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INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
2009
   
64. Garcia-Garcia, M, Yordanova, J., Kolev, V., Domínguez-Borràs, J., & Escera, C. (2009). Tuning the brain for novelty detection under emotional threat: the role of increasing gamma phase-synchronization. Neuroimage, in press.
   
63. SanMiguel, I., Linden, D., & Escera, C. (2009). Attention capture by novel sounds: Distraction vs. facilitation. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, in press.
   
62. Fuentemilla, L., Marco-Pallarés, J., Gual, A., Escera, C., Polo, MD., & Grau, C. (2009). Impaired theta phase-resetting underlying auditory N1 suppression in chronic alcoholism. Neuroreport, 20(3), 337-342.   pdf
   
61. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Trautmann, S.A., Erhard, P., Fehr, T., Herrmann, M., & Escera, C. (2009). Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing in superior temporal gyrus. Cerebral Cortex, 19(7), 1521-1529.   pdf
   
60. Núñez-Peña, M.I. & Aznar-Casanova, J.A (2009). Mental rotation of mirrored letters: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Brain and Cognition, 69(1), 180-7.   pdf
   
2008
   
59. Díaz, B., Baus, C., Escera, C., Costa, A., Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2008). Brain potentials to native phoneme discrimination reveal the origin of individual differences in learning the sounds of a second language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(42), 16083-8.   pdf
   
58. 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.   pdf
   
57. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Garcia-Garcia, M., Escera, C. (2008). Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. European Journal of Neuroscience, 28(6), 1199-1206.   pdf
   
56. Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2008). Effects of sound location on visual task performance and electrophysiological measures of distraction. Neuroreport, 19, 1535-1539.   pdf
   
55. Núñez-Peña, M.I. (2008). Effects of training on the arithmetic problem-size effect: an event-related potential study. Experimental Brain Research, 190, 105-110.   pdf
   
54. Cortiñas, 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, 253-260.   pdf
   
53. SanMiguel, I., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2008). More working memory load equals less distraction: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from an auditory-visual distraction paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(7), 1131-1145.   pdf
   
52. Domínguez-Borràs, J., Garcia-Garcia, M. & Escera, C. (2008). Negative emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing. Neuroreport, 19, 503-507   pdf
   
51. Vázquez-Marrufo, M., González-Rosa, J.J., Vaquero, E., Duque, P., Escera, C. , Borges, M., Izquierdo, G., & Gómez, C.M. (2008). Abnormal ERPs and high frequency bands power in multiple sclerosis. International Journal of Neuroscience, 118, 27–38.   pdf
   
50. Parmentier, F., Elford, G., Escera, C., Andrés, P. & SanMiguel, I. (2008). The cognitive locus of auditory distraction by acoustic novelty in the cross-modal oddball task. Cognition, 106, 402-432.   pdf
   
2007
   
49. Escera, C. (2007). The mismatch negativity (MMN) thirty years later: How far have we come? Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 129-132.   pdf
   
48. Escera, C. & Corral, MJ. (2007). Role of mismatch negativity and novelty-P3 in involuntary auditory attention. Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 251-264.   pdf
   
47. 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.   pdf
     

46. Nuñez-Peña, M.I. & Escera, C. (2007). Effects of rule violation on arithmetical sequence processing. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64, 165-173.

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45. Marco, J., Ruffini, G., Polo, M.D., Gual, A., Escera, C. & Grau, C. (2007). Mismatch negativity impairment associated with alcohol consumption in chronic alcoholics: A scalp current density study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 65, 51-57.

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2006
   

44. Andrés, P., Parmentier, F.B.R. & Escera, C. (2006). The effect of age on the involuntary capture of attention by irrelevant sounds: a test of the frontal hypothesis of aging. Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychologia, 44, 2564-2568.

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43. Barceló, F., Escera, C., Corral, M.J. & Periañez, J.A. (2006). Task switching and novelty processing activate a common neural network for cognitive control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1734-1738.   pdf
     
42. Corbera, S., Escera, C. & Artigas, J. (2006). Impaired duration mismatch negativity in developmental dyslexia. Neuroreport, 17, 1051-1055.   pdf
     

41. Nuñez-Peña, M.I., Cortiñas, M. & Escera, C. (2006). Problem size effect and processing strategies in mental arithmetics. Neuroreport, 17(4), 357-60.

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2005
   
40. Corbera, S., Corral, M.J., Escera, C. & Idiazábal, M.A. (2005). Abnormal speech sound representation in persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology, 65, 1246-1252.   pdf
     
39. Carral, V., Huotilainen, M., Rusuuvirta, T., Fellman, V., Näätänen, R. & Escera, C. (2005). A kind of auditory “primitive” intelligence already present at birth. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21, 3201-3204.   pdf
     
38. Nuñez-Peña, M.I., Aznar, 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.   pdf
     
37. Carral, V., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2005). Auditory event-related potentials as a function of abstract change magnitude. Neuroreport, 16, 301-305.   pdf
     
36. Núñez-Peña, M.I. y Honrubia-Serrano, M.L. (2005). N400 and category-exemplar associative strength. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 56, 45-54 .   pdf
     
35. Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Escera, C., Hämäläinen, M., Huotilainen, M., Häyrinen, T., Oksanen, H., Näätänen, R., von Wendt, L., & Alho, K. (2005). Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced distractibility in ADHD children. Neuroscience Letters, 374, 212-217.   pdf
     
34. Núñez-Peña, M.I. Honrubia-Serrano, M.L., & Escera, C. (2005). Problem size effect in additions and substractions: An event-related potencial study. Neuroscience Letters, 373, 21-25.   pdf
     
2004
   
33. Núñez-Peña, M.I. & Honrubia-Serrano, M.L. (2004). P600 related to rule violation in an arithmetic task. Cognitive Brain Research, 18, 130-141.   pdf
     
32. Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Alho, K., Escera, C. & Näätänen, R. (2004). Effects of auditory distraction on electrophysiological brain activity and performance in children aged 8–14 years. Psychophysiology, 41, 30-36.   pdf
     
2003
   
31. 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.   pdf
     
30. Yago, E., Escera, C., Alho, K., Giard, M.H. & Serra-Grabulosa, J.M. (2003). Cerebral spatio-temporal dynamics of novelty processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 383-390.   pdf
     
29. Polo, M.D., Escera, C., Yago, E., Alho, K., Gual, A., & Grau, C. (2003). Electrophysiological evidence of abnormal activation of the cerebral network of involuntary attention in alcoholism. Clinical Neurophysiology, 114, 134-136.   pdf
     
28. Atienza, M., Cantero, J.L., Grau, C., Gómez, C., Domínguez-Marín, E. & Escera, C. (2003). Effects of temporal encoding on auditory object formation: a mismatch negativity study. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 359-371.   pdf
     
2002
   
27. Escera, C., Corral, M.J. & Yago, E. (2002). An electrophysiological and behavioral investigation of involuntary attention towards auditory frequency, duration and intensity changes. Cognitive Brain Research, 14, 325-332.   pdf
     
26. Polo, M.D., Newton, P., Rogers, D., Escera, C. & Butler, S.R. (2002). ERP and behavioural indices of long-term preattentive and attentive deficits after closed head injury. Neuropsychologia, 40, 2350-2359.   pdf
     
2001
   
25. Escera, C., Yago, E. & Alho, K. (2001). Electrical responses reveal the temporal dynamics of brain events during involuntary attention switching. European Journal of Neuroscience, 14, 877-883.   pdf
     
24. 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.   pdf
     
23. Yago, E., Escera, C., Alho, K. & Giard, M.H. (2001). Cerebral mechanisms underlying orienting of attention towards auditory frequency changes. NeuroReport, 12, 2583.2587.   pdf
     
22. Atienza, M., Cantero, J.L. & Escera, C. (2001). Auditory information processing during human sleep as revealed by event-related brain potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112, 2031-2045.   pdf
     
21. Gumenyuk, V., Korzyukov, O., Alho, K., Escera, C., Schröger, E., Ilmoniemi, R.J. & Näätänen, R. (2001). Brain activity indices of distractibility in healthy children of school age. Neuroscience Letters, 314, 147-150.   pdf
     
20. Novitski, N., Alho, K., Korzyukov, O., Carlson, S., Martinkauppi, S., Escera, C., Rinne, T., Aronen, H.J., Näätänen, R. (2001). Effects of acoustic noise of functional magnetic resonance imaging on the processing of auditory stimuli and change as reflected by event-related brain potentials. Neuroimage, 14, 244-251.   pdf
     
19. Grau, C., Polo, M.D., Yago, E., Gual, A. & Escera, C., (2001). Shorter duration of auditory sensory memory in chronic alcoholics. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112, 728-731.   pdf
     
18. Serra, J.M., Grau, C., Escera, C. & Sánchez-Turet, M. (2001). The H1-receptor antagonist dextro-Chlorpheniramine impairs selective auditory attention in the absence of subjective awareness of this impairment. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 21, 599-602.   pdf
     
17. Zgorzalewicz, M., Galas-Zgorzalewicz, B. & Nowak, R. (2001). Analysis of the measurement methods of endogenous, cognitive P300 potential in school children and adolescents. Folia Neurophatologica, 39, 3-8    
     
2000
   
16. Escera, C., Alho, K., Schröger, E. & Winkler, I. (2000). Iinvoluntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentials. Audiology & Neuro-Otology, 5, 151-166.   pdf
     
15. Escera, C., Yago, E., Polo, M.D. & Grau, C. (2000). The individual replicability of mismatch negativity at short and long inter-stimulus intervals. Clinical Neurophysiology, 111, 546-551.   pdf
     
14. Näätänen, R. & Escera, C. (2000). Mismatch negativity (MMN): Clinical and other applications. Audiology & Neuro-Otology, 5, 105-110.   pdf
     
13. Amenedo, E. & Escera, C. (2000). The accuracy of sound duration representation in the human brain determines the accuracy of behavioural perception. European Journal of Neuroscience, 12, 2570-2574.   pdf
     

12. Ahveninen, J., Escera, C., Polo, M.D., Grau, C. & Jääskeläinen, I (2000). Acute and chronic effects of alcohol on pre-attentive auditory processing. Audiology & Neuro-Otology, 5, 303-311.

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1999
   
11. Polo, M.d., Escera, C., Gual, C. & Grau, C. (1999). Mismatch negativity and auditory sensory memory in chronic alcoholics. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 23, 1744-1750.   pdf
     
10. Kaipio, M.L., Alho, K., Winkler, I, Escera, C., Surma-aho, O. & Näätänen, R. (1999). Event-related potentials reveal covert distractibility in closed head injuries. NeuroReport. 10, 2125-2129.   pdf
     
1998
   
9. Escera, C., Alho, K., Winkler, I. & Näätänen, R. (1998). Neural mechanisms of involuntary attention to acoustic novelty and change. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10(5), 590-604.   pdf
     
8. Grau, C., Escera, C., Yago, E. & Polo, M.D. (1998). Mismatch Negativity and auditory sensory memory evaluation: A new faster paradigm. NeuroReport, 9, 2451-2456.   pdf
     
7. Alho, K., Winkler, I., Escera, C., Huotilainen, M., Virtanen, J., Jääskeläinen, I., Pekkonen, E. & Ilmoniemi, R. (1998). Processing of novel sounds and frequency changes in the human auditory cortex: Magnetoencephalographic recordings. Psychophysiology, 35, 211-224.   pdf
     
6. Huotilainen, M., Winkler, I., Alho, K., Escera, C., Virtanen, J., Jääskeläinen, I., Pekkonen, E., Ilmoniemi, R. & Näätänen, R. (1998). Combined mapping of human auditory EEG and MEG responses. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 108, 370-379.   pdf
     
1997
   
5. Escera, C. (1997). Nuevas aplicaciones clínicas de los potenciales evocados: Mismatch Negativity. Medicina Clínica, 108, 701-708.   pdf
     
4. Alho, K., Escera, C., Díaz, R., Yago, E. & Serra, J.M. (1997). Effects of involuntary auditory attention on visual task performance and brain activity. NeuroReport, 8, 3233-3237.   pdf
     
1996
   
3. Escera, C. & Grau, C. (1996). Short-term replicability of the mismatch negativity. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 100, 549-554.   pdf
     
2. Serra, J.M., Escera, C., Sánchez-Turet, M., Sánchez-Sastre, J. & Grau, C. (1996). The H1-receptor antagonist chlorpheniramine decreases the ending phase of the mismatch negativity of the human auditory event-related potentials. Neuroscience Letters, 203, 77-80.   pdf
     
1. Jääskeläinen, I., Alho, K., Escera, C., Winkler, I., Sillanaukee, P. & Näätänen, R. (1996). Effects of ethanol and auditory distraction on forced choice reaction time. Alcohol, 13, 153-156.   pdf

 


BOOKS
4. Solanas, A., Salafranca, L., Fauquet, J. & Núñez, M.I. (2004). Estadística descriptiva en ciencias del comportamiento. Madrid: Thomson & Learning.    
     

3. Yago, E., Tervaniemi, M. & Escera, C. (Eds.) (2000). Abstract book of the Second International Congress on Mismatch Negativity and its Clinical Applications. Barcelona: Neurodynamics Laboratory.

   
     
2. Salafranca, Ll., Solanas, A., Núñez, M.I., Jiménez, M., Miralles, D. & Serra, G. (2000). Estadística aplicada con SPSS y Statgraphics. Barcelona: Edicions de la Universidad de Barcelona.    
     
1. Tervaniemi, M. & Escera, C. (Eds.) (1998). Abstracts of the First International Congress on Mismatch Negativity and its Clinical Applications. Helsinki: Multiprint.    



BOOK CHAPTERS
10. Domínguez-Borràs, J. & Escera, C. (2008). Attentional bias towards threatening emotional face expressions. In: Emotional face comprehension. Neuropsychological perspectives. Ed: Michela Balconi. New York, Nova Science Publishers, in press.    
     
9. Escera, C. & Corral, M.J. (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 (pp. 63-76). Oldenburg: Bibliotheks-und Informationsystem der Universität Oldenburg.   pdf
     

8. Alho, K., Escera, C. & Schröger, E. (2003). Event-related brain potential indices of involuntary attention to auditory stimulus changes. En J. Polich (Ed.), Detection of change: event-related potential and fMRI findings (23-40). Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

   
     
7. Corral MJ., 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: Pabst.    
     
6. Yago E., Corral MJ. & 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: Pabst.  
     

5. Escera, C. (2001). Trastornos de la audición. En M.A. Simón & E. Amenedo (Eds.), Manual de psicofisiología clínica (pp. 217-250). Madrid: Pirámide.

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4. Díaz, R., Polo, M.D., Escera, C., Sánchez-Turet, M. & Grau, C. (1999). Marcadores neurogenéticos de riesgo para el alcoholismo crónico. En M. Sánchez-Turet (Ed.), Enfermedades y problemas relacionados con el alcohol (pp. 63-111). Barcelona: Espaxs.    
     
3. Yago, E. & Escera, C. (1998). P3a: Una señal electrofisiológica de la captura atencional. En J. Botella & V. Ponsoda (Eds.), La atención: una aproximación multidisciplinar (pp. 17-26). Valencia: Promolibro.    
     
2. Zgorzalewicz, M, Nowak, R., Galas-Zgorzalewicz, B. (1998). Neurophysiological study in children and adolescents with epilepsy receiving lamotrigine. In J. Majkowski, K. Owczarek & P. Zwolinski (Eds.), New Trends in Epileptology (pp. 123-127). Bologna: Monduzzi Editore.    

 

   
1. Zgorzalewicz, M, Nowak, R., Galas-Zgorzalewicz, B. (1998). Auditory event-related potentials in epileptic children and adolescents. In Milivoj Velickovic Perat (Ed.), New developments in child neurology (pp. 515-523). Bologna: Monduzzi Editore.    



SPANISH JOURNALS
12. Núñez-Peña, M.I. y Aznar-Casanova, J.A (2009). Rotación mental: Cómo la mente rota las imágenes hasta colocarlas en su posición normal. Ciencia Cognitiva: Revista electrónica de divulgación, 3(2), 58-61.   pdf
     
11. Escera, C. (2004). ¿Y existe pues la Neurociencia Cognitiva? Cognitiva, 16, 251-255.   pdf
     
10. Escera, C. (2004). Aproximación histórica y conceptual a la Neurociencia Cognitiva. Cognitiva, 16, 141-161.   pdf
     
9. Nuñez, M.I., Corral, M.J. & Escera, C. (2004). Potenciales evocados cerebrales en el contexto de la investigación psicológica: una actualización. Anuario de Psicología, 35, 3-21.   pdf
     
8. Solanas, A., Díaz, A., Fauquet, J., Núñez, M.I. & Salafranca, Ll. (2002). La enseñanza de la Estadística en las Ciencias del Comportamiento a inicios del siglo XXI. Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, 4, 157-183.    
     
7. Escera, C. (2002). Evaluación de disfunciones neurocognitivas con potenciales evocados. Revista de Psiquiatría, 29, 362-373.   pdf
     
6. Serra-Grabulosa, J.M., Sánchez-Turet, M., Grau, C. & Escera, C. (2002). El potencial P300 en la evaluación de los efectos secundarios de la dexclorfeniramina. Revista de Neurología, 35, 306-310.   pdf
     
5. Escera, C. (1997). Potencial de disparidad (mismatch negativity): Características y aplicaciones. Anuario de Psicología, 72, 63-80.   pdf
     
4. Escera, C. (1997). Mecanismos cerebrales de la atención involuntaria: potencial de disparidad (MMN), N1 y P3a. Psicothema, 9, 565-578.    
     
3.Escera, C. (1996). El sistema atencional humano en audición: estudio con potenciales evocados. Cognitiva, 8, 169-201.    
     
2. Polo, M.D., Díaz, R., Escera, C., Sánchez-Turet, M. & Grau, C. (1995). Caracterización del alcoholismo familiar. Anuario de Psicología, 66, 37-63.   pdf
     
1. Gómez, C., Escera, C., Cilveti, R., Díaz, R. & Portavella, M. (1992). Localización neuroeléctrica de procesos cognitivos. Anuario de Psicología, 54, 77-96.   pdf