Núria Sebastián Gallés
Cognitive psychologist and researcher at Pompeu Fabra University focused on infant language acquisition and bilingual development, studying how babies distinguish and learn multiple languages.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 26min
How mother tongue moulds us
Núria Sebastián Gallés, cognitive psychologist who studies how babies learn multiple languages, and Aneta Pavlenko, linguist focused on bilingualism and language and emotion, discuss how early exposure shapes perception. They talk about infant language discrimination, emotional effects of switching tongues, live social learning, shifting identities, and how trauma, therapy and migration influence which language feels ‘home’.
