Dr Lidia Suarez ~ Head, Psychology & Education / Senior Lecturer Psychology

Lidia Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and registered research supervisor. She is currently serving as Head of Academic Group for Psychology and Education at James Cook University, Singapore. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and the effects of music training on working memory. She has also validated measures in Singapore such as the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF), the interpersonal needs questionnaire (INQ), and others. Lidia holds a PhD and MSSc from the National University of Singapore, an MBA from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and a BPsych from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.  She has published her work in journals such as Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Memory & Cognition, Quality of Life Research, and PLOS ONE. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Clinical Psychology.

Research Disciplines

• Cognitive Sciences (1702)
• Psychology (1701)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Health and Support Services (9202)

Awards

• 2013 - Best Research Paper award for the paper "Visuo-spatial memory advantage of biscriptal bilinguals" at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology Conference (CBP, 2013).

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Suárez L, Tay B and Abdullah F (2018) Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment in Singapore. Quality of Life Research, 27 (11). pp. 2945-2952
• Teo D, Suarez L and Oei T (in press) Psychometric properties of the problem solving inventory in a Singapore young male adult sample. Current Psychology,
• Teo D, Suarez L and Oei T (2018) Validation of the interpersonal needs questionnaire of young male adults in Singapore. PLoS One, 13 (6).
• Toh W and Suárez L (2017) Above, on, or shang (上)? Language and spatial representations among English–Mandarin bilinguals. Perception & Psychophysics, 79 (8). pp. 2235-245
• Hartanto A and Suárez L (2016) Conceptual representation changes in Indonesian-English bilinguals. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45 (5). pp. 1201-1217
• Suárez L, Elangovan S and Au A (2016) Cross-sectional study on the relationship between music training and working memory in adults. Australian Journal of Psychology, 68 (1). pp. 38-46
• Suárez L and Goh W (2013) Recognition memory for foreign language lexical stress. Memory and Cognition, 41 (6). pp. 872-885
• Singh S, Mak W, Ko C, Choo S and Suárez L (2012) The role of morality in driving our social support decisions. International Proceedings of Economics Development and Research, 53. pp. 59-63

Book Chapters

• Goh W, Suárez L and Yeo K (2014) Uncovering bilingual memory representations. In: South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 305-314

Conference Papers

• Lim J, Suárez L, Sim L, Broekman B, Yap S, Kwek K, Gluckman P, Saw S, Meaney M and Rifkin-Graboi A (2015) Cultural differences in mirror self-recognition in 18 month-old Singaporean toddlers. Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology. In: CBP 2015: 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, 9-10 Singapore 2015, Singapore
• Suárez L and Sathiasilan S (2014) Visuo-spatial memory and language acquisition skills of bilinguals with different writing systems. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology. In: CBP 2014: 3rd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, 24-25 February 2014, Singapore
• Suárez L, Beevi I, Soh J, Lim R and Teo S (2013) Visuo-spatial memory advantage of biscriptal bilinguals. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Phsychology. In: 2nd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Phsychology, 25-26 February 2013, Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 32+ research outputs authored by Dr Lidia Suarez from 2005 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Cross-Validation of Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) and Developmental Milestones (PEDS:DM) for Early Detection of Developmental Delay in Children in India" (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Academic expectation and suicide behaviour among Singaporean and Malaysian youths (PhD , Secondary Advisor)