Dr. Adolfo García participated as a guest lecturer in the Landsweite Tagung 2019, organized by the Gartendstat Schule. The event was a fruitful opportunity to exchange ideas in the intersection between the neurosciences of bilingualism and the teaching of foreign languages.
Dr. Adolfo M. García, Scientific Director of the LPEN (INCYT-INECO), has completed a new book titled The Neurocognition of Translation and Interpreting. The volume, published by John Benjamins, offers an unprecedented neuroscientific outlook on translation and interpreting, two essential activities in the globalized multilingual societies of our time. 
For details, check out the following link: https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.147.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients present several alterations related to sensing of bodily signals. However, no specific neurocognitive impairment has yet been proposed as a core deficit underlying such symptoms. We aimed to determine whether MS patients present changes in interoception-that is, the monitoring of autonomic bodily information-a process that might be related to various bodily dysfunctions. We performed two studies in 34 relapsing-remitting, early- stage MS patients and 46 controls matched for gender, age, and education. In Study 1, we
evaluated the heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP), a cortical signature of interoception, via a 128-channel EEG system during a heartbeat detection task including an exteroceptive and an interoceptive condition. Then, we obtained whole-brain MRI recordings. In Study 2, participants underwent fMRI recordings during two resting-state conditions: mind wandering and interoception. In Study 1, controls exhibited greater HEP modulation during the interoceptive condition than the exteroceptive one, but no systematic differences between conditions emerged
in MS patients. Patients presented atrophy in the left insula, the posterior part of the right insula, and the right anterior cingulate cortex, with abnormal associations between neurophysiological and neuroanatomical patterns. In Study 2, controls showed higher functional connectivity and degree for the interoceptive state compared with mind wandering; however, this pattern was absent in patients, who nonetheless presented greater connectivity and degree than controls during mind wandering. MS patients were characterized by atypical multimodal brain signatures of
interoception. This finding opens a new agenda to examine the role of inner-signal monitoring in the body symptomatology of MS.
Dr. Adolfo M. García was incorporated into the Editorial Board (Editorial Board) of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice. This magazine, published by the prestigious publisher Taylor & Francis, is the leading publication worldwide in its area of expertise.
Link: https://bit.ly/2N0veFx
Congratulations on this international recognition!
On February 7, Dr. Adolfo M. García participated in the Cycle of Talks of the University of Valle (Cali, Colombia) with the conference «From neurolinguistics to language teaching». The presentation favored the exchange of ideas between teachers and researchers in pursuit of didactic and pedagogical developments for literacy and foreign language teaching.
Dr. Ibáñez has been invited to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology (IMA), belonging to the prestigious Wiley Publishing House (USA). IMA promotes the exchange of rigorous and scientific ideas about relevant results in the field of imaging and neuroimaging, including image physics and computer science.
Congratulations on this international recognition!
We proudly share the football story «De guapos y gambetas», with which Dr. Lucas Sedeño, General Director of the LPEN, won the «Contame tu cuento» award, from Diario Olé.
The National Congress of Chile, the Government of Chile and the Chilean Academy of Sciences have invited Dr Agustín Ibáñez to address at the Future Congress an event that brings together scientists, Nobel Prize winners, thinkers, artists, opinion leaders and citizens to discuss and debate around cutting-edge research and innovative ideas that will impact the future of humanity. Dr Ibáñez has been invited to lecture from the perspective of neuroscience on the changes in the way we interact and connect with the contemporary world, to answer the question of whether technology will allow us to relate in a deeper way or finally convert us in more loners. follow the event via streaming here
