Victoria Cano Sánchez

Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) and a member of the BASLA Linguistics research group. My research lies at the intersection of psycholinguistics and cognitive aging, with a particular focus on how language is processed and maintained across the lifespan. I currently collaborate with Prof. Pedro Guijarro on the project Language Loss and End-State Acquisition, which investigates language decline and stabilization in late bilingualism.

To explore this topic, I use a wide range of statistical, behavioral, and experimental methods to better understand language processing, with a strong emphasis on eye-tracking and, more recently, electroencephalography (EEG). I have also worked with a wide range of populations—including young and older adults, monolinguals, bilinguals, and currently, heritage speakers—to examine how age and linguistic background influence sentence comprehension and syntactic processing.

I hold an International Ph.D. in Linguistics (Cum Laude) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). My dissertation, Age-Related Differences in Language Processing: Eye-Tracking Sentence Reading Patterns in Spanish, was supervised by Dr. Mikel Santesteban and Prof. Itziar Laka. Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned a B.A. in Translation and Interpreting (University of Málaga), and several master’s degrees in Legal Translation (University of Córdoba), Language Teaching (University of Alicante), and Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics (UPV/EHU)—an academic path shaped by my inherently curious and inquisitive nature, and a constant drive to learn and explore new disciplines.

Before entering academia full-time, I taught in the public secondary education systems in Spain and France, founded VCS Traducciones and worked as a freelance translator for institutions such as CSIC, FISABIO, and KONGSBERG MARITIME.

I am currently on the academic job market for the 2025–2026 cycle and open to research and teaching opportunities in linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics and cognitive science.

Research interests

Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language processing, (healthy) ageing, lexical prediction, agreement computation, executive functions, memory, language disorders, bilingualism, neuroimaging techniques.