Laís Muntini, M.Sc.
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
| Phone | +49 (0)631 / 205 2796 |
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| muntini(at)rptu.de | |
| building | 57, Room 521 |
Education
| From 2022 | PhD Canditate, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau & Faculty of Language and Education, Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain (double-degree programme leading to the degrees Dr. rer. nat. and D.Phil.) Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lachmann & Prof. Dr Jon Andoni Duñabeitia |
2018 – 2021 | Master of Science, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Thesis: Foreign Language Effect: Can voluntary language switch be used as a strategy to perform on a picture naming task? |
2013 – 2018 | Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Universidade Regional Integrada do Auto Uruguai e das Missões, Erechim, Brazil Thesis: Executive Functions in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Literature Following PRISMA- P Protocol |
Publications
Khalil, H., Jubran, O. F., Muntini, L., Wagner, A., & Lachmann, T. (2025). Comparing AR interaction techniques and user interfaces for worker guidance systems for industrial applications. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE ’25) (46, pp.1–4). Association for Computing Machinery. Download here
Rocabado, F.*, Muntini, L.*, Jubran, O. F., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Lachmann, T. (2025). Transforming language research from classic desktops to virtual environments. Scientific Reports, 15, 23118. Download here
Rocabado, F.*, Muntini, L.*, Alonso, J. G., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2024). Weathering words: A virtual reality study of environmental influence on reading dynamics. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. Download here
Jubran, O. F., Monaco, E., Muntini, L., & Lachmann, T. (2024, October). The “bizarre” object effect in virtual reality: A comparative serial recall study. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE ’24) (7, pp. 1–7). Association for Computing Machinery. Download here
Jubran, O. F., Rocabado, F., Muntini, L., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Lachmann, T. (2022, October). Reproducing classical priming, flanker, and lexical decision tasks in VR: Between ecological validity and experimental control. In Proceedings of the 33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE ’22) (25, pp. 1–5). Association for Computing Machinery. Download here
Talks and Posters
Muntini, L., Jubran, O. F., van Leeuwen, C. & Lachmann, T. (2026, March). Letters in context: Investigating the Negative Congruence Effect of Letter Recognition. TEAP Conference 2026, Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen. Tübingen, Germany.
Muntini, L., Monaco, E., Jubran, O. F. & Lachmann, T. (2025, October). The Berlin rule of memory: investigating the bizarre object effect in a serial recall. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Recife, Brazil.
Muntini, L., Jubran, O. F., Rocabado, F., Lachmann, T. & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2024, October). The environment as a factor: investigating the impact of the environment on cognition with VR. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Kanpur, India.
Muntini, L., Rocabado, F., Alonso, J. G., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2024, March). Weathering word recognition: Investigating the impact of sunny and rainy virtual environments on lexical processing. TEAP Conference 2024, Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen. Regensburg, Germany.
Muntini, L., Lachmann, T., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2024, August). Does word valence influence language choice? Investigating the Foreign Language Effect in a Valenced Voluntary Language Switching Task. Summer School of Linguistics. Budweis, Czech Republic.
Muntini, L., Rocabado, F., Alonso, J. G., & Duñabeitia, J. A. (2024, April). Descriptive event history analysis of the impact of sunny and rainy virtual environments on lexical processing. SCSC 2024 conference, The 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture. Valencia, Spain.
Muntini, L., Jubran, O. F., Rocabado, F., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Lachmann, T. (2023, May). Bridging the gap between 2D and 3D in single word recognition. XVI International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Muntini, L., Rocabado, F. & Duñabeitia, J.A. (2023, March). Reading in the Rain: An Investigation of Lexical and Affective Processing in Virtual Reality. ICPS 2023, International Convention of Psychological Science of the Association for Psychological Sciences. Brussels, Belgium.