Dr. Gloria Nélida Avecilla-Ramírez is a professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education at the UAQ. She completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at UNAM. She recently led the project: 'Initial Literacy and its Effects on Visual Processing'. She has published 30 papers in various journals and is Head of the Neuropsychology Laboratory at her faculty. She teaches Research Methods and Neuropsychology, and her research interests include language development and literacy induced brain reorganization.