Last Monday January 28th, 2019, at 11:00 at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona, Natàlia Gorina-Careta defended her thesis entitled Contribution of the subcortical auditory pathway to the perception and processing of sounds. The thesis was supervised by Dr. Carles Escera, head of Brainlab, and carried out in part in collaboration with Dr. Piia Astikainen, Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
The thesis was carried out under the Brain, Cognition and Behavior PhD program of the University of Barcelona, and was submitted as a compendium of the following studies:
* Gorina-Careta N, Zarnowiec K, Costa-Faidella J, Escera C (2016). Timing predictability enhances regularity encoding in the human subcortical auditory pathway. Scientific Reports, 6:37405.
* Gorina-Careta N, Escera C (2018). Subcortical sound encoding modulates simple auditory perceptual decisions. Scientific Reports, under review.
* Gorina-Careta N, Kurkela J, Hämäläinen J, Astikainen P, Escera C (2018). Understanding the Frequency-Following Response and its generators to sounds of different frequencies: an MEG study. (In preparation).
After the defense and a thoughtful discussion given by the candidate, now Dr. Natàlia Gorina-Careta, and the panel members (Chair: Prof. Mercedes Atienza, University of Balearic Islands, Spain; Dr. Anne Caclin, INSERM-Brain Dynamics and Cognition (DYCOG) team of the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), France; Dr. Iria SanMiguel, University of Barcelona), the thesis was given the highest grade at our university: Excel.lent Cum Laude.
Congratulations to Natàlia, she did a superb PhD work, and an incredible defense!
