This is the little corner where I share thoughts
on linguistics and speech and language therapy.
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Cycle of conferences for CosmoCaixa
Following the Talking Brains exhibition, we coordinated a series of lectures featuring diverse professionals who discussed topics such as the relationship between dementia and language, the genetics of language, linguistic and cognitive diversity among humans, and the characterization of language in the brain. The participants were: Wolfram Hinzen (ICREA-UPF researcher), Jaume Bertranpetit (ICREA-UPF researcher), Peter…
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Nosotros, robots
In 2018, I wrote the script and documentation for the temporary exhibition “Us, Robots,” which opened in October in Madrid, for the Telefónica Foundation. My responsibility was to shape the entire historical and cultural journey of robots: from the automata of Ancient Greece to the first time someone used the word “robot,” including their most…
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A short documentary on nonverbal autism
While we were creating the Talking Brains exhibition, we did a documentary about a child with nonverbal autism, Dídac. We went to his home and shot some scenes with him and his mother, Verónica. We wanted to raise the question of what happens when one does not have language. Imagining a nonverbal world is something…
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My stand-up show at a Pint of Science
If you do not know Pint of Science, you should immediately go and attend one of their events. They organize a festival of talks on science popularization across many European countries. The talks are informal monologues delivered by the researchers themselves, in order to bring science to a wide audience in bars, pubs and other…
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Talking Brains
Temporary exhibition at the science museum of Barcelona (Cosmocaixa) on the human faculty of language from the point of view of the brain. I am a co-author and content manager of the exhibition. This means that, together with three other people, I thought of it and developed it from scratch. Together, we shaped it and…
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Interview at Mossega la Poma
We have been invited to Mossega la poma (Bite the apple), a space about technology with a long trajectory that started when, years ago, its director Tomàs Manzanares discovered the first Macs. His blog and his program have grown up to have guests like Els amics de les arts, Antoni Bassas or Xavier Tries. It…
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Interview at Zetatesters
Nothing like ending April visiting our friends at Zetatesters. We laughed a lot and they gave us chocolate and tons of love. Thanks a lot, pals! You can listen to the full podcast here. [Audio in Spanish]
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Talking Brains: the dream that woke
Everything has a life, even dreams. They are born, naively, and they start to grow up, to get fatter and taller, so very tall, until they lose their innocence and they wake up. On that day they leave the could behind and become. Let’s not be too naive ourselves. When there’s a will, there isn’t…