Veronica Mendoza
Veronica holds an MA in Linguistics Applied to the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. She previously worked as a research assistant at LASLAB. She currently works as a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and the School of Engineering at the University of the Basque Country.
Research Interests
Cognition (sensation, attention, perception, memory and language/speech), reward; chunks, brain efficiency, automaticity (automatic speech); neuroscience, psychology, biolinguistics, linguistics; teaching materials
Journal Papers
- Sebastian Rojas Ordoñez, Mikel Segura, Irune Yarza, Veronica Mendoza, Ekaitz Zulueta. (2026) Plug-and-Play LLM Knowledge Extraction for Robot Navigation: A Fine-Tuning-Free Edge Framework. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. :-. Abstract || PDF
- Veronica Mendoza, Ekaitz Zulueta, Xabier Basogain, Javier Peña Ceballos, Julen Carasa Castaño. (2026) Cross-Domain Input, Mutual Exclusivity, and Inferential Reasoning: When LLMs Learn Words Like Humans. Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. :-. Abstract || PDF
- Veronica Mendoza. (2026) Fictitious Animals and Pseudowords for Artificial Intelligence and Human Training. . :-. Abstract
- Veronica Mendoza, Ekaitz Zulueta. (2025) Teaching English with Oral Chunk-Based Training. Education Sciences. :-. Abstract || PDF
- Sebastian Rojas Ordoñez, Mikel Segura, Veronica Mendoza, Unai Fernandez, Ekaitz Zulueta. (2025) Natural-Language Relay Control for a SISO Thermal Plant: A Proof-of-Concept with Validation Against a Conventional Hysteresis Controller. Applied Sciences. :-. Abstract || PDF
Book Chapters
- Veronica Mendoza. (2026) Meaningful chunks, conditional rules, and hierarchical syntax. International Handbook of Innovation and Assessment of the Quality of Higher Education and Research (Vol. 4). Ed.: . Pub.: Thomson Reuters.. Pags: -. Abstract
- Veronica Mendoza. (2025) Acquired and inborn clusters: Brain efficiency and automaticity. International Handbook of Innovation and Assessment of the Quality of Higher Education and Research (Vol. 3) Ed.: . Pub.: Thomson Reuters. Pags: -. Abstract
- Veronica Mendoza. (2025) Chunk and morpheme acquisition. International Handbook of Innovation and Assessment of the Quality of Higher Education and Research (Vol. 3). Ed.: . Pub.: Thomson Reuters.. Pags: -. Abstract
- Veronica Mendoza. (2024) Testing sensory chunks – A new pedagogy seeking effective language teaching and automatisation. International Handbook of Innovation and Assessment of the Quality of Higher Education and Research (Vol. 2) Ed.: . Pub.: Thomson Reuters. Pags: -. Abstract


