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Across three linked research lines, my work investigates (1) audiovisual speech processing in infancy, (2) early neural and behavioural markers of word learning in toddlerhood, and (3) early behavioral markers that may act as sex-specific protective and risk factors for language development in infants at elevated likelihood for autism. Within the latter, I currently lead the Sonatina project ‘Early sex differences in attention to the articulating mouth as a female protective candidate mechanism in Autism Spectrum Disorder’, hosted by the Neurocognitive Development Lab at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and funded by the Polish National Centre of Science (2023/48/C/HS6/00264).
My research is possible thanks to international collaborations with colleagues at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck-University of London (UK), the DiVE Lab at Uppsala University (Sweden), the Medea Autism BabyLab at the E. MEDEA Hospital/Research Center (Italy), the MultiLADA Lab at the University of Warsaw (Poland), and the Multiling Lab at the University of Oslo (UiO) and OsloMet (Norway). For more details, see my research network.
Audiovisual speech processing in infancy
How do infants learn to integrate the articulating mouth movements of human faces with the sounds of speech in the first year of life?
Do infants with an elevated likelihood for autism follow a different pathway in this fundamental skill?
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Publications
Lozano et al. (2025). Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.102026
Lozano et al. (2024). Infant Behavior and Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101973
Lozano et al. (2024). Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101453
Lozano et al. (2018). Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications. https://doi.org/10.1145/3204493.3207423
Lozano et al. (2015). European Symposium on Multimodal Communication (Proceedings). https://ep.liu.se/ecp/105/008/ecp16105008.pdf
My PhD dissertation [PDF]
This research was conducted in collaboration with TRABERITEA.
Early neural and behavioural markers of vocabulary acquisition in toddlerhood
How do brain maturation and early language experience shape the emergence of early brain markers of word learning in toddlerhood (the N400 ERP)?
Do toddlers attend to the mouth movements of talking faces to support learning vocabulary?
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Publications
Lozano et al. (in press). Child Development. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag010
Lozano et al. (2025). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101599
This research was conducted within the PolkaNorski project (WP2).
Mouth-looking as a potential female-specific marker of better language in autism
Do female infants at typical and elevated likelihood for autism look at the mouth of talking faces more than male infants do?
Does mouth-looking predict better language and social communication in the females only?
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Publications
Lozano et al. (2022). Infancy. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12496
Lozano et al. (2025). Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1501688
This research is being conducted in collaboration with CBCD, MEDEA Babylab and DiVE Lab. For more, see the "See Me Talk" project here.
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