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 SEMINARS 2011
Date

Day

Time

Topic

Speaker

16th December 2011

Friday

16:00

"Affectiva's new tool to measure long-term real-world data"

Javiera Oyarzún

2nd December 2011

Friday

14:30

"Is that my hand moving alone? Tracking neural responses to errors of action and errors of body representation during action"
PAPER: That’s My Hand! Activity in Premotor Cortex Reflects Feeling of Ownership of a Limb

Gonçalo Tavares

25th November 2011

Friday

16:00

"Exploring new language learning in people with aphasia"
PAPER: Learning and maintaining new vocabulary in persons with aphasia: Two controlled case studies"

Claudia Peñaloza

18th November 2011

Friday

13:00

"Visualization of Human Frontal Networks with Diffusion Tractography"

Dr. Marco Catani

10th November 2011

Thursday

16:00

"Lateralización durante tarea de lenguaje en pacientes con epilepsia del lóbulo temporal"

Júlia Miró

28th October 2011

Friday

16:00

"Metaanalysis of fMRI and memory"
PAPER: Neural activity that predicts subsequent memory and forgetting: A meta-analysis of 74 fMRI studies

Marta Simó

21th October 2011

Friday

16:00

"Music reading: Cognitive training & Neuroimaging experiment to study Brain Plasticity"
PAPER: Brain changes after learning to read and play music

Lucía Vaquero

20th October 2011

Thursday

16:00

"Building the brain in the dark: Crossmodal plasticity in the occipital cortex of visually deprived subjects"
PAPER: Functional specialization for auditory–spatial processing in the occipital cortex of congenitally blind humans

Dr. Olivier Collignon

14th October 2011

Friday

16:00

"Auditory feedback loop in stroke rehabilitation: a support or a hindrance?"

Floris van Vugt

7th October 2011

Friday

16:00

"Reversal learning task in epileptic patients"

Adrià Vila

30th September 2011

Friday

16:00

"Placebo analgesia: (Mis)perception or cognition?"

Wael El-Deredy

26th September 2011

Friday

16:00

"Contributions of declarative and procedural memory to language: Implications for sex differences, development disorders, and second language acquisition"

Michael Ullman

23rd September 2011

Friday

16:00

"Erroneous analyses of interactions in neuroscience: a problem of significance"
PAPER: Erroneous analyses of interactions in neuroscience: a problem of significance

Josep Marco-Pallarés

9th September 2011

Friday

16:00

"The role of the medial temporal lobes in associative learning"
PAPER: Associative memory and the medial temporal lobes

Viktória Havas

29th July 2011

Friday

16:00

"Effect of selective attention in implicit rule learning in language"

Diana López-Barroso

12th July 2011

Tuesday

10:00

"Reconsolidation Blockade of Fearful Memories & Modulation of Neurophysiological Markers Of Reward And Punishment Processing And Anticipation With Probability: An Event-Related Potential Study"
PAPER: Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms & Brain potentials associated with expected and unexpected good and bad outcomes

Javiera Oyarzun & Maite Alcaina

8th July 2011

Thursday

16:00

"Error monitoring and inhibitory control in young offenders & electric shock anticipation and false recollections in a DRM paradigm"
PAPER: Early and Late Components of Error Monitoring in Violent Offenders with Psychopathy & The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognition

Adrià Vilà & Pau A. Packard

1st July 2011

Thursday

16:00

"Conflict Avoidance"
PAPER: Conflict monitoring and decision making: Reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate function

Ernest Mas

17th July 2011

Friday

16:00

"Advances in Diffusion MRI. Going against the one-track mind"
PAPER: Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Beyond

Seán Froudist Walsh

3rd July 2011

Friday

12:00

"Exploring Error Monitoring in Rhythm Production"
PAPER: Nobody Is Perfect: ERP Effects Prior to Performance Errors in Musicians Indicate Fast Monitoring Processes

Gonçalo Tavares

27th May 2011

Friday

12:00

"Magnetoencephalographic correlates of language processing and language learning"

Dr. Christian Dobel

16th May 2011

Monday

16:00

"Parallel contributions of cerebellar, striatal and M1 mechanisms to motor sequence learning"
PAPER: Specific Increases within Global Decreases: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Five Days of Motor Sequence Learning

Dr. Virginia Penhune

6th May 2011

Friday

16:00

"Tractography of the Arcuate Fasciculus and its relationship with functional connectivity between fronto-parieto-temporal areas during an artificial language learning task"
PAPER: Symmetries in human brain language pathways correlate with verbal recall

Diana López-Barroso

29th April 2011

Friday

13:00

"False memories and witness"

Dr. Lilian Milnitsky Stein

8th April 2011

Friday

13:00

"Music and emotion: reward-related circuitry"

Dr. R. Zatorre

1st April 2011

Friday

13:00

"Rising to the challenge: Brain imaging studies of successful sentence comprehension"

Dr. Davis

25th March 2011

Friday

16:00

"Tractography of the Arcuate Fasciculus and its relationship with functional connectivity between fronto-parieto-temporal areas during an artificial language learning task"
PAPER: Waiting to perceive: Reward or punishment?

Dr. Joaquín Morís Fernández

4th March 2011

Friday

16:00

"The role of FRN and P300 in probabilistic learning tasks"
PAPER: Feedback-related Negativity Codes Prediction Error but Not Behavioral Adjustment during Probabilistic Reversal Learning

Ernest Mas

25th February 2011

Friday

16:00

"An automatic pilot for the hand in human posterior parietal cortex: toward reinterpreting optic ataxia"
PAPER: An ‘automatic pilot’ for the hand in human posterior parietal cortex:toward reinterpreting optic ataxia

Borja Rodríguez Herreros

18th February 2011

Friday

16:00

"Is the post-error slowing a post-error inhibition? A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation approach"
PAPER: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Adaptive Actions after Slips

Julià Amengual

11th February 2011

Friday

16:00

"Is the amount of conflict and cognitive control modulated by non-attended information? New insights toward the role of awareness in cognitive control from a new version of the Flanker Task"
PAPER: Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update

Gonçalo Tavares

11th February 2011

Friday

16:00

"Is the amount of conflict and cognitive control modulated by non-attended information? New insights toward the role of awareness in cognitive control from a new version of the Flanker Task"
PAPER: Conflict monitoring and anterior cingulate cortex: an update

Gonçalo Tavares

4th February 2011

Friday

16:00

"Editing out Fear & Probability, uncertainty, and reward expectation response in a reinforcement learning task"
PAPER: Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms & Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons

Javiera Oyarzun & Maite Alcaina

28th February 2011

Friday

16:00

"Traumatic brain injury from the injury biomechanics point of view"

Dr. Carlos Arregui

21st February 2011

Friday

16:00

"ERP parafoveal effects during sentence reading using rapid serial visual presentation with flankers"
PAPER: Parafoveal N400 effect during sentence reading

Samara Muñoz Moreno

14th January 2011

Friday

14:00

"Verbs and nouns in Broca's area"

Victoria Havas



 SEMINARS 2010
Date

Day

Time

Topic

Speaker

3rd September 2010

Friday

17:00

Results discussion:
"Sensibility to reward in
Borderline personality disorder (BDP): an ERP study"

Josep Marco

10th September 2010

Friday

17:00

"Affective neuroscience of pleasure:
reward in humans and animals"
PAPER: Berridge & Kringelbach2008.pdf

Ernest Mas

17th September 2010

Friday

17:00

Experiment proposal:
"Adult language learning
is a slow and tedious process:
myth or reality?"
PAPER: Dumay & Gaskell_2007.pdf

Viktoria Havas

23rd September 2010

Thursday

17:00

"ERN in violent offenders"
PAPER: Brazil et al2009.pdf

Adrià Vila

1st October 2010

Friday

17:00

"Resistance to forgetting
associated with hippocampus-mediated
reactivation during new learning"

Lluís Fuentemilla

8th October 2010

Friday

17:00

"De com un Grup de Recerca de Psicologia
Bàsica i Neurociència pot ajudara
un Grup de Psicologia Clínica:
Investigació del paper de la dopamina,
la desinhibició cognitiva i
la subjectivitat en el contínuum de la psicosi"
PAPER: Kapur_2003.pdf

Neus Barrantes

15th October 2010

Friday

17:00

"Functional connectivity
and resting state"
PAPER: Biswal 2010.pdf

Pablo Ripollés

29th October 2010

Friday

17:00

"Tracking Subliminal Instrumental
Conditioning in Humans Using
Event-Related Brain Potentials"
PAPER: Pessiglione et al. 2008.pdf

David Cucurell

5th November 2010

Friday

17:00

Results discussion:
"The invigorating properties of improbable rewards"

Lluís Fuentemilla

11th November 2010

Thursday

13:00

"Mecanismos corticales y subcorticales en
inhibición motora y cognitiva
en pacientes con enfermedad de Parkinson
y el efecto de la estimulación
magnética transcraneal (TMS)"

Ignacio Obeso Martín
University College London

19th November 2010

Friday

17:00

"Rule Learning Effects
on the Lexicalization Process"
PAPER: Dumay & Gaskell.pdf

Diana López

26th November 2010

Friday

17:00

"Do Bilinguals outperform
monolinguals in task-switching paradigms?"
PAPER: Prior_Macwhinney_2010.pdf

Ernest Mas

3rd December 2010

Friday

17:00

"An automated approach
to spatial normalisation
of lesioned brains"
PAPER: Andersen2010.pdf

Pablo Ripollés

10th December 2010

Friday

17:00

"Sentence comprehension:
normal processes and pathology
related to Huntigton's disease"
PAPER: phillips2005.pdf

Sara Sambin

17th December 2010

Friday

13:00

"Minds made for sharing:
Empathy and Reward"
PAPER: Schilbach et al.jocn2009.pdf

Toni Gomila

17th December 2010

Friday

15:00

"Exploring the effects of episodic memory on false memory retrieval"

Pau Packard

14th January 2010

Thursday

16:00

"Mecanismos celulares y neuroquímicos de la extinción del miedo condicionado. Papel del
Ácido lisofosfatídico (LPA)"

Carmen Pedraza
Universidad de Málaga

22nd January 2010

Friday

17:00

"Bilingual Advance in Cued and Uncued
Task-switching within Language"
PAPER: Ruz & Nobre_JCN_2008.pdf

Ernest Mas

29th January 2010

Friday

17:00

Experiment proposal:
"Blocking reconsolidation of fear memory
in pre-surgery and post-surgery patients
with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy"
PAPER: Monfils_Ledoux_2009Science.pdf

Diana López

5th February 2010

Friday

17:00

"The Origins of Language"

Everybody

12th February 2010

Friday

17:00

"Music supported training induced
brain plasticity:
a EEG and MRI study"
PAPER: Munte_2002_nature.pdf

Nuria Rojo

19th February 2010

Friday

17:00

SWOT analysis

Antoni Rodríguez

26th February 2010

Friday

17:00

Experiment proposal:
"Awareness, Sleep and Memory Consolidation"
PAPER: Robertson et al. 2004.pdf

Lluís Fuentemilla

5th March 2010

Friday

17:00

"Exploring reward processing in subjects
with anhedonia-trait: event-related potentials study"

Gonçalo T

12th March 2010

Friday

11:00

"When Errors Are Rewarding"
PAPER: De Bruijn et al. 2009JN.pdf

David Cucurell

19th March 2010

Friday

17:00

"ADHD: Reward"

Jaume Guilera

26th March 2010

Friday

15:00

"Early stages of meaning acquisition"
PAPER: otten(2007).pdf

Viktoria Havas

8th April

Thursday

16:00

"Searching for an optimal strategy:
the effect of expectancy and uncertainty in a
probabilitic multiple choice task"
PAPERS: Cohen2007.pdf
Shanks2002.pdf

Sancho Moro

9th April 2010

Friday

17:00>

"Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception"
PAPER: Whitson&Galinsky_Science2008.pdf

Aida Mallorquí

30th April 2010

Friday

17:00

"Impaired social response reversal:
a case of acquired sociopathy"
PAPER: Blair&Cipolotti_2000.pdf

Laura Merino

7th May 2010

Friday

17:00

"Is temporal orienting of attention
relevant for language acquisition?"
PAPER: Astheimer&Sanders_2008

Ruth de Diego

14th May 2010

Friday

17:00

"Preliminary results in
rumination study"

David Cucurell

4th June 2010

Friday

17:00

"A modelling study of the relation
between capacity and precision
in visuo-spatial working-memory"

Rita Almeida

18th June 2010

Friday

17:00

"Advanced Statistical Machine Learning Methods
for the Analysis of Neurophysiologic
Data with Medical Application"

Julià Amengual

2nd July 2010

Friday

17:00

"The Framing of decision
and the Psychology of Choice"
PAPER: Tversky and Kahneman

Everybody

16th July 2010

Friday

17:00

"New names for New Things:
on the association of novel word forms
with existing semantic information"
PAPER: Dobel2001JOCN

Everybody



 SEMINARS 2009

Date

Day

Time

Topic

Speaker

13th July

Monday

16:00

"Action anticipation and motor resonance in elite basketball players"

Julià Amengual

17th July Friday 12.00

"Reinforcement Learning Model of Error Processing; Theory and Computational Simulation"
PAPER: Holroyd & Coles 2002

Azadeh Hajihosseini


21st July

Tuesday

12.00

"Estado actual del tratamiento de la dislexia, ¿se estàn haciendo las cosas bien?"
PAPER: Shaywitz et al. 2008

Josep M. Sopena

30th July

Thursday

12.00

"Second language acquisition in near-native speakers. Is there such thing as critical period?"
PAPER: David Birdsong

Viktória Havas

AUGUST!! 1,2,...,n-1, n from 00h to 24h

SUN,
BEACH,
SUNSETS,
AND ... WRITE PAPERS??

Everybody

8th September

Tuesday

11.00

"A Neuroscientific Perspective on Music Therapy"
PAPER: Koelsch_2009

Nuria Rojo

18th September

Friday

17.00

Highlight: "The Role of Sleep in False Memory Formation"
PAPER: Payne et al2009

Diana López

18th September

Friday

17.15

"Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality and Social Cognition"
PAPER: Vul et al2009.pdf

Josep Marco

2nd October

Friday

15.00

"Neurocognition Of New Word Learning in The Native Tongue: Lessons From The Ancient Farming Equipment Paradigm"

Matti Laine
Åbo Akademi University

5th October

Monday -
IN MUNDET!

17.00

Results of the experiment: "Functional Neuroanatomy of rule learning in language: role of prosodic cues in rule extracion"

Diana López

6th October

Tuesday

16.30

Experiment Design Proposal
PAPER: Bromberg et al. 2009.pdf

Azadeh H.

6th October

Tuesday

17.00

"Cognitive and neural mechanisms sustaining rule learning from speech"

Ruth de Diego

30th October

Friday

17.00

"Pay Attention to the Reward"

Estela Cámara
ICN, London
& UB

6th November


Friday

16.00

News from the "Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting", Berlin October 2009

David Cucurell
&
Azadeh Hajihosseini

6th November

Friday

16.00

TMS

Julià Amengual

13th November

Friday

17.00

"Free Will or Free Won't"
PAPER 1:Zhu_2003
PAPER 2: Libet_review1999

Gemma Torras

19th November

Thursday

12.30

"Morphological learning in second language acquisition" - Presenting data


Viktoria Havas

27th November

Friday

17.00

Thesis rehearsal "Functional Neuroanatomy of Speech Segmentation in Adults"

Toni Cunillera

2nd December

Wednesday

15.30

"How to diagnose aphasic deficits"
Sala d'Actes, 1ª pl. Pavelló de Govern
Bellvitge

Matti Laine
Åbo Akademi University
Åbo-Turku, Finland

3rd December

Thursday

15.30

"Beyond nature versus nurture: changing views of infant language acquisition"
Sala d'Actes, 1ª pl. Pavelló de Govern
Bellvitge

Jenny Saffran
University of
Wisconsin - Madison

4th December

Friday,
IN MUNDET!

-

Thesis "Functional Neuroanatomy of Speech Segmentation in Adults"

Toni Cunillera

11th December

Friday

16.00

"The Wave's Party:
very preliminar EEG results
from chronic stroke patients "

Julià Amengual