The Barcelona Brainlab (BBL), led by Prof. Carles Escera, belongs to the Research Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (IR3C) of the University of Barcelona (UB), and to its Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, where it is located. The BBL seeks to unravel the cerebral mechanisms of cognitive functions, from attention and auditory perception to working memory and executive control. We are also interested in emotional processing and in cognitive dysfunction in a broad spectrum of neurological, neurodevelopment and psychiatric disorders. To achieve our goals, we use a multidisciplinary approach based mainly on the recording of the human electroencephalogram (EEG) to analyze event-related brain potentials (such as the mismatch negativity -MMN) and oscillatory brain activity (such as the gamma band response -GBR), in combination with magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and neurogenetic analysis.

Our group coordinates the Research Group of Excellence in Cognitive Neuroscience of UB, established by the Catalan Government (SGR2005-00953 and SGR2009-11), the Spanish Network in Cognitive Neuroscience of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (PSI2008-00968-E/PSIC), and the ERANET-NEURON project PANS (Probing the Auditory Novelty System) of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. Our group is part of Brainglot, a consortium of six research groups supported by the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Scheme of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science on Bilingualism and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSD2007-00012) and of the Barcelona Neuroscience Network . We also participate in the International Master Degree in Neurosciences and the International PhD Programme in Biomedicine (Neural Sciences track) of University of Barcelona.