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Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group<\/p>\n<\/div>

The Brainlab, led by Carles Escera, belongs to the Institute of\u00a0Neurosciences<\/span><\/a> of the University of Barcelona<\/a> and the Institut de\u00a0Recerca Sant Joan de D\u00e9u<\/span><\/a>. We are located<\/a> at the Faculty of\u00a0Psychology<\/a>, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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We are a small, multinational, interdisciplinary group, including psychologists, biologists, engineers, and physicists. We seek to unravel the brain mechanisms of cognitive functions, including attention, auditory and speech perception, motor-sensory interactions, and executive control. Also, we are interested in emotional and musical processing, and in cognitive dysfunction in a broad spectrum of neurological, neurodevelopment and mental disorders.<\/p>\n

To achieve our goals, we combine the recording of the human electroencephalogram (EEG) to analyze evoked and event-related brain potentials (such as the Frequency-Following Response \u2013 FFR, the Middle Latency Response \u2013MLR, or the Mismatch Negativity \u2013MMN) and oscillatory brain activity, with magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and neurogenetic analysis. Part of our research is conducted in collaboration with labs located worldwide, such as the University of Helsinki and University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 (Finland), the Fukushima Medical University (Japan), the University of Leipzig (Germany) and the University of Salamanca (Spain). We are committed to higher-education training, at Master (Neuroscience and Research in and Behavior and Cognition<\/a> programs) and PhD (Biomedicine\/Neurosciences<\/a>) levels.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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