Alysia Martinez
- Project Coordinator
Contact Info
Biography —
Alysia Martinez is a project coordinator for the CARE and COPE lab, primarily managing the BEST-U study. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2025. Alysia intends to apply to Clinical Psychology Ph.D. programs in the future. In her free time, she enjoys learning foreign languages, watercolor painting, and going to concerts.
Education —
Research —
Alysia is interested in the intersections between language choice and linguistic relativity and disordered eating behaviors and recovery. Using these insights, she is interested in developing interventions that are emotionally informed and establishing a better understanding of the roles cognitive affect and language play in eating disorder recovery. She is also interested in psycholinguistic work pertaining to indigenous languages and language revitalization.
Selected Publications —
Martinez, A. E., & Vitevitch, M. S. (2024). A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–7. doi:10.1017/S1366728924000762
Vitevitch, M.S.; Martinez, A.E.; England, R. Defining Nodes and Edges in Other Languages in Cognitive Network Science—Moving beyond Single-Layer Networks. Information 2024, 15, 401. https://doi.org/10.3390/info15070401