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Experimento de memoria secuencial con registro de EEG y EyeTracking ¡Necesitamos participantes para un experimento! Nuestro objetivo es estudiar la memoria secuencial para estímulos auditivos bajo ciertas condiciones. Te pediremos que realices una tarea de memoria auditiva muy sencilla frente a una pantalla mientras registramos la dilatación de tu pupila con un EyeTracker y tu actividad cerebral con un electroencefalograma […]
26/01/2021
¡Comienza una nueva encuesta! Encuesta sobre preferencias musicales. El objetivo de esta encuesta es conocer las preferencias musicales de la población de entre 18 y 35 años de edad. Los resultados de este estudio serán analizados por los miembros del proyecto interdisciplinar Artsoundscapes, dirigido por la Dra. Margarita Díaz-Andreu y financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación. Esta información será […]
11/01/2021
The paper entitled Psychology meets archaeology: psychoarchaeoacoustics for understanding ancient minds and their relation to the sacred, by Valenzuela, Díaz-Andreu, and Escera, has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. This paper is the first outcome of our collaboration with archaeologist Prof. Margarita Díaz-Andreu, ICREA Research Professor at our University (Department of History and Archaeology), in the frame of […]
22/12/2020
Experimento sobre asociación genética en la codificación cerebral del sonido Probablemente te has dado cuenta de que algunas personas tienen más facilidades que otras para aprender y reproducir nuevos idiomas, o que algunos tienen mejor “oído musical” que otros. Estas diferencias entre personas se pueden deber a muchos factores, entre ellos, los factores genéticos. Esto justamente estamos investigando en el […]
27/10/2020
Driven by the necessity to resume experimental, but critically clinical EEG activities after the global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an international consortium of over 30 laboratories run a survey on the impact of the pandemic on their routine EEG activities, and the procedures and precautions undertaken to resume their EEG work. The outcome of this work was the paper […]
30/09/2020
Midiendo las emociones evocadas por la acústica de ambientes sonoros especiales ¿Hasta qué punto la música se escribe para el espacio y el contexto donde va a ser interpretada? ¿Alguna vez has pensado que los compositores escriben música aprovechando la acústica de determinados espacios? Mediante este experimento estudiamos si esta relación canción-lugar tiene algún efecto en las emociones evocadas por […]
28/09/2020
The University of Barcelona has launched the Master+UB Programme to motivate scientific careers by carrying out a Master’s degree within a research group. The Brainlab has secured one of such fellowships linked to the Master in Research in Behavior and Cognition. If you are interested, make sure you fulfill the requirements and contact us at cescera@ub.edu (subject: Master+UB). Deadline: June […]
23/05/2020
Experimento sobre predicción sensorial de sonidos autogenerados ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado por qué no puedes hacerte cosquillas a ti mismo? ¿O por qué algunas personas se sienten confusas cuando una frase no termina cómo ellos patata? ¡Pues el BrainLab investiga sobre eso, y necesitamos voluntarios para un experimento! Nuestro objetivo es entender qué sucede en el cerebro al procesar un […]
10/10/2019
Last August 2019, two papers authored by the Brainlab were published in the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience: In the paper: Escera, C. and Gorina-Careta, N. (2019). Auditory brainstem responses. In: Jaeger D., Jung R. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience: SpringerReference. Springer Science+Business Media, part of Springer Nature 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_423-2, que present a short description of the classical […]
10/09/2019
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Amineh Koravand (University of Ottawa, Canada) for her six months visit at our Brainlab. Dr Amineh Koravand is an associate professor and neuro-audiologist in the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology program at the University of Ottawa. Prof. Koravand’s research deals with the relationship between the peripheral and central auditory systems in children. Her goal is […]
10/09/2019
The Brainlab is seeking for a highly motivated Early Stage Resarcher (ESR; PhD student) to join our research group and the project entitled The Frequency-Following Response (FFR) in newborns and its role as a potential biomarker for neurocognitive development, (PGC2018-094765-B-I00), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science. The positions is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science through the program “Contratos para […]
04/06/2019
The Brainlab is seeking for a highly motivated Early Stage Resarcher (ESR; PhD student) to join our research group and the ERC Advanced Grant project ARTSOUNDSCAPES: The The sound of special places: exploring rock art soundscapes and the sacred (awarded to Prof. Margarita Díaz-Andreu, panel SH6). In this fascinating project, we aimed at demonstrating that soundscapes recorded from archeological rock-art sites […]
04/06/2019
The Brainlab is seeking for a highly motivated and skilled laboratory technician to join our research group and to develop cutting-edge methodologies to analyze the EEG signal. The position is supported by the Maria de Maeztu Excellence Programme awarded to the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, to which the Brainlab belongs. Through traditional approaches, such as the […]
04/06/2019
You can now apply for an INPhINIT doctoral fellowship! The Institute of Neurosciences is a Maria de Maeztu excellence center and you can join us both under the Incoming and Retaining modalities. You can find our project for the Incoming modality in the finder searching by project title: “Temporal coding in the neural representation of auditory imagery“ +Info: https://obrasociallacaixa.org/…/inphi…/programme-description
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