Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group

Education
September, 2008	Doctoral degree (PhD) University of Barcelona
September, 1995 - June, 2000	Degree on Psychology Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.

Publications

REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS

1. Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2008). Effects of sound location on visual task performance and electrophysiological measures of distraction. Neuroreport, 19 (15), 1535-9.

2. San Miguel, 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.

3. Cortinas, M., Corral, M. J., Garrido, G., Garolera, M., Pajares, M., & Escera, C. (2008). Reduced novelty-P3 associated with increased behavioral distractibility in schizophrenia. Biological Psychology, 78(3), 253-260.

4. Escera, C. & Corral, MJ. (2007). Role of mismatch negativity and novelty-P3 in involuntary auditory attention. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 21(3-4), 251-264.

5. Tubau, E., Escera, C., Carral, V. & Corral, M.J. (2007). Individual differences in sequence learning: The role of auditory pattern sensitivity as revealed with evoked potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 261-264.

6. Barceló, F., Escera, C., Corral, M.J. & Periáñez, J.A. (2006). Task switching and novelty processing activate a common neural network for cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 17324-1738.

7. Corbera, S., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. & Idiazábal, MA. (2005) Abnormal speech sound representation in persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology, 65(8), 1246-52.

8. Núñez-Peña, M.I., Aznar-Casanova, J.A., Linares, D., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2005) Effects of dynamic rotation on event-related brain potentials. Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 307-316.

9. Carral, V., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2005). Auditory event-related potentials as a function of abstract change magnitude. Neuroreport, 16, 301-5.

10. Escera, C., Yago, E., Corral, M.J., Corbera, S. & Nuñez, M.I. (2003). Attention capture by auditory significant stimuli: semantic analysis follows attention switching. European Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 2408-2412.

11. Escera, C., Corral, M.J. & Yago, E. (2002) An electrohysiological and behavioral investigation of involuntary attention towards auditory frequency, duration and intensity changes. Cognitive Brain Research, 14, 325-332.

12. Yago, E., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2001). Activation of the brain network of involuntary attention as a function of auditory frequency change. NeuroReport, 12, 4093-4097.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

1. Escera, C. & Corral, MJ. (2003). The distraction potential (DP), an electrophysiological tracer of involuntary attention control and its dysfunction. In I. Reinvang, M.W. Greenlee & M. Herrmann (Eds.), The cognitive neuroscience of individual differences). Oldenburg: Bibliotheks-und Informationsystem der Universität Oldenburg.

SPANISH JOURNALS

1. Nuñez, M.I., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2004). Potenciales evocados en el contexto de la investigación psicológica: una actualización. Anuario de Psicología, 35, 3-12.

REFEREED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS

1. Corbera, S., Corral, M.J., Yago, E., Idiazábal, M.A., Sangorrín, J., Escera, C. (2003). Auditory processing impairment in developmental stuttering as revealed with event-related brain potentials. Journal of Psychophysiology, 17, 47.

2. Corral, M.J., Berti, S., Widmann, A., Jacobsen, T., Yago, E., Schröger, E., Escera, C. (2003). Electrophysiologic indices of auditory distraction: MMN, P3a and RON. Journal of Psychophysiology, 17, 47.

3. Carral, V., Yago, E., Corbera, S., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. (2003). Involuntary orienting of attention is modulated by novelty significance Journal of Psychophysiology, 17, 46.

4. Escera, C., Yago, E., Corral, M.J., Corbera, S. & Carral, V. (2002). Activation of cerebral networks underlying involuntary attention by neural mechanisms in the auditory cortex. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 45, 59.

5. Corral M.J., Yago E., Carral, V. & Escera C. (2001) Changes in frequency, duration or intensity of the auditory input trigger involuntary switches of attention: A behavioral and event-related brain potential study. En E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass & T. Lachmann (Eds). Fechner Day 2001 (pp. 338-342) Leipzig (Alemania).

6. Yago, E., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2001) Activation of brain mechanisms of involuntary attention to different magnitudes of auditory frequency deviation. En E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass & T. Lachmann (Eds). Fechner Day 2001 (pp. 671-676). Leipzig (Alemania).

7. Corral, M.J., Yago, E., Carral, V. & Escera, C. (2001) Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of orienting of attention towards auditory frequency, intensity and duration changes. Psychophysiology, 38, Suppl. 1, S33.

8. Yago E., Corral M.J. & Escera C. (2001) Involuntary attention-related brain potentials as a function of auditory frequency change. Psychophysiology, 38, Suppl. 1, S102.

Congresses
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
November 3rd-7th, 2006	Escera, C., San Miguel, I., Domínguez-Borrás, J., García-García, M., Cortiñas, M. & Corral, M.J. Top-down modulation of novelty signals from the auditory cortex. The 2nd Shanghai International Conference on Physiological Biophysics - Audition & Vision (ICPB’06), Shanghai (China).
September, 2005	Barceló, C., Periañez, J.A., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. Modulations of the endogenous P3 potential during task set switching and updating. ICON IX - International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, La Habana (Cuba).
September, 2005	Barceló, C., Escera, C., Corral, M.J., Periañez, J.A. Task switching promotes distraction. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Lisboa (Portugal).
September, 2005	SanMiguel, I., Nowak, R, Domínguez-Borrás, J., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. Working memory load modulates distraction caused by irrelevant auditory stimuli. ICON IX - International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, La Habana (Cuba).
July 3rd - 8th, 2005	Corral, M.J., & Escera, C. The electrophysiology of distraction. IX European Congress of Psychology, Granada (Spain).
March 28th - 31st, 2004	Escera, C., Corral, M.J., Yago, E., Corbera, S. & Nuñez, M.I. Attention capture by significant stimuli: semantic analysis follows attention switching. EPIC XIV, Evoked Potentials International Conference, Leipzig (Germany).
September 10th -14th, 2003	Barceló, F., Corral, M.J., Periáñez, J.A. & Escera, C. Endogenous and exogenous attentional control of task-set switching. V Congress of the Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies, Burdeos (France).
July 29th – August 3rd, 2002	Escera, C., Yago, E., Corral, M.J., Corbera, S., Carral, V. Activation of cerebral networks underlying involuntary attention by change detection in the auditory cortex. 11th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Montreal (Canada).
September 9th - 15th, 2002	Corbera, S., Corral, M.J., Idiazabal, M.A., Sangorrin, J., Yago, E & Escera, C. Neurophysiological evidence of high-order auditory dysfunction in developmental stuttering. International Congress on Cognitive Neuroscience VIII (ICON8), Marseille (France).
POSTERS
May 7th – June 22nd, 2008.	Psychologisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz (Germany).
January 24th – February 8th, 2003.	Centro de Magnetoencefalografía “Dr: Pérez Modrego”, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
January 27th – February 9th, 2002.	BioCog: Kognitive einschließlich Biologische Psychologie, Fakultät für Biowissenschaften, Pharmazie und Psychologie, Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig (Germany).
October, 18th – November, 17th, 2001.	BioCog: Kognitive einschließlich Biologische Psychologie, Fakultät für Biowissenschaften, Pharmazie und Psychologie, Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig (Germany).

Languages

Spanish, Catalan & Galician (native); English