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INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

2009

64. Garcia-Garcia, M, Yordanova, J., Kolev, V., Domínguez-Borràs, J., & Escera, C. (2009). Tuning the brain for novelty detection under emotional threat: the role of increasing gamma phase-synchronization. Neuroimage, in press.

63. SanMiguel, I., Linden, D., & Escera, C. (2009). Attention capture by novel sounds: Distraction vs. facilitation. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, in press.

62. Fuentemilla, L., Marco-Pallarés, J., Gual, A., Escera, C., Polo, MD., & Grau, C. (2008). Impaired theta phase-resetting underlying auditory N1 suppression in chronic alcoholism. Neuroreport, 20(3), 337-342.

61. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Trautmann, S.A., Erhard, P., Fehr, T., Herrmann, M., & Escera, C. (2008). Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing in superior temporal gyrus. Cerebral Cortex, 19(7), 1521-1529.

60. Núñez-Peña, M.I. & Aznar-Casanova, J.A (2009). Mental rotation of mirrored letters: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Brain and Cognition, 69(1), 180-7.

2008

59. Díaz, B., Baus, C., Escera, C., Costa, A., Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2008). Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(42), 16083-8.

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

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

56. Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2008). Effects of sound location on visual task performance and electrophysiological measures of distraction. Neuroreport, 19, 1535-1539.

55. Núñez-Peña, M.I. (2008). Effects of training on the arithmetic problem-size effect: an event-related potential study. Experimental Brain Research, 190, 105-110.

54. Cortiñas, M., Corral, M.J., Garrido, G., Garolera, M., Pajares, M., & Escera, C. (2008). Reduced novelty-P3 associated with increased behavioral distractibility in schizophrenia. Biological Psychology, 78, 253-260.

53. SanMiguel, I., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2008). More working memory load equals less distraction: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from an auditory-visual distraction paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(7), 1131-1145.

52. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Garcia-Garcia, M. & Escera, C. (2008). Negative emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing. Neuroreport, 19, 503-507

51. Vázquez-Marrufo, M., González-Rosa, J.J., Vaquero, E., Duque, P., Escera, C. , Borges, M., Izquierdo, G., & Gómez, C.M. (2008). Abnormal ERPs and high frequency bands power in multiple sclerosis. International Journal of Neuroscience, 118, 27–38.

50. Parmentier, F., Elford, G., Escera, C., Andrés, P. & SanMiguel, I. (2008). The cognitive locus of auditory distraction by acoustic novelty in the cross-modal oddball task. Cognition, 106, 402-432.

2007

49. Escera, C. (2007). The mismatch negativity (MMN) thirty years later: How far have we come? Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 129-132.

48. Escera, C. & Corral, MJ. (2007). Role of mismatch negativity and novelty-P3 in involuntary auditory attention. Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 251-264.

47. Tubau, E., Escera, C., Carral, V. & Corral, M.J. (2007). Individual differences in sequence learning: The role of auditory pattern sensitivity as revealed with evoked potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 261-264.

46. Nuñez-Peña, M.I. & Escera, C. (2007). Effects of rule violation on arithmetical sequence processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 165-173.

45. Marco, J., Ruffini, G., Polo, M.D., Gual, A., Escera, C. & Grau, C. (2007). Mismatch negativity impairment associated with alcohol consumption in chronic alcoholics: A scalp current density study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 65, 51-57.

2006

44. Andrés, P., Parmentier, F.B.R. & Escera, C. (2006). The effect of age on the involuntary capture of attention by irrelevant sounds: a test of the frontal hypothesis of aging. Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychologia, 44, 2564-2568.

43. Barceló, F., Escera, C., Corral, M.J. & Periañez, J.A. (2006). Task switching and novelty processing activate a common neural network for cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1734-1738.

42. Corbera, S., Escera, C. & Artigas, J. (2006). Impaired duration mismatch negativity in developmental dyslexia. Neuroreport, 17, 1051-1055.

41. Nuñez-Peña, M.I., Cortiñas, M. & Escera, C. (2006). Problem size effect and processing strategies in mental arithmetics. Neuroreport, 17(4), 357-60.

2005

40. Corbera, S., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. & Idiazábal, M.A. (2005). Abnormal speech sound representation in persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology, 65, 1246-1252.

39. Carral, V., Huotilainen, M., Rusuuvirta, T., Fellman, V., Näätänen, R. & Escera, C. (2005). A kind of auditory “primitive” intelligence already present at birth. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21, 3201-3204.

38. Nuñez-Peña, M.I., Aznar, J.A., Linares, D., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2005). Effects of dynamic rotation on event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 307-316.

37. Carral, V., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2005). Auditory event-related potentials as a function of abstract change magnitude. Neuroreport, 16, 301-305.

36. Núñez-Peña, M.I. y Honrubia-Serrano, M.L. (2005). N400 and category-exemplar associative strength. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 56, 45-54 .

35. Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Escera, C., Hämäläinen, M., Huotilainen, M., Häyrinen, T., Oksanen, H., Näätänen, R., von Wendt, L., & Alho, K. (2005). Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced distractibility in ADHD children. Neuroscience Letters, 374, 212-217.

34. Núñez-Peña, M.I. Honrubia-Serrano, M.L., & Escera, C. (2005). Problem size effect in additions and substractions: An event-related potencial study. Neuroscience Letters, 373, 21-25.

2004

33. Núñez-Peña, M.I. & Honrubia-Serrano, M.L. (2004). P600 related to rule violation in an arithmetic task. Cognitive Brain Research, 18, 130-141.

32. Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Alho, K., Escera, C. & Näätänen, R. (2004). Effects of auditory distraction on electrophysiological brain activity and performance in children aged 8–14 years. Psychophysiology, 41, 30-36.

2003

31. Escera, C., Yago, E., Corral, M.J., Corbera, S. & Nuñez, M.I. (2003). Attention capture by auditory significant stimuli: semantic analysis follows attention switching. European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2408-2412.

30. Yago, E., Escera, C., Alho, K., Giard, M.H. & Serra-Grabulosa, J.M. (2003). Cerebral spatio-temporal dynamics of novelty processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 383-390.

29. Polo, M.D., Escera, C., Yago, E., Alho, K., Gual, A., & Grau, C. (2003). Electrophysiological evidence of abnormal activation of the cerebral network of involuntary attention in alcoholism. Clinical Neurophysiology, 114, 134-136.

28. Atienza, M., Cantero, J.L., Grau, C., Gómez, C., Domínguez-Marín, E. & Escera, C. (2003). Effects of temporal encoding on auditory object formation: a mismatch negativity study. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 359-371.

2002

27. Escera, C., Corral, M.J. & Yago, E. (2002). An electrophysiological and behavioral investigation of involuntary attention towards auditory frequency, duration and intensity changes. Cognitive Brain Research, 14, 325-332.

26. Polo, M.D., Newton, P., Rogers, D., Escera, C. & Butler, S.R. (2002). ERP and behavioural indices of long-term preattentive and attentive deficits after closed head injury. Neuropsychologia, 40, 2350-2359.

2001

25. Escera, C., Yago, E. & Alho, K. (2001). Electrical responses reveal the temporal dynamics of brain events during involuntary attention switching. European Journal of Neuroscience, 14, 877-883.

24. Yago, E., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2001). Activation of the brain network of involuntary attention as a function of auditory frequency change. NeuroReport, 12, 4093-4097.

23. Yago, E., Escera, C., Alho, K. & Giard, M.H. (2001). Cerebral mechanisms underlying orienting of attention towards auditory frequency changes. NeuroReport, 12, 2583.2587.

22. Atienza, M., Cantero, J.L. & Escera, C. (2001). Auditory information processing during human sleep as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112, 2031-2045.

21. Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Alho, K., Escera, C., Schröger, E., Ilmoniemi, R.J. & Näätänen, R. (2001). Brain activity indices of distractibility in healthy children of school age. Neuroscience Letters, 314, 147-150.

20. Novitski, N., Alho, K., Korzyukov, O., Carlson, S., Martinkauppi, S., Escera, C., Rinne, T., Aronen, H.J., Näätänen, R. (2001). Effects of acoustic noise of functional magnetic resonance imaging on the processing of auditory stimuli and change as reflected by event-related brain potentials. Neuroimage, 14, 244-251.

19. Grau, C., Polo, M.D., Yago, E., Gual, A. & Escera, C., (2001). Shorter duration of auditory sensory memory in chronic alcoholics. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112, 728-731.

18. Serra, J.M., Grau, C., Escera, C. & Sánchez-Turet, M. (2001). The H1-receptor antagonist dextro-Chlorpheniramine impairs selective auditory attention in the absence of subjective awareness of this impairment. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 21, 599-602.

17. Zgorzalewicz, M., Galas-Zgorzalewicz, B. & Nowak, R. (2001). Analysis of the measurement methods of endogenous, cognitive P300 potential in school children and adolescents. Folia Neurophatologica, 39, 3-8

2000

16. Escera, C., Alho, K., Schröger, E. & Winkler, I. (2000). Iinvoluntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentials. Audiology & Neuro-Otology, 5, 151-166.

15. Escera, C., Yago, E., Polo, M.D. & Grau, C. (2000). The individual replicability of mismatch negativity at short and long inter-stimulus intervals. Clinical Neurophysiology, 111, 546-551.

14. Näätänen, R. & Escera, C. (2000). Mismatch negativity (MMN): Clinical and other applications. Audiology & Neuro-Otology, 5, 105-110.

13. Amenedo, E. & Escera, C. (2000). The accuracy of sound duration representation in the human brain determines the accuracy of behavioural perception. European Journal of Neuroscience, 12, 2570-2574.

12. Ahveninen, J., Escera, C., Polo, M.D., Grau, C. & Jääskeläinen, I (2000). Acute and chronic effects of alcohol on pre-attentive auditory processing. Audiology & Neuro-Otology, 5, 303-311.

1999

11. Polo, M.d., Escera, C., Gual, C. & Grau, C. (1999). Mismatch negativity and auditory sensory memory in chronic alcoholics. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23, 1744-1750.

10. Kaipio, M.L., Alho, K., Winkler, I, Escera, C., Surma-aho, O. & Näätänen, R. (1999). Event-related potentials reveal covert distractibility in closed head injuries. NeuroReport. 10, 2125-2129.

1998

9. Escera, C., Alho, K., Winkler, I. & Näätänen, R. (1998). Neural mechanisms of involuntary attention to acoustic novelty and change. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(5), 590-604.

8. Grau, C., Escera, C., Yago, E. & Polo, M.D. (1998). Mismatch Negativity and auditory sensory memory evaluation: A new faster paradigm. NeuroReport, 9, 2451-2456.

7. Alho, K., Winkler, I., Escera, C., Huotilainen, M., Virtanen, J., Jääskeläinen, I., Pekkonen, E. & Ilmoniemi, R. (1998). Processing of novel sounds and frequency changes in the human auditory cortex: Magnetoencephalographic recordings. Psychophysiology, 35, 211-224.

6. Huotilainen, M., Winkler, I., Alho, K., Escera, C., Virtanen, J., Jääskeläinen, I., Pekkonen, E., Ilmoniemi, R. & Näätänen, R. (1998). Combined mapping of human auditory EEG and MEG responses. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 108, 370-379.

1997

5. Escera, C. (1997). Nuevas aplicaciones clínicas de los potenciales evocados: Mismatch Negativity. Medicina Clínica, 108, 701-708.

4. Alho, K., Escera, C., Díaz, R., Yago, E. & Serra, J.M. (1997). Effects of involuntary auditory attention on visual task performance and brain activity. NeuroReport, 8, 3233-3237.

1996

3. Escera, C. & Grau, C. (1996). Short-term replicability of the mismatch negativity. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 100, 549-554.

2. Serra, J.M., Escera, C., Sánchez-Turet, M., Sánchez-Sastre, J. & Grau, C. (1996). The H1-receptor antagonist chlorpheniramine decreases the ending phase of the mismatch negativity of the human auditory event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters, 203, 77-80.

1. Jääskeläinen, I., Alho, K., Escera, C., Winkler, I., Sillanaukee, P. & Näätänen, R. (1996). Effects of ethanol and auditory distraction on forced choice reaction time. Alcohol, 13, 153-156.

BOOKS

4. Solanas, A., Salafranca, L., Fauquet, J. & Núñez, M.I. (2004). Estadística descriptiva en ciencias del comportamiento. Madrid: Thomson & Learning.

3. Yago, E., Tervaniemi, M. & Escera, C. (Eds.) (2000). Abstract book of the Second International Congress on Mismatch Negativity and its Clinical Applications. Barcelona: Neurodynamics Laboratory.

2. Salafranca, Ll., Solanas, A., Núñez, M.I., Jiménez, M., Miralles, D. & Serra, G. (2000). Estadística aplicada con SPSS y Statgraphics. Barcelona: Edicions de la Universidad de Barcelona.

1. Tervaniemi, M. & Escera, C. (Eds.) (1998). Abstracts of the First International Congress on Mismatch Negativity and its Clinical Applications. Helsinki: Multiprint.

BOOK CHAPTERS

10. Domínguez-Borràs, J. & Escera, C. (2008). Attentional bias towards threatening emotional face expressions. In: Emotional face comprehension. Neuropsychological perspectives. Ed: Michela Balconi. New York, Nova Science Publishers, in press.

9. Escera, C. & Corral, M.J. (2003). The distraction potential (DP), an electrophysiological tracer of involuntary attention control and its dysfunction. In I. Reinvang, M.W. Greenlee & M. Herrmann (Eds.), The cognitive neuroscience of individual differences (pp. 63-76). Oldenburg: Bibliotheks-und Informationsystem der Universität Oldenburg.

8. Alho, K., Escera, C. & Schröger, E. (2003). Event-related brain potential indices of involuntary attention to auditory stimulus changes. En J. Polich (Ed.), Detection of change: event-related potential and fMRI findings (23-40). Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

7. Corral MJ., Yago E., Carral, V. & Escera C. (2001) Changes in frequency, duration or intensity of the auditory input trigger involuntary switches of attention: A behavioral and event-related brain potential study. En E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass & T. Lachmann (Eds). Fechner Day 2001 (pp. 338-342). Leipzig: Pabst.

6. Yago E., Corral MJ. & Escera C. (2001) Activation of brain mechanisms of involuntary attention to different magnitudes of auditory frequency deviation. En E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass & T. Lachmann (Eds). Fechner Day 2001 (pp. 671-676). Leipzig: Pabst.

5. Escera, C. (2001). Trastornos de la audición. En M.A. Simón & E. Amenedo (Eds.), Manual de psicofisiología clínica (pp. 217-250). Madrid: Pirámide.

4. Díaz, R., Polo, M.D., Escera, C., Sánchez-Turet, M. & Grau, C. (1999). Marcadores neurogenéticos de riesgo para el alcoholismo crónico. En M. Sánchez-Turet (Ed.), Enfermedades y problemas relacionados con el alcohol (pp. 63-111). Barcelona: Espaxs.

3. Yago, E. & Escera, C. (1998). P3a: Una señal electrofisiológica de la captura atencional. En J. Botella & V. Ponsoda (Eds.), La atención: una aproximación multidisciplinar (pp. 17-26). Valencia: Promolibro.

2. Zgorzalewicz, M, Nowak, R., Galas-Zgorzalewicz, B. (1998). Neurophysiological study in children and adolescents with epilepsy receiving lamotrigine. In J. Majkowski, K. Owczarek & P. Zwolinski (Eds.), New Trends in Epileptology (pp. 123-127). Bologna: Monduzzi Editore.

1. Zgorzalewicz, M, Nowak, R., Galas-Zgorzalewicz, B. (1998). Auditory event-related potentials in epileptic children and adolescents. In Milivoj Velickovic Perat (Ed.), New developments in child neurology (pp. 515-523). Bologna: Monduzzi Editore.

SPANISH JOURNALS

12. Núñez-Peña, M.I. y Aznar-Casanova, J.A (2009). Rotación mental: Cómo la mente rota las imágenes hasta colocarlas en su posición normal. Ciencia Cognitiva: Revista electrónica de divulgación, 3(2), 58-61.

11. Escera, C. (2004). ¿Y existe pues la Neurociencia Cognitiva? Cognitiva, 16, 251-255.

10. Escera, C. (2004). Aproximación histórica y conceptual a la Neurociencia Cognitiva. Cognitiva, 16, 141-161.

9. Nuñez, M.I., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2004). Potenciales evocados cerebrales en el contexto de la investigación psicológica: una actualización. Anuario de Psicología, 35, 3-21.

8. Solanas, A., Díaz, A., Fauquet, J., Núñez, M.I. & Salafranca, Ll. (2002). La enseñanza de la Estadística en las Ciencias del Comportamiento a inicios del siglo XXI. Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, 4, 157-183.

7. Escera, C. (2002). Evaluación de disfunciones neurocognitivas con potenciales evocados. Revista de Psiquiatría, 29, 362-373.

6. Serra-Grabulosa, J.M., Sánchez-Turet, M., Grau, C. & Escera, C. (2002). El potencial P300 en la evaluación de los efectos secundarios de la dexclorfeniramina. Revista de Neurología, 35, 306-310.

5. Escera, C. (1997). Potencial de disparidad (mismatch negativity): Características y aplicaciones. Anuario de Psicología, 72, 63-80.

4. Escera, C. (1997). Mecanismos cerebrales de la atención involuntaria: potencial de disparidad (MMN), N1 y P3a. Psicothema, 9, 565-578.

3.Escera, C. (1996). El sistema atencional humano en audición: estudio con potenciales evocados. Cognitiva, 8, 169-201.

2. Polo, M.D., Díaz, R., Escera, C., Sánchez-Turet, M. & Grau, C. (1995). Caracterización del alcoholismo familiar. Anuario de Psicología, 66, 37-63.

1. Gómez, C., Escera, C., Cilveti, R., Díaz, R. & Portavella, M. (1992). Localización neuroeléctrica de procesos cognitivos. Anuario de Psicología, 54, 77-96.