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Conference in Tenerife

Dr. Adolfo García, Scientific Director of LPEN (INCYT and INECO Foundation), was invited to participate in the Colloquium Cycle of the Institute of Neurosciences at the University of La Laguna. On February 13, he will give the lecture «Extreme Bilingualism: What is so special about the brain of simultaneous interpreters?»   For more information, you […]

The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review

Arias J, Williams C, Raghvani R, Aghajani M, Baez S, Belzung C, Booij L, Busatto G, Chiarella J, Fu C, Ibanez A, Liddell B, Lowe L, Penninx B, Rosa P, Kemp A. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020, 199-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.006.  Presentamos una síntesis interdisciplinaria de la neurociencia de la tristeza, efectuada para el Human Affectome Project, en la […]

Adolfo García in The Night of Ideas 2020

Dr. Adolfo García, Scientific Director of LPEN (INCYT and INECO Foundation), will be one of the speakers in the 2020 edition of The Night of Ideas. This worldwide dissemination event, promoted by the Ministry of Europe and International Relations of France, will take place between January 29 and February 1 in the cities of Ostende […]

The development of social comparisons and sharing behavior across 12 countries

Samek A, Cowell JM, Cappelen AW, Cheng Y, Contreras-Ibáñez C, Gomez-Sicard N, Gonzalez-Gadea ML, Huepe D, Ibáñez A, Lee K, Malcolm-Smith S, Salas N, Selcuk B, Tungodden B, Wong A, Zhou X, Decety J J Exp Child Psychol. 2020;192:104778. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104778   Nuestro estudio internacional en 12 países muestra que los niños (de 3 a 12 […]

Task-specific signatures in the expert brain: Differential correlates of translation and reading in professional interpreters

Dottori M, Hesse E, Santilli M, Vilas M, Martorell Caro M, Fraiman D, Sedeño L, Ibáñez A & García AM (2020). NeuroImage 209, 116519. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116519   En este estudio investigamos correlatos electrofisiológicos del procesamiento léxico experto. Para ello, medimos modulaciones cerebrales oscilatorias en intérpretes simultáneos durante tareas de lectura y traducción en su lengua nativa (L1) […]

The human factor – La Nación

Agustín Ibañez, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, comments that social networks exponentially escalate certain distorted beliefs and biases against different groups or minorities. And it details a series of works that suggest that false information expands much faster, lasts much longer and has more impact than the truth. Read the full […]

Evaluating the reliability of neurocognitive biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases across countries: a machine-learning approach

M. Belen Bachlia, Lucas Sedeño, Jeremi K. Ochab, Olivier Piguete, Fiona Kumfore, Pablo Reyesg, Teresa Torralva, María Roca, Juan Felipe Cardona, Cecilia Gonzalez Campo, Eduar Herrera, Andrea Slachevsky, Diana Matallana, Facundo Manes, Adolfo M. García, Agustín Ibáñez, and Dante R. Chialvoa. Neuroimage. 2019 Dec 10:116456. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116456 En este estudio utilizamos herramientas de marchine-learning para […]