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News section, which is updated regularly and shows relevant new events from the lab

Pint of Science: Entendiendo el cerebro en desarrollo

El próximo 22 de mayo a las 19.30 tendrá lugar en La Iguana (Carrer de Rosés, 46, Barcelona) la participación de Carles Escera y Lola Gómez Roig en el Festival Pint of Science (22-24 mayo), un evento de índole internacional que invita a los investigadores más punteros a compartir sus conocimientos con la sociedad en un […]

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Great success of the Brainlab at the International Multi-Brain Barcelona Congress

Congratulations to Brainlab members Natàlia Gorina-Careta, Siham Ijjou-Kadiri and Stefanie Sturm on their winning of several awards for their contributions to the congress. The International Multi-Brain Barcelona Congress – Healthy, Pathological and Artificial Brain, was a scientific international event organized by the María de Maeztu Excellence Unit Institute of Neuroscience of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) […]

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A new paper by Gorina-Careta and colleagues published in Seminar in Hearing

The paper entitled Neonatal frequency-following responses: A methodological framework for clinical applications, by, Gorina-Careta, Ribas-Prats, T., Arenillas-Alcón, S., Puertollano, M., Gómez-Roig, M.D., and Escera, has been published in the journal Seminars in Hearing. In this invited review we present a comprehensive review of the theoretical background, methodological aspects and clinical implications of the frequency-following response (FFR) […]

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Carles Escera gives a keynote lecture at the 9th Mismatch Negativity Conference (MMN2022)

The 9th Mismatch Negativity Conference was organized by Prof. Hirooki Yabe in Fukushima (Japan). The conference took place on September 21-23rd, 2022, and included 49 oral presentations arranged in 12 symposia, 42 poster presentations, and three keynote speeches. The keynote speakers were Prof. Patricia Michie (University of Newcastle, Australia), Prof. Claude Alain (University of Toronto, […]

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The IV FFR Workshop was a great successs

After a forced worldwide break for in-person conferences and workshops due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had the opportunity to hold the fourth edition of the Frequency-Following Response (FFR) Workshop on 8th-10th June at the University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). With the aim of bringing the FFR community together and discussing on different features […]

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A new paper by López-Mochales and colleagues published in Frontiers in Psychology

The paper entitled Experimental Enhancement of Feelings of Transcendence, Tenderness and Expressiveness by Music in Christian Liturgical Spaces, by López-Mochales, Jiménez-Pasalodos, Valenzuela, Gutiérrez-Cajaraville, Díaz-Andreu & Escera has just been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. This paper is another outcome of our collaboration with archaeologist Prof. Margarita Díaz-Andreu, ICREA Research Professor at our University […]

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Comienza un nuevo experimento

¿35€ y además ayudo a la ciencia? ¿En qué consistirá? Cuando llegues al laboratorio te pediremos que rellenes unos cuestionarios y luego te pondremos un casco de electroencefalograma (EEG – con esto mediremos tu actividad eléctrica del cerebro). También mediremos los movimientos musculares de tu brazo, tu nivel de sudoración y el tamaño de tu […]

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A new paper by Ribas-Prats and colleagues published in Developmental Science

The paper entitled Deficient neural encoding of speech sounds in term neonates born after fetal growth restriction, by Ribas-Prats, Arenillas-Alcón, Lip-Sosa, Costa-Faidella, Mazarico, Gómez-Roig, & Escera has just been published in the journal Developmental Science. This papers consolidates the collaboration between our Brainlab at the University of Barcelona and the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of […]

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