Intereses de investigación. Mis áreas de estudio son la psicología del lenguaje y sus interacciones con la cognición, la psicología del desarrollo y la educación. En los últimos años, mi investigación se centra en cuatro líneas principales: 1) la relación lenguaje-pensamiento desde la Lingüística Cognitiva, 2) la importancia del uso del lenguaje y la construcción narrativa en áreas de la educación, 3) el estudio de encuadres (framing) mediático y construcción de opinión sobre cuestiones sociales y políticas, y 4) relación entre la transmisión cultural y la evolución del lenguaje. La metodología de investigación con la que trabajo es interdisciplinaria: Análisis cuantitativos de datos, experimentos con sujetos humanos y análisis de discurso.

Docencia Tengo experiencia dictando cursos de pregrado y posgrado en las siguientes áreas: Psicología del Lenguaje, Percepción y Memoria; Psicolingüística; Diseño y Métodos de Investigación cuantitativos y cualitativos.

Research Interests. My areas of study are the psychology of language and its interactions with cognition, developmental psychology, and education. In recent years, my research concentrates in four main lines: 1) the language-thought relationship from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective, 2) the importance of language use and narrative construction in areas of education, 3) the study of frames (framing) media and construction of opinion on social and political issues, and 4) relationship between cultural transmission and the evolution of language. The research methodology I use is interdisciplinary: quantitative data analysis, experiments with human subjects, and discourse analysis.

Publicaciones/Publications:

• Khatin-Zadeh, O.; Farsani, D.; Reali, F. (2022) A study of using metaphoric and beat gestures with motion-based and non-motion-based metaphors during Retelling Stories. Behavioral Sciences, 12 (5), 129. [DOI]
• Khatin-Zadeh, O., Reali, F., Farsani, D (in press). Mechanisms involved in the formation of metaphorical classes within the framework of the class-inclusion model of metaphor comprehension. To appear in Public Journal of Semiotics.
• Khatin-Zadeh, O., Eskandari, Z., Reali, F., Banaruee, P., & Marmolejo-Ramos, F. (in press). Are metaphorical classes essentially abstract? To appear in Cognitive Linguistic Studies.
• Viera, A. y Reali, F. (2022). Estudio sobre producción del lenguaje en niños con parálisis cerebral usuarios de Comunicación Aumentativa y Alternativa. Revista Colombiana de Educación, 85(2), 216-237 [link]
• Khatin-Zadeh, O.; Farsani, D.; Reali, F. (2022) A study of using metaphoric and beat gestures with motion-based and non-motion-based metaphors during Retelling Stories. Behavioral Sciences, 12, 129. [DOI]
• Reali, F. (2021). Metaphorical framing of feminism and women in Spanish online media. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 16(4): 350-364 [DOI]
• Viera, A. y Reali, F. (2021). Comunicación en el aula: estudio de casos de valoración docente sobre implementación de sistemas de comunicación aumentativa y alternativa en educación especial en Uruguay. Psicología, Conocimiento y Sociedad, 11(1), 148-176. [DOI]
• Reali, F. (2020). La verdad y las masas en tiempos de posverdad. Cythére?: Revista de la Red Universitaria Americana, 3. ISSN: 2617-4790 [link]
• Viera, A., y Reali, F. (2020). Comunicación aumentativa y alternativa y construcción narrativa en niños con parálisis cerebral. Polyphonia. Revista de Educación Inclusiva, 4 (1), 231-253 [link]
• Reali, F. (2020). Emotion metaphors in James Joyce´s A portrait of the artist as a young man. Journal of Literary Semantics, 49(1), 41-60.
• Reali, F., Lleras, M., & Alviar, C. (2019). Asymmetrical time and space interference in Tau and Kappa effects. Cogent Psychology, 6(1), 1568069.
• Aristizabal, D., y Reali, F. (2019). Language complexity and intersubjectivity in narratives written by Colombian children. Human Arenas 1 84), 1-14. [DOI]
• Viera A, Reali F, Chiarino N, Cuevasanta D, Duque G, Fernandez J. (2019) Sistemas aumentativos y alternativos de comunicación: El caso de la parálisis cerebral en la educación especial pública uruguaya. Psicología y Educación del Siglo XXI Vol 3 (ISBN 9789974016958) pp. 65-72. Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay
• Reali, F., & Riaño, C. (2018). Emotion metaphors in Spanish retain aspects of spatial meaning. Metaphor and the Social World, 8(2), 229-246.[DOI]
• Reali, F., Chater, N, & Christiansen, M. (2018). Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language. Proc. R. Soc. B 20172586. (ISSN 0962-8452) 285 (1871), pp. 1-6.[DOI]
• Reali, F. & Lleras, M. (2017). Perspectives in motion: The case of metaphorical temporal statements in Spanish. Language and Cognition, 9 (1), pp.172-190. [DOI]
• Chaparro-Moreno,J., Reali, F., y Maldonado-Carreño, C. (2017). Wordless Picture Books Boost Preschoolers' Language Production during Shared Reading. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 40, 52-62. [DOI]
• Reali F. (2017). Acceptability of dative argument structure in Spanish: Assessing semantic and usage-based factors. Cognitive Science Journal, 41 (8), 2170-2190 Published online 30 November 2016. [DOI]
• Reali, F., Soriano, T. & Rodríguez, D. (2016). How we think about depression: The role of metaphorical framing. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 48 (3), 127-136. [DOI]
• Reali, F., Jiménez-Leal, W., Maldonado-Carreño, C., Devine, A., & Szucs, D. (2016) Examining the link between math anxiety and math performance in Colombian students. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 25 (2), 369-379. [DOI]
• Reali, F. & Arciniegas, C. (2015). Metaphorical conceptualization of emotion in Spanish: Two studies on the role of framing. Metaphor and the Social World, 5 (1), 20-42. [DOI]
• Lleras, M., Reali, F., Alviar, C., & Bermudez, M.P. (2014). The metaphors we speak with affect how we think about time and space. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1258-1264). Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society (ISBN: 978-0-9911967-0-8). [Abstract]
• Reali F. (2014). The processing of object relative clauses in Spanish: some evidence in favor of usage-based accounts. Language Learning, 64(3), 685-714. [Abstract]
• Reali, F., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M. (2014). The Paradox of linguistic complexity and community size. In E.A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn & H. Cornish (Eds.) The Evolution of Language (pp. 270-277). Singapur: World Scientific. (ISBN 978-981-4603-62-1).[Abstract]
• Reali, F., Aponte, M., Caicedo, JC, & Martínez, J. (2013). Desarrollo linguístico y agresividad indirecta en patrones atributivos en ninos y jóvenes colombianos. Avances en Psicología Latinoamericana/Bogotá (Colombia)/Vol. 31(1)/pp. 257-270.[Abstract]
• Christiansen, M.H., Reali, F. & Chater, N. (2011). Biological adaptations for functional features of language in the face of cultural evolution. Human Biology, 83(2), 247-259.[Abstract]
• Griffiths, T.L. & Reali, F. (2011). Modeling minds as well as populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 23. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Griffiths, T. (2010) Language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277- 1680, 429-436.[Abstract]
• Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R. & Reali, F. (2010). Connectionist explorations of multiple-cue integration in syntax acquisition. In S.P. Johnson (Ed.), Neoconstructivism: The new science of cognitive development (pp. 87-108). New York: Oxford University Press. [Abstract]
• Chater, N., Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (4), 1015-1020. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Griffiths, T.L. (2009). The evolution of linguistic frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Cognition, 111(3), 317-328. [Abstract]
• Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N., & Reali, F. (2009). The biological and cultural foundations of language. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2 (3), 221-222. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M. H. (2009). Sequential learning and the interaction between biological and linguistic adaptation in language evolution. Interaction studies, 10:1, 5-30. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009) On the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to language universals. In C. Collins, M.H. Christiansen and S. Edelman (Eds.) Language Universals. (pp. 266- 277). New Cork: Oxford University Press. [Abstract]
• Levy, R., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T.L. (2009). Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. Adv. in Neural Information Processing Systems, 21, Vancouver, Canada, MIT Press.[Abstract]
• Reali, F (2008). El rol de las regularidades estadÌsticas en la adquisiciÛn del lenguaje. (Translation: The role of statistical regularities in language acquisition) In E. Kronm¸ller & C. Cornejo (Eds.) Ciencias de la Mente: Aproximaciones desde LatinoamÈrica (pp. 55-80). JCSaez: Santiago de Chile.[Abstract]
• Xu, J., Reali F., & Griffiths T.L. (2008). A formal analysis of cultural evolution by replacement. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1435-1440). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN: 978-0-9768318-4-6[Abstract]
• Reali F. & Griffiths T.L. (2008). The evolution of frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 229-234). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence. Journal of Memory and Language, 57 (1), 1-23. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Word-chunk frequencies affect the processing of pronominal object-relative clauses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60 (2), 161-170. [Abstract]
• Reali, F., Spivey, M., Tyler, M., & Terranova, J. (2006). Difficult conjunction search made easy by concurrent spoken delivery of target identity. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(6), 959-974. [Abstract]
• Christiansen, M., Reali, F., & Chater, N. (2006) The Baldwin effect works for functional but not arbitrary features of language (pp. 27-34). In A. Cangelosi, A.D.M. Smith and K. Smith (Eds.) The Evolution of Language. Toh Tuck Link Singapore: Word Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. [Abstract]
• Reali, F., Christiansen, M. H. (2005). Uncovering the richness of the stimulus: Structural dependence and indirect statistical evidence. Cognitive Science, 29 (6), 1007-1028. [Abstract]
• Valle-Lisboa, J.C, Reali, F., AnastasÌa, H., & Mizraji, E. (2005). Elman topology with sigma-pi units: an application to the modeling of verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia, Neural Networks, 18 (7), 863-877. [Abstract]
• Reali, F., Dale, R., & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Reassessing "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1821-1826). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004). Structure dependence in language acquisition: Uncovering the richness of the stimulus (David Marr Prize, Best Student Paper). In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1131-1136). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
• Reali, F., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2003). Phonological and distributional cues in syntax acquisition: Scaling up the connectionist approach to multiple-cue integration. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 970-975). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]