Dr. Marc Guasch | Team | Grup de recerca GIP

My research interests focus on the study of the human faculty of language within the framework of cognitive science. To date, my work has addressed various aspects, such as the analysis of the variables underlying the organization of words in memory, or the representation of semantic information in the memory of bilingual individuals. In parallel, I have contributed to the development of numerous databases that provide normative data related to variables that influence lexical processing. I have also participated in large-scale studies analyzing the frequency of Catalan words and their level of familiarity in the population. My research interests extend to the study of the process of acquisition of new concepts and the exploration of distributional models of language. In my research, I employ a variety of experimental techniques, such as behavioural measures of reaction times and physiological measures, including pupillary diameter monitoring through eye-tracking technology.

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PUBLICATIONS 2025:

Ferré, P., Guasch, M. & Herbert, C. (2025). Does self-reference modulate the processing of all emotional words? The distinction between emotion-label and emotion-laden words. Acta Psychologica, 260, 105689. 10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105689

PUBLICATIONS 2024:

Betancourt, A. A., Guasch, M., & Ferré, P. (2024). What distinguishes emotion-label words from emotion-laden words? The characterization of affective meaning from a multicomponential conception of emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 15:1308421. 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1308421
Bogunovic, I., Coso, B., Guasch, M., Pavlinusic, E., Ferré, P., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2024). How do we feel about borrowed words? Affective and lexico-semantic norms for most frequent unadapted English loanwords in Croatian (ENGRI CROWD). International Journal of Bilingualism. Advanced online publication. 10.1177/13670069241280355
Ferré, P., Guasch, M., Stadthagen-González, H., Hinojosa, J. A., Fraga, I., Marín, J., & Pérez-Sánchez, M. Á. (2024). What makes a word a good representative of the category of "emotion"? The role of feelings and interoception. Emotion, 24(3), 745-758. 10.1037/emo0001300
Hinojosa, J. A., Guasch, M., Montoro, P. R., Albert, J., Fraga, I., & Ferré, P. (2024). The bright side of words: Norms for 9000 Spanish words in seven discrete positive emotions. Behavior Research Methods, 56, 4909-4929. 10.3758/s13428-023-02229-8
Zheng, R., Zhang, M., Guasch, M., & Ferré, P. (2024). Exploring the differences in processing between Chinese emotion and emotion-laden words: A cross-task comparison study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(7), 1426-1437. 10.1177/17470218241296695

PUBLICATIONS 2023:

Betancourt, A. A., Guasch, M., & Ferré, P. (2023). The contribution of affective content to cue-response correspondence in a word association task: Focus on emotion words and emotion-laden words. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(6), 991-1011. 10.1017/S0142716423000395
Coso, B., Guasch, M., Bogunovic, I, Ferré, P., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2023). CROWD-5e: A Croatian psycholinguistic database of affective norms for five discrete emotions. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 4018-4034. 10.3758/s13428-022-02003-2
Guasch, M., Boada, R., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Ferré, P. (2023). Prevalence norms for 40,777 Catalan words: An online megastudy of vocabulary size. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 3198-3217. 10.3758/s13428-022-01959-5
Lobina, D. J., Demestre, J., García-Albea, J. E., & Guasch, M. (2023). Default meanings: language's logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning. Linguistics and Philosophy, 46, 135-168. 10.1007/s10988-022-09359-w
Rodriguez-Cuadrado, S., Hinojosa, J. A., Guasch, M., Romero-Rivas, C., Sabater, L., Suárez-Coalla, P., & Ferré, P. (2023). Subjective age of acquisition norms for 1604 English words by Spanish L2 speakers of English and their relationship with lexico-semantic, affective, sociolinguistic and proficiency variables. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 4437-4454. 10.3758/s13428-022-02026-9
Zheng, R., Zhang, M., Guo, T., Guasch, M., & Ferré, P. (2023). Emotional Prototypicality Ratings for 636 Chinese Words: A Database of Chinese Words with Affective Information. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52, 2775-2792. 10.1007/s10936-023-10018-9

PUBLICATIONS 2022:

Buades-Sitjar, F., Boada, R., Guasch, M., Ferré, P., Hinojosa, J. A., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2022). The predictors of general knowledge: Data from a Spanish megastudy. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 898-909. 10.3758/s13428-021-01669-4
Ferré, P., Guasch, M., Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., & Comesaña, M. (2022). Love me in L1, but hate me in L2: How native speakers and bilinguals rate the affectivity of words when feeling or thinking about them. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25(5), 786-800. 10.1017/S1366728922000189
Lobina, D. J., Demestre, J., García-Albea, J. E., & Guasch, M. (2022). Unsaid thoughts: Thinking in the absence of verbal logical connectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:962099. 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.962099

PUBLICATIONS 2021:

Buades-Sitjar, F., Boada, R., Guasch, M., Ferré, P., Hinojosa, J. A., Brysbaert, M., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2021). The thousand-question Spanish general knowledge database. Psicológica, 42, 109-119. 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0006
Guasch, M., & Ferré, P. (2021). Emotion and concreteness effects when learning novel concepts in the native language. Psicológica, 42, 177-191. 10.2478/psicolj-2021-0009
Haro, J., Guasch, M., & Ferré, P. (2021). Pupilas dilatadas, mente atareada: la dilatación pupilar y su aplicación al estudio del lenguaje. Ciencia Cognitiva, 15:2, 35-37. http://www.cienciacognitiva.org/?p=2115
Pérez-Sánchez, M. Á., Stadthagen-Gonzalez, H., Guasch, M., Hinojosa, J. A., Fraga, I., Marín, J., & Ferré, P. (2021). EmoPro - Emotional prototypicality for 1286 Spanish words: Relationships with affective and psycholinguistic variables. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 1857-1875. 10.3758/s13428-020-01519-9

PUBLICATIONS 2020:

Boada, R., Guasch, M., Haro, J., Demestre, J., & Ferré, P. (2020). SUBTLEX-CAT: Subtitle word frequencies and contextual diversity for Catalan. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 360-375. 10.3758/s13428-019-01233-1
Paolieri, D., Demestre, J., Guasch, M., Bajo, T., & Ferré, P. (2020). The gender congruency effect in Catalan-Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23, 1045-1055. 10.1017/S1366728920000073
Sabater, L., Guasch, M., Ferré, P., Fraga, I., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2020). Spanish affective normative data for 1,406 words rated by children and adolescents (SANDchild). Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1939-1950. 10.3758/s13428-020-01377-5

PUBLICATIONS 2019:

Coso, B., Guasch, M., Ferré, P., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2019). Affective and concreteness norms for 3,022 Croatian words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2302-2312. 10.1177/1747021819834226
Ferré, P., Comesaña, M., & Guasch, M. (2019). Emotional content and source memory for language: Impairment in an incidental encoding task. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:65. 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00065

PUBLICATIONS 2018:

Ferré, P., Anglada-Tort, M., & Guasch, M. (2018). Processing of emotional words in bilinguals: Testing the effects of word concreteness, task type and language status. Second Language Research, 34, 371-394. 10.1177/0267658317744008
Fraga, I., Guasch, M., Haro, J., Padrón, I., & Ferré, P. (2018). EmoFinder: The meeting point for Spanish emotional words. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 84-93. 10.3758/s13428-017-1006-3

PUBLICATIONS 2017:

Ferré, P., Guasch, M., Martínez-García, N., Fraga, I., & Hinojosa, J. A. (2017). Moved by words: affective ratings for a set of 2,266 Spanish words in five discrete emotion categories. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1082-1094. 10.3758/s13428-016-0768-3
Gavilán, J. M., Rivera, D., Guasch, M., Demestre, J., & García-Albea, J. E. (2017). Exploring the Effects of Visual Frame and Matching Direction on the Vertical-Horizontal Illusion. Perception, 46, 1339-1355. 10.1177/0301006617724979
Guasch, M., Ferré, P., & Haro, J. (2017). Pupil dilation is sensitive to the cognate status of words: further evidence for non-selectivity in bilingual lexical access. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20, 49-54. 10.1017/S1366728916000651
Guasch, M., Haro, J., & Boada, R. (2017). Clustering words to match conditions: an algorithm for stimuli selection in factorial designs. Psicológica, 38, 111-131.
Haro, J., Guasch, M., Vallès, B., & Ferré, P. (2017). Is pupillary response a reliable index of word recognition? Evidence from a delayed lexical decision task. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1930-1938. 10.3758/s13428-016-0835-9

PUBLICATIONS 2016:

Guasch, M., Ferré, P., & Fraga, I. (2016). Spanish norms for Affective and Lexico-Semantic variables for 1,400 words. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1358-1369. 10.3758/s13428-015-0684-y

PUBLICATIONS 2015:

Comesaña, M., Ferré, P., Romero, J., Guasch, M., Soares, A. P., & García-Chico, T. (2015). Facilitative effect of cognate words vanishes when reducing the orthographic overlap: The effect of stimuli list composition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 614-635. 10.1037/xlm0000065
Ferré, P., Guasch, M., García-Chico, T., & Sánchez-Casas, R. (2015). Are there qualitative differences in the representation of abstract and concrete words? Within-language and cross-language evidences from the semantic priming paradigm. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 2402-2418. 10.1080/17470218.2015.1016980

PUBLICATIONS 2013:

Guasch, M., Boada, R., Ferré, P., & Sánchez-Casas, R. (2013). NIM: A Web-based Swiss Army knife to select stimuli for psycholinguistic studies. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 765-771. 10.3758/s13428-012-0296-8

PUBLICATIONS 2012:

Ferré, P., Guasch, M., Moldovan, C. D., & Sánchez-Casas, R. (2012). Affective norms for 380 Spanish words belonging to three different semantic categories. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 395-403. 10.3758/s13428-011-0165-x

PUBLICATIONS 2011:

Guasch, M.; Sánchez-Casas, R.; Ferré, P.; García-Albea, J. E. (2011). Effects of the degree of meaning similarity on crosslanguage semantic priming in highly proficient bilinguals. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 942-961. 10.1080/20445911.2011.589382

PUBLICATIONS 2010:

Davis, C.; Sánchez-Casas, R.; García-Albea, J. E.; Guasch, M.; Molero, M.; Ferré, P. (2010). Masked translation priming: Varying language experience and word type with Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13, 137-155. 10.1017/S1366728909990393

PUBLICATIONS 2008:

Guasch, M.; Sánchez-Casas, R.; Ferré, P.; García-Albea, J. E. (2008). Translation performance of Beginning, Intermediate and Proficient Spanish-Catalan Bilinguals: Effects of Form and Semantic Relations. The Mental Lexicon, 3, 289-308. 10.1075/ml.3.3.03gua

PUBLICATIONS 2007:

Sánchez-Casas, R.; Guasch, M.; Ferré, P.; Esteban, S. (2007). El papel de la forma en los efectos de priming enmascarado en las palabras cognaticias. Anuario de Psicología, 38, 25-44.

PUBLICATIONS 2006:

Ferré, P.; Sánchez-Casas, R.; Guasch, M. (2006). Can a horse be a donkey? Semantic and form interference effects in translation recognition in early and late proficient and non-proficient Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. Language Learning, 56, 571-608. 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2006.00389.x
Sánchez-Casas, R.; Ferré, P.; García-Albea, J. E.; Guasch, M. (2006). The nature of semantic priming: Effects of the degree of semantic similarity between primes and targets in Spanish. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18 (2), 161-184. 10.1080/09541440500183830