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Last Monday\u00a0December\u00a016th, 2019, at 10:00 at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona,\u00a0Vittoria Spinosa\u00a0defended her thesis entitled Motor-auditory interaction: a window towards associative and predictive processing<\/strong><\/em>. The thesis was jointly supervised by Dr. Iria SanMiguel and Dr. Carles Escera, and carried out in part in collaboration with Dr. J\u00e1nos Horv\u00e1ath, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology,\u00a0Hungarian Academy of Sciences\u00a0(Hungary).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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This thesis was carried out under the Biomedicine PhD Program of the University of Barcelona, and was submitted as a compendium of two studies:<\/p>\n

Spinosa, V., & SanMiguel, I. (2019). Disentangling expectation match- and mismatch-related effects to sound and silence: an ERP study. In preparation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Spinosa, V., Neszm\u00e9lyi, B., Horv\u00e1th, J., SanMiguel, I. (2019). An auditory ERP study tracking the building-up of the action-effect association. In preparation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Vittoria during her presentation<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Vittoria answering questions during the discussion<\/p>\n<\/div>

After the defense and\u00a0After the defense and a thoughtful discussion given by the candidate, now Dr. Vittoria Spinosa, and the panel members (Chair: Prof. Francisco Barcel\u00f3, University of Balearic Islands, Spain; Dr. Mari Tervaniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland; Dr. Jordi Costa-Faidella, University of Barcelona), the thesis was given the highest grade at our university: Excel.lent Cum Laude.<\/p>\n

RECEIVING the degree<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Happy Vittoria and supervisors after the defense<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The cellebrations afterwards<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phd-defenses"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCongratulations to Vittoria Spinosa for her recent PhD degree - Brainlab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/brainlab\/congratulations-to-vittoria-spinosa-for-her-recent-phd-degree\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congratulations to Vittoria Spinosa for her recent PhD degree - 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