Paper: Functional neural dynamics underlying auditory event-related N1 and N1 suppression response

Grau C, Fuentemilla Ll, Marco-Pallarés J. Functional neural dynamics underlying auditory event-related N1 and N1 suppression response. Neuroimage. in press

New paper: Recognition of morphologically complex words in Finnish: Evidence from event-related potentials

Lehtonen M, Cunillera T, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Hulten A, Tuomainen J, Laine M. Recognition of morphologically complex words in Finnish: Evidence from event-related potentials. Brain Res. in press.

Paper: Mismatch negativity impairment associated with alcohol consumption in chronic alcoholics: A scalp current density study

Marco-Pallarés J, Ruffini G, Polo MD, Gual A, Escera C, Grau C.Mismatch negativity impairment associated with alcohol consumption in chronic alcoholics: A scalp current density study. International Journal of Psychophysiology. in press

New: Brain activity provides novel biometric key

The NewScientist Webpage has reported the novel biometric system developed by Starlab and Forenap using EEG. For more info click here.

Paper: Using musical instruments to improve motor skill recovery following a stroke

Schneider S, Schonle PW, Altenmuller E, Munte TF. Using musical instruments to improve motor skill recovery following a stroke.J Neurol. 2007, in press

Paper: Age-related water diffusion changes in human brain: A voxel-based approach.

Camara E, Bodammer N, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Tempelmann C. Age-related water diffusion changes in human brain: A voxel-based approach.Neuroimage. in press.

PhD grant

PhD Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science (FPI Grant)
Principal Investigator: Carles Grau Fonollosa. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psicobiology, University of Barcelona.
Title: Cerebral oscillatory mechanism in the Auditory Sensorial Memory. Study with Evoked Potentials
Project Reference: SEJ2006-13998

The FPI grants (FPI) are supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) to help the scientific training of university graduates that wanted to perform a PhD thesis in all the areas of knowledge.
The applicant has to be very motivated to begin a researcher career in Cognitive Neuroscience, that is, in the representation, study and visualization of the cognitive processes in the human brain, and specially their application in the processes implied in language acquisition. The applicant will get basic training in functional neuroimaging techniques (Event-related brain potentials, ERPs and fMRI-event-related Magnetic Resonance Imaging). They are requested programming skills or predisposition to adquire them and statistic/experimental designs and system nervous functioning knowledges.
Applicants can have, given the interdisciplinary nature of the field of knowledge, studies on Psychology, Physics, Medicine (Neurology), Biology and Mathematics. It is requested availability to perform short stays in foreign countries (Europe) of at least two months each year. It is also needed a good English knowledge, language in which the project and the thesis will be performed. Applicants must have the degree obtained after 1st January 2003 (see the call for exceptions).
Applicants will be integrated in the consolidated group of the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) “Cognitive Neurodynamis and of the Mental Disorders (Neurodinámica Cognitiva y de los Transtornos Mentales, NECOM), that studies cognitive functions in healthy subjects and with psychiatric and neurological diseases.

More information: carlesgrau@ub.edu
Duration of the grant: 4 years Salary: 1100 €.
Concrete information: http://www.mec.es/ciencia/becas/

Project La Marató 2005: "Plasticitat en el còrtex sensoriomotor induïda per teràpia musical en pacients amb accident cerebrovascular"

Dr. Antoni Rodríguez Fornells from Psycology Faculty of the UB, Dr. Thomas Münte from Ableitung für Neuropsychology of the University Otto von Guericke of Magdeburg and Dr. Carles Grau Fonollosa from Medicine Faculty of the UB from the NECOM group have obtained a grant of 360.182 € from the Fundació la Marató with the project “Plasticitat en el còrtex sensoriomotor induïda per teràpia musical en pacients amb accident cerebrovascular” (Plasticity of the sensorimotor cortex induced by musical therapy in patients suffering from stroke).

Paper: The effects of stress and statistical cues on continuous speech segmentation: An event-related brain potential study

Cunillera T, Toro JM, Sebastian-Galles N, Rodriguez-Fornells A. The effects of stress and statistical cues on continuous speech segmentation: An event-related brain potential study. Brain Res. 2006 Oct 23;

Paper: Watching the Brain during Meaning Acquisition

Mestres-Misse A, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Munte TF. Watching the Brain during Meaning Acquisition.Cereb Cortex. in press

Papers

NECOM collaboration related papers.

- Complex networks in brain electrical activity, G. Ruffini, C. Ray, J. Marco, L. Fuentemilla, C. Grau http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0511137

- A dry electrophysiology electrode using CNT arrays, Giulio Ruffini, Stephen Dunne, Esteve Farres, Josep Marco-Pallares, Chris Ray, Ernest Mendoza, Ravi Silva, Carles Grau, http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510145 , Sensors and Actuators A132(2006)34–41

Location of brain rhythms and their modulation by preparatory attention estimated by current density

Gomez CM, Marco-Pallares J, Grau C. Location of brain rhythms and their modulation by preparatory attention estimated by current density.Brain Res. 2006 Aug 30;1107(1):151-60.

Paper: First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon

Sebastian-Galles N, Rodriguez-Fornells A, de Diego-Balaguer R, Diaz B. First- and second-language phonological representations in the mental lexicon.
J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Aug;18(8):1277-91.

Poster presentation at Zurich by the Institut fuer Psychologie II

Sandra Müller, Klaue U, Specht A, Schulz P. Vocational Neuropsychology: a new field of Intervention?.

Rüsseler, J, Scholz, J, Jordan, K, Quaiser-Pohl, C: Mental rotation is deficient in dyslexic children: evidence from non-speeded tests.

New Project: Mecanismos Oscilatorios Cerebrales en la Memoria Sensorial Auditiva: Estudio con Potenciales Evocados

The Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología has approved the project Mecanismos Oscilatorios Cerebrales en la Memoria Sensorial Auditiva: Estudio con Potenciales Evocados, with IP Dr Carles Grau Fonollosa. NECOM groups Laboratori de Neurodinámica, Institut fuer Psychologie II, Unitat d'Esquizofrènia and Brain Imaging Group participate in this project

New position in NECOM

Toni Cunillera is selected as assistant professor in the Basic Psychology Department of the University of Barcelona.

Workshop "Herramientas de análisis bajo el entorno Matlab"

by Josep Marco-Pallarés in the 1st Workshop sobre el Tratamiento de las Señales Multicanal de la Red Temática de Neurociencia Cognitiva en Madrid

Material of the course

Paper: What the Brain Does before the Tongue Slips

Moller J, Jansma BM, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Munte TF. What the Brain Does before the Tongue Slips.Cereb Cortex. 2006 Jul 10

Poster presentation at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Florence (Italy)

Age-related water diffusivity changes: A voxel-based approach. Estela Càmara, Nils Bodammer, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, Claus Tempelmann

The price of failing: Differences in correct responses as a consequence of a previous error. Josep Marco-Pallarés, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, Thomas F. Münte

Independent component analysis tomography of the N1 auditory ERP. Josep Marco-Pallarés, Lluís Fuentemilla, Carles Grau

The effect of stress in continuous speech segmentation: an event-related brain potentials study. Toni Cunillera, Estela Cámara, David Cucurell, Antoni Gomila, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells

Extracting words and rules in speech streams: an ERP study. Ruth de Diego Balaguer, Juan M. Toro, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, Anne-Catherine Bachoud-Lévi,

NECOM meeting : "Non-linear Modeling: A new time series Analysis Perspective"

by Xavi Rifà