Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group

Past Professional Positions
Dec, 2008- Aug, 2009	Postdoctoral researcher, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Dept. Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Jan, 2005 - Dec, 2008	PhD student, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Dept. Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Nov, 2004 - May, 2005	Junior Researcher, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), Biological Psychology Department, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU), The Netherlands.

International research visits & colaborations
Oct 2007- Dec 2007 April 2007 Sept 2006- Dec 2006	Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor. UK. (Prof. David Linden) “Integrated ERP and fMRI investigation on the interaction between working memory and distraction”.
August 2007	Department of Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, Bremen University, Germany. (Prof. Manfred Herrmann) “The cognitive neuroscience of involuntary attention: A combined ERP and fMRI investigation”
Summer 2003	Biological Psychology Department, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (KUN), Nijmegen, The Netherlands. (Dr. Paul A.T.M. Eling and Anikka Smit) “Performance fluctuations of low and high demanding tasks: Diurnal variation in resources”

Publications

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

SanMiguel, I., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. (2008). When loading working memory reduces distraction: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from an auditory-visual distraction paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20,7: 1131-1145.

Parmentier, F. B. R., Elford, G., Escera C., Andrés, P. & San Miguel, I. (2008). The cognitive locus of distraction by acoustic novelty in the cross-modal oddball task. Cognition, 106, 408-432.

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.

Submitted or in preparation:

SanMiguel, I., Morgan, H., Klein, C., Linden, D., Escera, C. On the functional significance of Novelty-P3: Facilitation by unexpected novel sounds. Submitted.

SanMiguel, I., Trautmann, S., Escera, C., Erhard, P., Fehr, T., Domínguez-Borràs, J., Herrman, M. BOLD responses reveal two parallel mechanisms for coping with distracting sounds. Submitted.

San Miguel I., Escera C., Yabe H., Nowak R., Matsuoka T., Tomiharu, H., Sunao, K. Selective top-down modulation of recurrent novelty processing in human auditory cortex. In preparation.

Participations in congresses
International
Poster	“The fate of unexpected novel sounds: Distraction or facilitation depending on the attentional set” SanMiguel, I., Escera, C., Linden, D. Xth International Conference in Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X), 1-5 September 2008, Bodrum, Turkey.
Poster	“Novelty-P3: an index of involuntary orienting, but not distraction.” SanMiguel I., Morgan H., Klein C., Linden D., Escera C. Xth International Conference in Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON X), 1-5 September 2008, Bodrum, Turkey.
Oral communication	“Cognitive set effects on auditory novelty processing during visual task performance.” SanMiguel, I., Escera, C. ESCOP XV, August 2007, Marseille, France.
Oral communication	“Working memory load modulates distraction caused by irrelevant auditory stimuli” SanMiguel, I., Nowak, R, Domínguez-Borrás, J., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. IX International Conference in Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON9). September 5-10, 2005, Havana City, Cuba
Oral communication	“Gating of novelty processing in auditory cortex by working memory load: a magnetoencephalography study” Nowak R., Yabe H. , SanMiguel I., Matsuoka T.,Asai R. , Escera C. IX International Conference in Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON9). September 5-10, 2005, Havana City, Cuba.
National
Poster	“Source analysis of Novelty-P3 constrained by fMRI activation” SanMiguel, I., Linden, D., Escera, C. III Workshop in advances in the research of brain activity of the Spanish Network on Cognitive Neuroscience, 17-18 July 2008, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Poster	“Facilitacion conductual causada por la ocurrencia de sonidos novedosos irrelevantes” SanMiguel, I., Linden, D., Escera, C. II Workshop in advances in the research of brain activity of the Spanish Network on Cognitive Neuroscience. 20-21 September 2007, Madrid, Spain.
Poster	“Locus cognitivo de la distracción cros-modal” SanMiguel, I., Parmentier, F., Escera, C. I Workshop in advances in the research of brain activity of the Spanish Network on Cognitive Neuroscience, July 14-15, 2006, Madrid, Spain.
Oral communication	“Cuando la carga en memoria de trabajo reduce la distracción: Evidencia conductual y electrofisiológica en un paradigma de distracción auditivo-visual.” SanMiguel, I., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. Reunion cientifica sobre atención (RECA) 6, 12-14 April 2006, Barcelona, Spain.
Poster	“Facilitación conductual causada por la ocurrencia de sonidos novedosos irrelevantes”. SanMiguel, I., Alvarez-Mora. A., Linden, D., Escera, C. Reunion cientifica sobre atención (RECA) 6, 12-14 April 2006, Barcelona, Spain.
Poster	“Effects of working memory load on distraction by significant auditory stimuli” SanMiguel, I., Corral, M.J., Nowak, R., Domínguez, J., Escera, C. IV Congress of the Spanish Psychophysiology Society (SEPF), 7-9 October 2004, Sevilla,Spain.