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Marcela de Lourdes Peña Garay

Profesor titular

PONTIFICIA UNIVERESIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Desarrollo Neuro-Cognitivo Temprano; Lenguaje; Prematurez; Cognitive Neuroscience; Early cognitve development; Language acquisition

Educación

  •  Docteur en Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES DE PARIS. Francia, 2002
  •  Médico Cirujano, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1986
  •  Magister en Neurobiología y Ciencias médicas, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1998
  •  Pediatra, CONACEM. Chile, 1998

Experiencia Académica

  •   Associate professor Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ciencias Sociales

    Santiago, Chile

    2003 - 2008

  •   Assegnio di ricerca Other

    Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste, Italia

    Trieste, Italia

    2004 - 2015

  •   INVESTIGADOR Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile

    2005 - 2008

  •   Profesor titular Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ciencias Sociales

    Santiago, Chile

    2008 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   médico general de zona Full Time

    Ministerio de Salud de Chile

    Chiloe - Los vilos, Chile

    1986 - 1990

  •   Médico Pediatra General CONACEM Part Time

    Hospital Exequiel González Cortes, Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Sur y Consultorio La Feria

    Santiago, Chile

    1992 - 1998

  •   Profesor Asociado - Titular Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2003 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Francisco Jaume, PhD en Psicología, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Bruno Guedes, PhD en Psicología, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Cristina Jara, PhD en Psicología, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Camilo Gouet, PhD en Psicología, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Severin Lions, PhD en Psicología, Thesis Director, Universidad de Valparaíso
Lucia Melloni , PhD en Psicología, Thesis Co-Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Veronica Figueroa, PhD en Psicologia, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Francisco Ceric, PhD en Psicologia, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Gricel Orellana, PhD en Medicine, Thesis Co-Director, Universidad de Chile
Patricia Cortés, Magister en Psicología, Thesis Director, Universidad de Chile
Diana Arias, Magister en Psicología, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pamela Franco, Magister en Psicología, Thesis Director, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Otros:
Gabriela Larenas, Estudiante de Bioquímica, 2021
César Gutiérrez, Psicólogo, Ayudante de Laboratorio, actual PhD(c) in Experimental Psychology at UCL, UK
Dominique Cavallaro, Bióloga, Tesis Licenciatura en Biología, actual MSc(c) in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology), Unversity of Oxford, UK


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Beca Presidente de la Republica para estudios de docotorado en el extranjero

    MIDEPLAN Chile

    Chile, 1998

    Funds for PhD in Cognirve Sciences and Psycholinguistic, France,

  •   Collaborative Activity Award

    James S. McDonnel Foundation

    Estados Unidos, 2018

    2011; 2015 y 2018 In support of the Fifth Latin American School on Education and the Cognitive and Neural Sciences. Program Area: Understanding Human Cognition

  •   Fogarty Scholarship for Young Mentors. Minority International Research Training Program (MIRT) of the University of Michigan, United States

    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

    Chile, 1998

    Visit to the Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory, Child Development Institute, University of Minnesota. Prof. Charles Nelson. Visit to the Center for Human Growth and Development University of Michigan-Ann Harbor. Prof. Betsy Lozzof.

  •   Francisco Puelma Foundation for Research in Neuroscienc

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 1995

    1994 y 1995 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Chile. Fellowship for Graduate studies

  •   Scholarship for the financing of Graduate Thesis

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 1996

    Magister's Thesis: "Sleep states modulate the electro-retinographic response during early development."

  •   Abraham Stekel scholarship for young post-graduate students

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 1997

    1995 & 1996 Abraham Stekel scholarship for young post-graduate students. INTA Universidad de Chile

  •   Exemplifying the Mission of IMBES Award

    International Mind, Brain and Education Society

    Estados Unidos, 2014

    Como creador de la "The Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences" Recognizes Pre K-12 educators, institutions or programs demonstrating success in establishing, building and supporting infrastructure that enhances collaboration between themselves and MBE researchers for the purpose of improving educational knowledge and practice. We seek to honor the creators of infrastructure that models how productive collaboration can unfold in the field of Mind, Brain and Education.

  •   UNESCO senior fellowship

    IBE/UNESCO

    Suiza, 2022

    Three months for training and writting deliverables about preschool learning

  •   UNESCO Chair on Science for Education

    IBE/UNESCO

    Chile, 2022

    UNESCO Chair on Science for Education (2022), Main investigator: Roberto Lent from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (1584). The main goal of the Chair is to promote Neuroscience knowledge to educational society


 

Article (41)

A brief tablet-based intervention benefits linguistic and communicative abilities in toddlers and preschoolers
Editorial: Early development of sound processing in the service of speech and music perception
Editorial: Socially Situated? Effects of Social and Cultural Context on Language Processing and Learning
Electroencefalografía y seguimiento de mirada: Dos técnicas para evaluar la adquisición de la lengua materna en niños pequeños
Electroencephalography and Eye-Tracking: Two Techniques Used to Measure Early Speech and Language Acquisition in Infants
Bias and noise in proportion estimation: A mixture psychophysical model
Infants exploit vowels to label objects and actions from continuous audiovisual stimuli
Neural indicators of articulator-specific sensorimotor influences on infant speech perception
Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language
Effect of feeding mode on infant growth and cognitive function: study protocol of the Chilean infant Nutrition randomized controlled Trial (ChiNuT)
Severe respiratory disease caused by human respiratory syncytial virus impairs language learning during early infancy
Training nonsymbolic proportional reasoning in children and its effects on their symbolic math abilities
Cognitive and Neural Effects of a Brief Nonsymbolic Approximate Arithmetic Training in Healthy First Grade Children
Listening Natively Across Perceptual Domains?
Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Interaction: The Communcative Value of Infant-Directed Talking and Singing
Reading Comprehension in Latin America: Difficulties and Possible Interventions
Electrophysiological evidence of statistical learning of long-distance dependencies in 8-month-old preterm and full-term infants
Gaze Following Is Accelerated in Healthy Preterm Infants
Educating to Build Bridges
Brain Oscillations during Spoken Sentence Processing
Earlier Speech Exposure Does Not Accelerate Speech Acquisition
Executive attention impairment in first-episode schizophrenia
How Modality Specific Is the Iambic-Trochaic Law? Evidence From Vision
The Role of Audiovisual Processing in Early Conceptual Development
Language acquisition in premature and full-term infants
Phonological acquisition in preterm infants
Investigating the neural correlates of continuous speech computation with frequency-tagged neuroelectric responses
The neonate brain detects speech structure
What Infants Know and What They have to Learn about Language
Synchronization of neural activity across cortical areas correlates with conscious perception
Neuroanatomical basis of behavioral disturbances in patients with prefrontal lesions
The soul" of language does not use statistics: Reflections on vowels and consonants"
Why is language unique to humans?
Linguistic constraints on statistical computations - The role of consonants and vowels in continuous speech processing
Phoneme perception in a neonate with a left sylvian infarct
Sounds and silence: An optical topography study of language recognition at birth
A new sign of callosal disconnection syndrome: Agonistic dyspraxia. A case study
Signal-driven computations in speech processing
Electrophysiological evidence for automatic phonetic processing in neonates
The effect of sleep state on electroretinographic (ERG) activity during early human development
Effect of early human development on the modulation of the sleep nates (SS) on dectrophfsialofical ratiial respoise (ERR)

BookSection (4)

Infants’ early competence for language and symbols
Modelos Cognitivos del Lenguaje
Neuroimagen y cognición
Why is Language Unique to Humans?

ConferencePaper (3)

Interactive System for Language and Communication Stimulation Directed to Young Children
Brain-function measurement using near-infrared topography on neonates.
Development and application of optical topography for human brain functions - new measurement methodology for infant brain functions

ConferencePoster (1)

Optical Topography And ERP Study Of Speech Perception Changes Following Cochlear Implantation: A Case Study

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On consonants, vowels, chickens, and eggs
How to hit Scylla without avoiding charybdis: Comment on Perruchet, Tyler, Galland, and Peereman (2004)

Patent (1)

Biophotometer

Proyecto (24)

Exploring the role of speech and brain synchrony on word learning during infancy: A cross linguistic study
Sistema Interactivo de Promoción del Lenguaje y la Comunicación (SIPLYC)
Neural mechanisms of learning in the infant brain=> from Statistics to Rules and Symbols. BabyLearn
Oscillatory Rhythmic Entrainment and the Foundations of Language Acquisition. BabyRhytm.
The 5th Latin American School for Neuroscience, Cognition and Education.
The role of experience on early development of approximate number system, a precursor of math abilities.
SIEL=> Sistema de estimulación del Lactante.
Habilidades lingüísticas del menor de un año=> comparación de bebés nacidos prematuros de muy bajo peso de nacimiento y nacidos de término
What and how do the infants learn from their caregivers?
Annual Summer School In Cognitive Science, Neuroscience and Education
Estudio de la relación del desarrollo del lenguaje y del pensamiento simbólico en niños con y sin riesgo cognitivo
Plan de Desarrollo en Neurociencias Cognitivas
Habilidades lingüísticas del menor de un año=> comparación de bebés nacidos prematuros de muy bajo peso de nacimiento y nacidos de término
Estudio de los efectos del desarrollo intencional de gestos simbólicos en lactantes
Arquitectura del control cognitivo en la corteza prefrontal humana=> Evaluación del modelo cascada en pacientes con lesiones prefrontales y aplicación al procesamiento emocional
Bases cerebrales de la adquisición de la lengua materna en niños nacidos de término y prematuros. De lo universal a lo particular
Organización cerebral durante la adquisición de la lengua materna=> Un estudio trans-lingüístico
Mecanismos neurobiológicos de la adaptación del comportamiento=> Estudio neuropsicológico y en resonancia nuclear magnética tridimensional en pacientes con lesiones prefrontales
Plasticity and specificity in subsystems of language in the developing brain
Prevención Primaria en Retinosis Pigmentaria
Retraso de la Neuromaduración en niños con déficit de fierro
Estudio de la interacción del ritmo cardiaco y respiratorio, y la regulación por el Sistema Nervioso Autónomo
Estudio de la interacción del ritmo cardiaco y respiratorio, y la regulación por el Sistema Nervioso Autónomo
¿Son los ácidos grasos omega 3 esenciales para el desarrollo visual?

Review (2)

Neuroscience and education: prime time to build the bridge
THE LINGUISTIC SKILLS OF INFANTS UNDER THE AGE OF ONE YEAR
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Marcela Peña

Profesor titular

Psicologia

PONTIFICIA UNIVERESIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

5
Andrea Slachevsky

Associate Professor

ICBM

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Chile, Chile

2
María Jara

Profesor Asistente

Fonoaudiología

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Ricardo Uauy

Professor

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Cecilia Algarin

PROFESOR ADJUNTO

LABORATORIO DE SUEÑO Y NEUROBIOLOGIA

INTA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Karen Bohmwald

Académico Investigador

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Camilo Gouet

Research assistant

Psicologia

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Patricio Peirano

Profesor Titular, Jefe de Laboratorio

INTA

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Arturo Borzutzky

Chief; Associate Professor

Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Bruno Siqueira

PhD Student

Psychology

PUC

Santiago, Chile

1
gricel orellana

profesora asociada

psiquiatría

Universidad de Chile

santiago, Chile

1
Severin Lions

Investigador Asociado

Center for Advanced Research in Education, Institute of Education

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Enrica Pittaluga

Médico asistencial

Pediatría

Complejo asistencial Dr Sótero del Río

Santiago, Chile

1
Eugenio Rodriguez

Profesor asociado

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, ESCUELA DE PSICOLOGIA

Santiago, Chile

1
carolina iturriaga

Sub Directora Laboratorio de inmunología y Alergia Traslacional UC

Pediatria

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

santiago, Chile

1
Francisco Aboitiz

Profesor

Psychiatry

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

santiago, Chile

1
Esteban Pino

Profesor Asociado

Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad de Concepción

Concepcion, Chile