My name is Esteban Hernández-Rivera, and I am a second year PhD student in Experimental Psychology and Psycholinguistics, under the mentorship of Dr. Debra Titone at McGill University. I earned my BSc in Psychology at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico. Before coming to Montreal, my research focused on how individual and contextual variability in language use patterns, specifically language-switching modulated cognitive control demands for Spanish-English bilinguals living in Tijuana (MEX) - San Diego (USA).
My doctoral research sits at the intersection between psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and moral reasoning/decision-making. My research seeks to uncover how individual differences and contextual variability in the sociolinguistic environment influences the time-course of moral reasoning and decision-making among bilingual (and monolingual) populations. I approach these topics through Eye-tracking, EEG (ERPs), and Hierarchical Bayesian modelling techniques.
A second interest of mine, stemming from my background in psychometrics, psychophysics, and quantitative methods is to unearth how different non-linear quantitative methods can be used to characterize more accurately what is commonly termed as the "bilingual language experience continuum”. I'm currently focused on establishing how/which self-evaluative judgements of language experience can systematically affect the observed response patterns obtained from self-report measures (e.g., LHQ, LEAP-Q, etc.) across different contexts.