Eva Aguilar, the principal investigator of the I+DELab research group, has taught a course at the EOEP in Sóller on assessment in language disorders.…
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The newspaper “Última Hora” has published an article on the doctoral thesis of Víctor Sánchez Azanza, a doctoral student and professor in our research group. His work focuses on the influence of bilingualism on the brain’s neurodevelopment, mainly executive functions
The Ser radio has echoed an investigation conducted by Dr Cristian Farias, PhD student in our research group. In this research, to determine this influence, the researcher compared monolingual older people with bilingual ones. Half of the bilinguals were from a very young age (before the age of four) and the rest, from a more […]
Cristian Aranda Farías’ doctoral thesis shows that more frequency in the change between languages is related to better cognitive functions in the elderly. With aging, the brain’s cognitive abilities may deteriorate to some degree. This process, which is caused by natural causes, implies that people may begin to manifest problems related to attention span, memory […]
Physical exercise promotes long-term benefits that are key to avoiding health risk factors associated with sedentary lifestyles. Therefore, efforts aimed at improving physical activity are important, especially in the university population, whose levels of exercise often decrease drastically. A new scientific study published in the Health Informatics Journal by the UIB’s Physical Activity and Sport […]
The newspaper “El Mundo” echoes the last article published by our research group on how the use of new technologies influences language children. The results, published in the scientific journal «Children», show that pre-teens who had more access to digital devices, and who used them more often, while speaking less with their parents were those who had […]
Alberto Sánchez Pedroche, member of the research group I+DEL, will conduct next Friday the 29th of May a virtual conference where he will define the profile of students or patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), especially with de degree associated to Apserger Syndrome. One of the main parts of the conference will be, as well, […]
With the development of new technologies and digital forms of communication two new phenomena have begun to worry the scientific community: cyberbullying and internet addiction in youth. Online sites, where anonymity is easily preserved, has generated a space that hinders the detection and the control of harassment. Currently, there is an ongoing debate within the […]
The Faculty of Education of the Balearic Islands University (UIB), in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Speech Therapy, Phoniatrics and Audiology (AELFA) and the Institut de Recerca i Innovació Educativa (IRIE), have organized two conferences with leading researchers in the field of DLD: PhD. Gina Conti-Ramsden (5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.) and PhD. Kevin […]
The members of the research group I+DEL, from the Balearic Islands University (UIB), Daniel Adrover Roig, Eva Aguilar Mediavilla i Raúl López Penadés have been invited to take part as guest editors on the special issue “Executive Control and Emotion Regulation in children, adolescents, and young adults” from the prestigious International Journal of Environmental Research […]