain stimulation

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