Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group

Education
Currently:	PhD program of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona (UB).
September 1997- January 2003	Degree In Psychology, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.
August 2000-June 2001	Academic year at the Norges Naturvitenskapelige Universitet i Trondheim (NTNU), Norway.

Current position
May, 2004- currently	predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (FPI-MCyT), now Ministry of Education and Science (MEC).

STAYS ABROAD
September 26th- December 23rd 2005 and March 12th- March 23rd 2006: Department of Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, Bremen University, Germany. Pr. Manfred Herrmann.

OTHER COURSES ATTENDED
March 2nd-11th 2005:	Helsinki Winter School in Cognitive Neuroscience. Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland.
July 14 th -15th 2006:	I Workshop sobre Tratamiento de Señales Multicanal. Red Temática de Neurociencia Cognitiva. Spain.

Current projects

Brain mechanisms of top-down modulation towards involuntary attention, regarding emotional context. My current project aims at investigating the functional relationship between distraction elicited by auditory events and a context of visual emotional processing, by means of behavioural measurements, ERPs and fMRI. In two different studies, I have observed that an implicit negative emotion processing can enhance this distraction effect.

PUBLICATIONS

Domínguez-Borràs, J., Escera, C. Distraction modulation by emotional context: an ERP study. (in prep.)

Domínguez-Borràs, J., Trautmann, S., Erhard, P., Fehr, T., Herrmann, M., Escera, C. Distraction modulation by negative emotional context processing: an fMRI study. (submitted)

Domínguez-Borràs, J., Escera, C. Influences of negative emotional face processing on perception and attention. In: Emotional face comprehension. Neuropsychological perspectives. Ed: Michela Balconi. New York, Nova Science Publisher (in prep.).

ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Domínguez-Borràs,J.,Yago, E., Corral, M.J., Nowak, R. y Escera, C. Modulación del procesamiento visual temprano ante sonidos novedosos distractores. Poster presentation. IV Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología. Sevilla, Spain. 7-9 october, 2004.

SanMiguel, I., Corral, M.J., Nowak, R., Domínguez, J., Escera, C. Efectos de la carga en memoria de trabajo sobre la distracción ante estímulos auditivos significativos. Poster presentation. IV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología (SEPF). Sevilla, Spain. 7-9 october.

Domínguez-Borràs, J., Nowak, R., Escera, C. Distraction modulation by emotional context. Poster presentation. IX International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON9). La Habana, Cuba. 5-10 september, 2005.

SanMiguel, I., Nowak, R, Domínguez-Borràs, J., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. Working memory load modulates distraction caused by irrelevant auditory stimuli. Oral Communication. IX International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON9). La Habana, Cuba.5-10 september, 2005.

Escera, C., Domínguez-Borràs, J., San Miguel, I., Nowak, R. & Corral, M.J. Emotional context and working memory load effects on auditory distraction. Oral communication. Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) 45th annual meeting. Lisboa, Portugal. 21-24 september, 2005.

Domínguez-Borràs, J., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. Distraction modulation by emotional context: an ERP study. Poster presentation. V Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología (SEPF). Granada, Spain. 28-30 september, 2006.

Domínguez-Borràs, J., Trautmann, S., Erhard, P., Fehr, T., Herrmann, M., Escera, C. Distraction modulation by negative emotional context processing: an fMRI study. Oral communication. V Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología (SEPF). Granada, Spain. 28-30 september, 2006.

TECHNICAL skills

ERP & EEG software: NeuroscanÔ, STIM®, ANT Software b.v. Netherlands (Eemagine, Eevoke, Eeprobe, ASA), Presentation ®.

ERP acquisition material: EasyCap (64 channels) and ElectroCap (32 channels).

fMRI acquisition and analysis: 3 Tesla Siemens Allegra® and SPM2.

Animal research: Skinner boxes, rat handling.