Last Friday December 2nd, 2016, at 12:00 at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, Lenka Selinger defended her thesis entitled The modulation of auditory function by genetic and emotional factors. The thesis was together co-supervised by Dr. Imma Clemente-Lapena and Dr. Carles Escera, head of Brainlab. The thesis was carried out under the […]
Carles Escera, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and head of the Brainlab, has received the ICREA Acadèmia Distinguished Professorship awarded by the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), in its 2015 edition. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday March 15, at the Palau Reial de Pedralbes. The ICREA Academia programme was launched in […]
Last Friday December 18th, 2015, at 12 o’clock at the Faculty of Medicine, Miriam Cornella defended her thesis entitled Auditory regularity encoding in the human brain: cortical and subcortical mechanisms. The thesis was supervised by Dr. Carles Escera, and the panel was chaired by Dr. David Pérez-González, from the University of Salamanca (Spain), and included […]
The paper entitled Functional dissociation between regularity encoding and deviance detection along the auditory hierarchy, by Maryam Aghamolaei, Katarzyna Zarnowiec, Sabine Grimm, & Carles Escera, has been accepted for publication in European Journal of Neuroscience. Maryam Aghamolaei, Phd student from Tehran University (Iran), had a six-month visit in our lab, during which she managed to complet an […]
Carles Escera, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and head of Brainlab, has been appointed member of the Academia Europeae in its session held September 6th, 2015. Election of members of the Academia follows a competitive selection process upon nomination by an Academia member. Carles Escera joins the other four Spanish (Miquel Siguan, Mara Dierssen and Núria […]
After a long period of three years working in the Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Laboratory (CNNL) of the Nathan S. Kline Institute (NKI), Orangeburgh, New York (USA), Dr. Jordi Costa-Faidella is back to Brainlab. Jordi moved to New York after finishing his PhD with us in 2011, thanks to a Fundación Ramón Areces fellowship. After one year […]
We are very happy to welcome Vittoria Spinosa to the Brainlab, where she is going to carry out her PhD studies under the supervision of Dr. Iria SanMiguel. Vittoria graduated in Psychology in Unversity of Bari (Italy) in 2009 and got also a Violin Diploma in the Music Conservatory “N. Piccinni” of Bari, in 2011. […]
We are very happy to welcome Iria SanMiguel back to Brainlab. After obtaining her PhD with us in 2008 with the thesis “Working memory influences on auditory novelty processing in the human brain”, Iria held a post-doctoral position at the University of Leipzig (Germany) to work in the Reinhart-Koselleck project “Predictive Modelling in Audition”. During the five […]
Two of our lab members, Lenka Selinger and Raffaele Cacciaglia participate in a new outreach experience that combines neuroscience and music in l’Auditori: “L’experiència de la butaca. Convidats d’excepció” (The seat experience. Excepctional guests). On January 31st and on Febraury 14th, they will be interviewed to discuss about the experience of listening to a symphony […]
Abnormal numerical processing in math-anxious individuals: Evidence from event-related brain potentials, this is the title of the PhD thesis leading to the International PhD Diploma by the University of Barcelona that Macarena Suárez-Pellicioni will be defending next Thursday December 4th, 2014, at 12:00am. The defense will take place at Sala de Graus, Faculty of Psychology, […]
