2023

Drs. Nicole Wicha and Vanessa Cerda published a new article titled "Arithmetic in the Bilingual Brain: Language of Learning and Language Experience Effects on Simple Arithmetic in Children and Adults" –Mind, Brain, and Education

Antonio Allevato presented at the Cognitive Science Society Conference in Sydney, Australia on July 26-29, 2023

The research team published a new article titled "Bilingual problem size effect: An ERP study of multiplication verification and production in two languages" –APA PsycNet

The research team published a new article titled "Development is in the Details: Event-Related Theta Oscillations Reveal Children and Adults Verify Multiplication Facts Differently" –Psychophysiology

The research team published a new article titled "Self-Perception of Cognitive-Communication Functions after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury" –AJSLP

Isabella Sarno Marin became the first student at UTSA to graduate with a B.S. in Neuroscience! –#ThisIsWhatAScientistLooksLike

2022

Vanessa Cerda successfully defended her dissertation titled "Two Times Four = Dos Por Cuatro: Simple Arithmetic Processing in the Bilingual Brain" on June 3, 2022

Amandine Grenier successfully defended her dissertation titled "The Meaning of Multiplication: Electrophysiological Evidence of Semantic Memory Access and Organization in Children" on April 29, 2022

Matthew Wood successfully defended his dissertation titled "Challenging the Gold Standard in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience: Electrophysiological Studies of How We Do Arithmetic as We Grow and Comprehend Sentences as We Age" on April 5, 2022

Tara Flaugher passed her oral Qualifying Exam!

Antonio Allevato passed his written Qualifying Exam!

Vanessa Cerda welcomed a new baby in January 2022!

2021

Denhi Ekiaka Rodriguez graduated with her Bachelor's in Biology and successfully secured a position as a medical assistant, post-graduation

Doctoral students Vanessa Cerda and Tara Flaugher selected to receive highly competitive fellowships that will support their graduate studies –UTSA Today

Vanessa Cerda selected as a NIH D-DSPAN Scholar –NIH Blueprint

UTSA spotlights "Decorated Graduate" Paola Montufar Soria for 2021 Spring Commencement –Hispanic Engineering & Information Technology News

Decorated UTSA Graduate Paola Montufar Soria continuing bilingualism and math research at NYU –UTSA Today

Paola Montufar Soria featured in May 2021 Graduate and Postdoctoral Success Career Story –UTSA Graduate School

2020

Dr. Nicole Wicha named Fellow in National STEM Academy –UTSA Today

1st Year PhD student Tara Flaugher selected as recipient of a National Veterans of Foreign Wars and Sports Clip Scholarship –VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship"

Tara Flaugher's cat wins UTSA Graduate School First Friday photo contest

PhD candidate Amandine Grenier attended the 2020 Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting through a virtual platform. She presented a poster entitled "What do "two times four," "2 x 4," and "cat" have in common? An event-related potential study of arithmetic processing and language in children" –BioBeat Newsletter

Alumni News: From Science to Family -- Former lab member Bucky Aworinde will soon welcome a baby!

3rd year PhD candidate in Neurobiology Vanesa Cerda was recognized as an "Outstanding Graduate in College of Sciences" –UTSA Today

Alumni News -- Ana Godinez graduated from UT Health San Antonio School of Nursing program; Ana was part of the program's 2020 cohort

2019

Paola Montufar Soria was one of three UTSA students receiving awards at the 2019 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM conference in Honolulu

Dr. Nicole Wicha will be one of the mentors for NIH SCORE award recipient Dr. Becky Huang –UTSA Today

2015

Dr. Nicole Wicha has received an NIH grant to study how the brains of bilingual children process math –UTSA Today

2014

Dr. Nicole Wicha will collaborate with multi-year BRAIN initiative grant recipient Dr. Fidel Santamaria –San Antonio Business Journal

UTSA acquires high-performance EEG systems to advance brain research –UTSA Today

2013

Bilingual math: Are people better in their first language? –KVUE

2012

Dr. Nicole Wicha received NIH funding to explore some of her questions about how the bilingual brain handles the language of math –UTSA Discovery

Colloquium - Nicole Wicha (UTSA) "Predicting and integrating words in a sentence context" –UT Austin