I am a cognitive scientist interested in the application of Bayesian modelling in the investigation of early language acquisition and its evolutionary roots. I am currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut de Rercerca Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona, Spain), were I use brain imaging (fNIRS), behavioural, and computational techniques to study how newborns, infants, and non-human animals perceive speech.
I particularly enjoy building code-based workflows, ensuring that my projects can be run by others and my future self, from data collection to visualisation and reporting. I mainly use Twitter (@gongcastro) for sharing research outputs, programming tips or data visualisations. You can also follow me on GitHub for some portfolio projects like:
- {bvq}: R package for downloading and processing vocabulary data from 10-40 month-old children living in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Spain) [website]
- {comidistar}: R package containing the scores given to products in the blind taste tests of El Comidista
- psicotuiterbot: A Twitter bot programmed in R using {rtweet} that automatically retweets mentions of the hasthtags #psicotuiter or #psicotwitter in Spanish