Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group

I studied Psychology in Barcelona and obtained my PhD in Neurosciences at the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, under the supervision of Carles Escera, where I was later teaching for 2.5 years as an assistant professor. Now, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the LabNic under the supervision of Patrik Vuilleumier. During my thesis, I studied the effects of emotional processing on brain responses to novel events, using ERPs and fMRI. My current project seeks to further explore this modulatory effect by emotion at a multisensory level.

Publications

Dopamine regulates the modulation of novelty processing by an emotional context: behavioral and electrophysiological evidences. Garcia-Garcia, M., Domínguez-Borràs, J., Clemente, I., Escera, C. (2010). Neuropsychologia, 48(5), 1483-1488.

Tuning the brain for novelty detection under emotional threat: the role of increasing gamma phase-synchronization. Garcia-Garcia, M, Yordanova, J., Kolev, V., Domínguez-Borràs, J., Escera, C. (2010). Neuroimage, 49(1),1038-1044.

Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing in superior temporal gyrus. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Trautmann, S.A., Erhard, P., Fehr, T., Herrmann, M., Escera, C. (2009). Cerebral Cortex, 19(7), 1521-1529.

Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Garcia-Garcia, M., Escera, C. (2008). European Journal of Neuroscience, 28(6), 1199-1206.

Negative emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Garcia-Garcia, M., Escera, C. (2008). NeuroReport, 19(4): 503-7.

Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence of gender differences in the modulation of distraction by the emotional context. Garcia-Garcia, M., Domínguez-Borràs, J., SanMiguel, I., Escera, C. (2008). Biological Psychology, 79, 307-316.

Book Chapter

Attentional bias towards threatening emotional face expressions. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Escera, C. (2008). In Balconi, M. (Ed.). Emotional face comprehension. Neuropsychological perspectives (pp. 99-112). New York: Nova Science Publishers.