Martina Riva is a PhD student in the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) doctoral program in Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience. She graduated in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological rehabilitation at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on language acquisition in both unimodal and bimodal bilingual children. She is spending a research scholar visiting period at SDSU, working on an ERP project on adult ASL signers.