The Symposium of Psycholinguistics is an international conference on any topic related to human language processing, bringing together the different approaches of this interdisciplinary field. Previous editions of the Symposium of Psycholinguistics have taken place every two years since 1993 at different locations in Spain –including 2005 in Valencia (Spain) The 12th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics will be an open forum for exchange of ideas on theoretical and experimental issues related to how people process language, including, but not limited to topics as visual word recognition, language production, sentence and discourse processing, semantic representation, pragmatics, language pathology, language development, and bilingualism.