Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group

Education
15th of October 2003 – 11th of January 2008.	PhD program, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, BCN NeuroImaging Center, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Research project: Auditory Processing in the Brainstem and AudioVisual Integration in Humans Studied with fMRI, Prof. dr. ir. Hendrikus Duifhuis
2001 - 2002	Master Study: Medical Techniques and Bioinstrumentation Specialization, Faculty of Medical Bioengineering, University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Gr.T.Popa’ Iasi, Romania, Final year project: Nonlinear Dynamics of Cardiac Rhythm.
1995 - 2001	Faculty of Medical Bioengineering, University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Gr.T.Popa’ Iasi, Romania, Medical Techniques and Bioinstrumentation Specialization.

Current position
May, 2008- currently	Postdoctoral researcher - Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology University of Barcelona (UB).

current projects

The current project is to study the auditory novelty with EEG, and with fMRI. A desirable horizon would be imaging novelty activation in human inferior colliculus (or thalamus).

PUBLICATIONS

Slabu LM (2008) Auditory processing in the brainstem and audioVisual integration in humans studied with fMRI, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, ISBN 978-90-367-3224-6, ISBN electronic: 978-90-367-3225-3.

Slabu LM (2010) The Effect of Slice Orientation on Auditory fMRI at the Level of the Brainstem, Brain Topography 23(3):301-10.

Slabu L, Escera C, Grimm S, Costa-Faidella J (2010) Early change detection in humans as revealed by auditory brainstem and middle-latency evoked potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience 32(5): 859-865.

Grimm S, Escera C, Slabu L, Costa-Faidella J (2010). Electrophysiological evidence for the hierarchical organization of auditory change detection in the human brain. Psychophysiology. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01073.x

Costa-Faidella J, Grimm S, Slabu L, Díaz-Santaella F, Escera C (2010) Multiple time scales of adaptation in the auditory system as revealed by human evoked potentials. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01144.x.

Wiersinga-Post JEC, Tomaskovic S, Slabu L, Renken R, de Smit F, Duifhuis H, Decreased BOLD responses in audiovisual processing, Neuroreport. doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e328340cc47.

LM Slabu, C Escera. Imaging of the Human Auditory Brainstem- A review (to be submitted).

ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Slabu LM, Renken R, Hoogduin JM, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Imaging subcortical auditory in humans using fMRI, June 2007, Human Brain Mapping, Chicago.

Slabu LM, Renken R, Hoogduin JM, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Imaging subcortical auditory in humans using fMRI, Association for research in Otolaryngology, 30th Mid-winter meeting, February 2007, Denver, Colorado, USA.

Slabu LM, Renken R, Hoogduin JM, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, The effect of slice orientations on auditory fmri at the inferior colliculi level, Mind and Brain IV: Images of the Working Brain, September 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

International Summer School on MRI and MRS (Romanian Cultural Institute and ISMRM), June 2006, Poiana Brasov, Romania.

Slabu LM, Renken R, Hoogduin JM, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Imaging subcortical auditory in humans using fMRI, Association for research in Otolaryngology, 29th Mid-winter meeting, February 2006, Baltimore, USA.

Slabu LM, Renken R, Hoogduin JM, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, The effect of slice orientations on auditory fMRI at the inferior colliculi level, InterGK 2006, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Tomaskovic S, Slabu LM, Renken R, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Audio-visual integration in speech perception: an fMRI study using the McGurk effect, Mind and Brain IV: Images of the Working Brain, September 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Tomaskovic S, Slabu LM, Renken R, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Audio-visual integration in speech perception: an fMRI study, Human Brain Mapping, June 2005, Toronto, Canada.

International Summer School on MRI and MRS (Romanian Cultural Institute and ISMRM), June 2005, Sinaia, Romania.

Slabu LM, Renken R, Hoogduin JM, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Imaging subcortical auditory activity in humans using fMRI, Dutch Endo-Neuro Meeting, June 2005, Doorwerth, The Netherlands.

Tomaskovic S, Slabu LM, Renken R, Wiersinga-Post JEC, Duifhuis H, Audio-visual integration in speech perception: an fMRI study using the McGurk effect, Association for research in Otolaryngology, 28th Mid-winter meeting, February 2005, New Orleans, USA.