I am associate professor of Psychology and work on the topic of reading comprehension and learning from text. I am also the coordinator of the PhD program Reading and Comprehension.

Lucía Fau Camarasa is a psychologist graduated from the University of Valencia and holds a higher degree in Music, specializing in Piano Pedagogy, from the "Joaquín Rodrigo" Higher Conservatory of Music of Valencia. She has complemented her education with a Master's in General Health Psychology from the University of Valencia.

Her professional career combines psychology and music. For three years, she worked as a piano teacher and later served as a Research Support Technician in a pilot project on mental health stigma in university settings ("University Observatory of Stigma Associated with Severe Mental Disorder: Contact Interventions Aimed at Reducing Stigma in University Students").

She is currently a PhD student at ERI Lectura, where she is developing her thesis within the framework of the project "D-PAL: Adaptive Program for Teaching Digital Reading Skills in Secondary Education."

Associate Professor since 2000

Laura Gil Pelluch is professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology of the University of Valencia. She is also member of the Interdisciplinary Research Structure on reading (ERI-reading). She obtained her PhD in Psychology with international mention in February of 2009 at the University of Valencia. In addition, she was a postdoctoral student Juan de la Cierva with the Research Group  "Thought, understanding and working memory" at UNED.

Her research career has focused on the analysis, evaluation and intervention in the reading comprehension processes of single and multiple texts. She has extensive experience in the design of tasks for intervention and evaluation of reading comprehension processes. She has participated in several  funded research projects related to evaluation and intervention in reading comprehension processes and executive processes.

Amelia Mañá is a professor in the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education at the University of Valencia. She is also a researcher in the Interdisciplinary Research Structure on Reading (ERI-Reading). Her academic background includes the degrees of Doctor and Bachelor in Psychology and Psychopedagogy from the University of Valencia. Since 2012 she teaches in the field of Developmental Psychology and Special Educational Needs, mainly in the Degrees of Teacher of Infant and Primary Education and in the Master in Special Education. His research has been devoted mainly to the study of cognitive processes related to reading, specifically with the processes of self-regulation of comprehension and motivational aspects that affect the process of comprehension and learning from textual information. She has participated in several projects related to the evaluation and training of comprehension processes in primary and secondary students as well as in students with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Marina Pi Ruano is psychologist by the University of Valencia. Currently, she is PhD in the Doctoral Programme in Reading and Comprehension.

Javier Roca is associate professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). He is also researcher at the ERI-Lectura (Interdisciplinary Research Structure on Reading). He obtained a Degree in Psychology (University of Valencia), a Master’s Degree in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience (University of Granada), and a PhD in Experimental Psychology (University of Granada). His research focuses on the study of cognitive processes and its application in daily living activities, such as reading or driving a vehicle. Since 2012, he has been leading a funded research line on the difficulties of adults with and without reading impairment (dyslexia) to acquire text and pictorial information from traffic signs.

Eva Mª Rosa Martínez holds a Bachelor's and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Valencia. Since 2019, she has been an Full Professor in the Department of Basic Psychology at the same university. Previously, she taught for three years at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and for fourteen years at the Catholic University of Valencia, where she served as Head of the Department of Basic Psychology and Methodology. During this time, she taught a variety of courses in the areas of methodology and basic psychological processes.

Currently, she teaches in the field of Basic Psychology, mainly in the Psychology Degree, and since the 2022/2023 academic year, she has coordinated the course Psychology of Perception and Attention.

In the field of research, she is a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Structure on Reading (ERI-Lectura), which brings together various lines of work related to reading acquisition, learning disorders, literature, and the neuroscience of reading. Her research has focused primarily on the cognitive processes involved in written language processing, vocabulary learning, and language development in populations with neurodevelopmental disorders.

She has also carried out numerous studies on emotional and cognitive processes related to quality of life and meaning in life in different populations. She has participated in several competitive research projects, the results of which have been published in both scientific and outreach journals.

Dr. Marta Vergara-Martínez obtained her Bachelor degree in Psychology (Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science) at the Complutense University of Madrid and her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of La Laguna. She is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology at the University of València, where she arrived in 2011.

Marta is the current director of the Interdisciplinary Research Structure ERI-LECTURA.

The ERI-LECTURA brings together different lines of research in READING COMPREHENSION, among others (learning, disorders, literature, digital contexts, neuroscience of reading, etc.)

Previously, she spent 4 years as Postdoc Researcher (two years as Fulbright Postdoc) at the University of California, Davis, where she carried out research on Psycholinguistics & Psychophysiology (EEG and ERP studies) under the supervision of Prof. Tamara Y. Swaab.

Marta’s expertise is on Psycholinguistics, Neuroimaging Techniques –mainly the recording and analysis of EEG and ERPs in combination with behavioral methods and Eye Movements technique - , reading acquisition and visual word recognition.

Marta’s current lines of research include a series of topics relating to: 1) psycholinguistics: disentangling perceptual vs. lexical effects in the early stages of visual word recognition; disentangling the impact of contextual diversity vs. raw frequency variables on learning new vocabulary; connecting parameters of computational models of Lexical Decision to their electrophysiological correlates; 2) Reading comprehension in special populations: orthographic and phonological encoding during the early stages of word reading in deaf readers (see our most recent publication on SCIENTIFIC REPORTS-NATURE); reading comprehension of figurative language in young readers with ASD.

Finally, in collaboration with some colleagues at the Department of Developmental Psychology, we are carrying out research to disentangle the positive effects of paper-based vs digital reading, as shown by a recent paper of this team (Delgado, P., Vargas, C., Ackerman, R., Salmerón, L., & Ibáñez, A. B. (2018). “Don't throw away your printed books: A meta-analysis on the effects of reading media on reading comprehension”. Educational Research Review, 25, 23-38). NEUROPAPEL-BBVA