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  • Bringing neuroscience to the classroom

    On Thursday 15th a group of twenty high school students from Institut Rubió i Ors (Hospitalet de Llobregat) visited our lab, the Cognition and Brain Plasticity group at IDIBELL, to take part in the workshop  "The brain made of plasticine",...

  • 1st day of Bridging Attention & Prediction

    The first day of Bridging Attention & Prediction took place last 6th February at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, in Barcelona. We had the opportunity to attend great talks given by Fabrizio Doricchi, Falk Huettig, Sonja Kotz, Jenny Saffran and...

  • Retreat summary

    Last January the members of the Brain Plasticity and Cognition Unit gathered for two days at a house in a beautiful location to discuss the different topics we are working on. PhD candidates, Postdoc researchers, Masters students and PIs...

  • Cognition and Brain Plasticity Retreat 2018

    DATE: 18-19 January 2018 LOCATION: Can Grau de Vallcàrquera, El Figaró, Barcelona PURPOSE RETREAT: Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group PRESENTERS: Members of the group   SCHEDULE January 18th 10.00 -...

  • TuningLang Retreat 2017

    DATE: 14 novembre 2017 LOCATION: Canyet, Barcelona PURPOSE RETREAT: Bridging the diferent lines of research within the TuningLang project: data presentation and discussion of findings PRESENTERS: Members of the ‘Brain mechanisms of...

  • Ignasi Sols Balcells – Thesis defense

    Ignasi Sols finished his degree in Biochemistry in 2011 at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 2012, he moved to the Neuroscience Institute of Alicante (CSIC-UMH), where he investigated the development of the mouse neocortex in the...

  • Miguel Ángel Santos – Thesis defense

    Miguel Angel Santos is a neurologist clinical research fellow who joined the Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit at Bellvitge in 2017. His research focuses on studying the cognitive mechanisms and neuroanatomy underlying language and praxis...

  • Joanna Sierpowska – Thesis defense

    Joanna graduated in Psychology at the University of Wroclaw (Poland) in 2009. From the early beginnings of her studies she was interested in how the neurological disorders may impact persons’ cognitive function and wellbeing, and how, at the same...