October 2018 - Present
PhD, Biomedecine; Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain); Supervisor: Núria Sebastian-Galles.
October 2017 - July 2018
MSc, Neurosciences; University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). Dissertation: Phonemic Contrast Perception: A Segmentation Study on Monolingual and Bilingual Infants; Supervisors: Núria Sebastian-Galles and Chiara Santolin.
September 2013 - July 2017
BSc, Psychology; University of Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain). Dissertation: Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Attention, Spatial Reference Memory, and Cytochrome C Oxidase Activity; Supervisors: Azucena Begega and Marcelino Cuesta.
Santolin, C., García-Castro, G., Zettersten, M., Sebastian-Galles, N., Saffran, J. (2020). Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference. Infancy, 00, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12372 [preprint] [OSF] [code]
Sampedro-Piquero, P., Álvarez-Suárez, P., Moreno-Fernández, R., García-Castro, G., Cuesta, M., Begega, A. (2018). Environmental enrichment results in both brain connectivity efficiency and selective improvement in different behavioral tasks. Neuroscience, 388, 374-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.07.036
Santolin, C., García-Castro, G., Zettersten, M., Sebastian-Galles, N., & Saffran, J. (2020, March 4). Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xgvbh
Garcia-Castro, G., Siow, S., Sebastian-Galles, N. and Plunkett, Kim (August, 2021). The impact of cognateness on bilingual lexical access: a longitudinal priming study. Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (Lancaster, United Kingdom, held online).
Garcia-Castro, G., Siow, S., Sebastian-Galles, N. and Plunkett, Kim (June, 2021). The role of cognateness in nonnative spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the XV International Symposium of Psycholinguistics (Madrid, Spain, held online).
Garcia-Castro, G., Siow, S., Sebastian-Galles, N. and Plunkett, Kim (July, 2020). The role of lexical similarity on bilingual parallel activation: A priming study in toddlers. Poster presented at the International Congress on Infant Studies (Edimburgh, United Kingdom, held online). proceedings
Garcia-Castro, G., Avila-Varela, D., and Sebastian-Galles, N. (July, 2020). Does phonological overlap across translation equivalents predict earlier age of acquisition?. Poster presented at the International Congress on Infant Studies (Edimburgh, United Kingdom, held online). proceedings
Siow, S., Garcia-Castro, G., Sebastian-Galles, N., and Plunkett, K. (August, 2019). The impact of phonology (cognateness) on the bilingual lexicon: Parallel cross-language phonological priming. Poster presented at the Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development (Lancaster, United Kingdom).
Garcia-Castro, G., Marimon, M., Santolin, C., and Sebastian-Galles, N. (June, 2019). Encoding new word forms when contrastive phonemes are interchanged: A preliminary study on 8-month-old infants. Poster presented at the Workshop in Infant Language Development (Potsdam, Germany). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GYKUH
García-Castro, G., Álvarez-Suárez, P., García-Abad, N., Cuesta, M., and Begega, A. (June, 2017). Pro-cognitive effects of environmental enrichment on attention and spatial memory: hippocampal metabolic activity in a Wistar rat model. Poster presented at the 4th International Congress on Health and Aging Research (Murcia, Spain).
García-Abad, N., Santirso, M., García-Castro, G., and Álvarez-Suárez, P. (June, 2017). Efectos del omega-3 en las redes implicadas en la memoria de trabajo espacial en ratas Wistar. Poster presented at the 3rd National Congress of Psychology (Oviedo, Spain)
Siow, S., Garcia-Castro, G., Sebastian-Galles, N., and Plunkett, K. (August, 2019). An alternative approach to defining cross-linguistic phonological similarity using a model of monolingual speech recognition. Short talk at the conference for Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (Paris, France, held online). proceedings
Zacharaki, K., García-Castro, G. (2019, October). “Descubriendo la mente de los bebés” Talk presented at 13a Festa de la Ciència, Barcelona, Spain. [Link] [Video]
García-Castro, G., Avila-Varela (2019, October). “Estudiando la mente de los bebés: Desde el lenguaje hasta la lógica” Talk presented at Centre Cívic, Barcelona, Spain. [Link] [Video])
García-Castro, G., Santolin, C., Marimon, M., and Sebastian-Galles, N. (2019, October 22th). Segmentation: Catalan and Spanish natural speech segmentation at 8 months of age. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/42GUP)
Santolin, C., García-Castro, G., Zettersten, M., Sebastian-Galles, N., & Saffran, J. (2020, March 5). Flip: Experience with research paradigms relates to infants’ direction of preference. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/G95UB
Research Staff Certificate for animal research, issued on 15/05/2018 by the Direcció General de Polítiques Ambientals i Medi Natural.
tidyverse family of packages. with some time, I can also google my way through Python.lme4) and Bayesian (brms); reproducible reports using RMarkdown. I can also perform acoustic analysis on stimuli using Praat, and one of its R interfaces (PraatR).ggplot2. I can make animations using gganimate, and I’m currently learning to make maps, and Shiny Apps.August 2018
Data Science: Multiple imputation in practice, Utrecht Summer School, Utrecht University. Introduction to Multiple Imputation as a powerful tool for dealing with missing data in experimental studies.
August 2018
Data Science: Statistical Programming with R, Utrecht Summer School, Utrecht University.
August 2016
Introduction to Neuroscience: From Molecule to Behavior, Radboud Summer School, Radboud University Nijmegen. Hands-on training at research labs of the Donders Institute for Brain and Cognition.
August 2016
How to Improve the Quality and Translatability of Preclinical Animal Studies, Radboud Summer School, Radboud University Nijmegen. Course organized by SYRCLE institute, Radboud University Nijmegen and Radboud University Medical Centre. Theory and hands-on experience on Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in preclinical animal studies. Overview of the main software available to conduct a Meta-Analysis and basic formation on academic reading and writing.