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Short-term replicability of the mismatch negativityC Escera
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 100:549-54. 1996..This suggests that the number of summations should be increased in order to improve the clinical usefulness of the MMN...
Attention capture by auditory significant stimuli: semantic analysis follows attention switchingCarles Escera
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 18:2408-12. 2003....
Electrical responses reveal the temporal dynamics of brain events during involuntary attention switchingC Escera
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall Hebron 171, E 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 14:877-83. 2001....
An electrophysiological and behavioral investigation of involuntary attention towards auditory frequency, duration and intensity changesCarles Escera
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d Hebron 171, 08035, Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 14:325-32. 2002....
Involuntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentialsC Escera
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Spain
Audiol Neurootol 5:151-66. 2000....
The individual replicability of mismatch negativity at short and long inter-stimulus intervalsC Escera
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Clin Neurophysiol 111:546-51. 2000....
Neural mechanisms of involuntary attention to acoustic novelty and changeC Escera
University of Barcelona, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Barcelona 08035, ES
J Cogn Neurosci 10:590-604. 1998..The observed differential distracting effects by slightly deviant tones and widely deviant novel sounds support the notion of two separate mechanisms of involuntary attention...
Effects of sound location on visual task performance and electrophysiological measures of distractionMaria Jose Corral
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neuroreport 19:1535-9. 2008..This supports the assumption that in the behavioral cost observed in the audio-visual distraction paradigm a spatial shift of attention is involved...
When loading working memory reduces distraction: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from an auditory-visual distraction paradigmIria SanMiguel
University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
J Cogn Neurosci 20:1131-45. 2008..Moreover, as these results contradict predictions of the load theory of selective attention and cognitive control, it is suggested that the WM load effects on distraction depend on the nature of the distractor-target relationships...
Reduced novelty-P3 associated with increased behavioral distractibility in schizophreniaMiriam Cortiñas
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d Hebron 171, E 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biol Psychol 78:253-60. 2008....
Negative emotional context enhances auditory novelty processingJudith Domínguez-Borràs
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neuroreport 19:503-7. 2008..These results demonstrate that the negative emotional context enhances the activation of neural networks in the auditory novelty system, enhancing auditory novelty processing under potentially threatening conditions...
Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence of gender differences in the modulation of distraction by the emotional contextManuel Garcia-Garcia
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biol Psychol 79:307-16. 2008..Novelty-P3 was also modulated by the emotional context for women but not for men. These results reveal stronger novelty processing in women than in men during a threatening situation...
Impaired preparatory re-mapping of stimulus-response associations and rule-implementation in schizophrenic patients--the role for differences in early processingMareike Finke
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biol Psychol 87:358-65. 2011....
Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing: behavioural and electrophysiological evidenceJudith Domínguez-Borràs
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 28:1199-206. 2008..These results provide strong evidence that the emotional context enhances the activation of neural networks in the auditory novelty system, gating acoustic novelty processing under potentially threatening conditions...
Tuning the brain for novelty detection under emotional threat: the role of increasing gamma phase-synchronizationManuel Garcia-Garcia
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neuroimage 49:1038-44. 2010....
Impaired theta phase-resetting underlying auditory N1 suppression in chronic alcoholismLluis Fuentemilla
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neuroreport 20:337-42. 2009..The present findings suggest that chronic alcoholism alters neural oscillatory synchrony dynamics at very early stages of information processing...
Phase re-setting of gamma neural oscillations during novelty processing in an appetitive contextJudith Domínguez-Borràs
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biol Psychol 89:545-52. 2012....
Individual differences in sequence learning and auditory pattern sensitivity as revealed with evoked potentialsElisabet Tubau
Department of Basic Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, University of Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 26:261-4. 2007..Results confirmed our prediction: explicit learners showed larger amplitude of the MMN to the violation of the auditory rhythm, suggesting new theoretical implications to account for individual differences in sequential action control...
Emotional context enhances auditory novelty processing in superior temporal gyrusJudith Domínguez-Borràs
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d Hebron 171, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Cereb Cortex 19:1521-9. 2009..These results demonstrate that the emotional context modulates the excitability of auditory and possibly multimodal novelty cerebral regions, enhancing acoustic novelty processing in a potentially harming environment...
Early processing of pitch in the human auditory systemKimmo Alho
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 36:2972-8. 2012..This effect of pitch, not seen for the pure tones, might indicate that the exact location of the Nb generator source in the auditory cortex depends on the missing-fundamental pitch of the eliciting tone...
Abnormal speech sound representation in persistent developmental stutteringSilvia Corbera
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neurology 65:1246-52. 2005..To determine whether adults with persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) have auditory perceptual deficits...
Interactions between "what" and "when" in the auditory system: temporal predictability enhances repetition suppressionJordi Costa-Faidella
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
J Neurosci 31:18590-7. 2011..This outcome calls for attention to stimulation timing in future experiments regarding sensory memory trace formation in AEP measures and stimulus probability encoding in animal models...
Auditory event-related potentials as a function of abstract change magnitudeVanessa Carral
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, P. Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neuroreport 16:301-5. 2005..These results suggest that mismatch negativity detects violations of abstract rules, and the amount of violation is analyzed in subsequent stages of auditory processing...
Electrophysiological evidence of abnormal activation of the cerebral network of involuntary attention in alcoholismMaria Dolores Polo
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P. Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Neurophysiol 114:134-46. 2003....
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the auditory novelty-P3 event-related brain potentialElena Yago
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:383-90. 2003..Taken together, these results provide the first evidence of the cerebral spatio-temporal dynamics underlying novelty processing...
Impaired duration mismatch negativity in developmental dyslexiaSilvia Corbera
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neuroreport 17:1051-5. 2006..Our results suggest a deficit in low-level auditory discrimination in dyslexic children, in particular when detecting stimulus duration, and support the rapid auditory processing theory of dyslexia...
Is fast auditory change detection feature specific? An electrophysiological study in humansSumie Leung
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Psychophysiology 49:933-42. 2012..The different levels of information being encoded in two separate event-related potential time ranges support the notion of a hierarchical organization of auditory deviance detection...
Fast detection of unexpected sound intensity decrements as revealed by human evoked potentialsHeike Althen
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
PLoS ONE 6:e28522. 2011..This finding, together with the studies about frequency and location changes, suggests that the early automatic detection of deviant sounds in an oddball paradigm is a general property of the auditory system...
Ultrafast tracking of sound location changes as revealed by human auditory evoked potentialsSabine Grimm
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Biol Psychol 89:232-9. 2012..Whereas MMN was not significantly lateralized, the Na effect showed a contralateral dominance. These findings indicate that, also for sound location changes, early detection processes exist upstream of MMN...
Novelty detection in the human auditory brainstemLavinia Slabu
Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior IR3C, and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia Spain
J Neurosci 32:1447-52. 2012..These findings demonstrate that the human auditory brainstem is able to encode regularities in the recent auditory past to detect novel events, and confirm the multiple anatomical and temporal scales of human deviance detection...
Electrophysiological evidence for the hierarchical organization of auditory change detection in the human brainSabine Grimm
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Psychophysiology 48:377-84. 2011....
Multiple time scales of adaptation in the auditory system as revealed by human evoked potentialsJordi Costa-Faidella
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Psychophysiology 48:774-83. 2011..A simple linear model of expectancy accounting for both short- and long-term stimulus history described our results, paralleling the behavior of neurons in the primary auditory cortex...
Detection of simple and pattern regularity violations occurs at different levels of the auditory hierarchyMiriam Cornella
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
PLoS ONE 7:e43604. 2012....
A kind of auditory 'primitive intelligence' already present at birthVanessa Carral
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P. Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 21:3201-4. 2005..This finding suggests the early ontogenetic origin of 'primitive intelligence' in audition that eventually may form a prerequisite for later language acquisition...
An event-related brain potential study of the arithmetic split effectM Isabel Núñez-Peña
Department of Behavioral Sciences Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain
Int J Psychophysiol 64:165-73. 2007..The present results suggest that the centro-parietal LPC can be taken as an index of the split effect and may broaden our knowledge about arithmetical processing strategies...
On the functional significance of Novelty-P3: facilitation by unexpected novel soundsIria SanMiguel
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Biol Psychol 83:143-52. 2010..We suggest that the NP3 is a complex signal that comprises alerting, orienting and executive control processes triggered by the unexpected stimulus...
Activation of brain mechanisms of attention switching as a function of auditory frequency changeE Yago
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P. Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035-Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neuroreport 12:4093-7. 2001..The results indicate that attentional processes in the brain may follow a linear function of activation, contrasting with the well-established logarithmic functions underlying perceptual and psychophysical processes...
Dopamine transporter regulates the enhancement of novelty processing by a negative emotional contextManuel Garcia-Garcia
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neuropsychologia 48:1483-8. 2010..The present results might help to understand the functional implications of dopamine in some neuropsychiatric disorders...
Problem size effect and processing strategies in mental arithmeticMaría Isabel Núñez-Peña
Department of Behavioral Sciences Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neuroreport 17:357-60. 2006..This amplitude modulation was not evident in additions, where direct retrieval strategies are believed to be used. Our results suggest that the problem size effect is related to non-retrieval procedures of calculation...
Auditory sensory memory as indicated by mismatch negativity in chronic alcoholismC Grau
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d Hebron 171, 08035, Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Clin Neurophysiol 112:728-31. 2001..The authors' aim was to determine the integrity of auditory sensory memory as indexed by MMN in chronic alcoholism, when this memory has to be functionally active for a longer period of time...
Effects of dynamic rotation on event-related brain potentialsM I Núñez-Peña
Department of Behavioral Sciences Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 24:307-16. 2005..In summary, the present experiment provides new evidence in support of the idea that the amplitude modulation over the parietal cortex is a psychophysiological marker of the mental rotation process...
The H1-receptor antagonist dextro-chlorpheniramine impairs selective auditory attention in the absence of subjective awareness of this impairmentJ M Serra-Grabulosa
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Spain
J Clin Psychopharmacol 21:599-602. 2001..This lack of conscious awareness of the side effects may lead to situations of risk in tasks for which auditory information is important, because no subjective indicators of attention impairment are available to the subjects...
[The potential P300 in the evaluation of the side effects of dexchlorpheniramine]J M Serra-Grabulosa
Laboratorio de Neuropsicología, Institut d Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Espana
Rev Neurol 35:306-10. 2002..150 minutes after ingestion the potential P300 was recorded using an active oddball paradigm. Likewise, efficiency in detecting target stimuli was also evaluated...
Mismatch negativity impairment associated with alcohol consumption in chronic alcoholics: a scalp current density studyJ Marco Pallares
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d Hebron 171, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Int J Psychophysiol 65:51-7. 2007..The present results suggest a reorganization of the computational neurodynamics of automatic auditory change detection linked to the amount of alcohol consumed in abstinent chronic alcoholics...
The effects of foreknowledge and task-set shifting as mirrored in cue- and target-locked event-related potentialsMareike Finke
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
PLoS ONE 7:e49486. 2012..Advanced preparation may have a stronger influence on behavioral performance and target-locked brain activity than the local effect of repeating or switching the task-set in the current trial...
Problem size effect in additions and subtractions: an event-related potential studyM Isabel Núñez-Peña
Department of Behavioral Sciences Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig Vall d Hebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Neurosci Lett 373:21-5. 2005....
Early change detection in humans as revealed by auditory brainstem and middle-latency evoked potentialsLavinia Slabu
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 32:859-65. 2010..Our results suggest that auditory change detection of frequency information is a multistage process that occurs at the primary auditory cortex and is transmitted to the higher levels of the auditory pathway...
Cerebral mechanisms underlying orienting of attention towards auditory frequency changesE Yago
Neurodynamics Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, P. Vall d'Hebron 171, 08035-Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Neuroreport 12:2583-7. 2001....
The role of the dopamine transporter DAT1 genotype on the neural correlates of cognitive flexibilityM Garcia-Garcia
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior IR3C, University of Barcelona, Spain
Eur J Neurosci 31:754-60. 2010..This distinct stereotypy of cerebral responses reveals different patterns of cognitive control according to the DAT1 gene polymorphism...
Effects of auditory distraction on electrophysiological brain activity and performance in children aged 8-13 yearsValentina Gumenyuk
Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Psychophysiology 41:30-6. 2004..Correlation between the RT increase caused by the distracting novel sounds and the amplitude of the LN elicited by these sounds suggested that the LN is associated with the degree of attention engaged by the distracting sounds...
The cognitive locus of distraction by acoustic novelty in the cross-modal oddball taskFabrice B R Parmentier
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Cognition 106:408-32. 2008..Possible accounts of these shifts are discussed...
Effects of temporal encoding on auditory object formation: a mismatch negativity studyMercedes Atienza
Laboratory of Sleep and Cognition, Seville, Spain
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:359-71. 2003..These results suggest that grouping discrete auditory inputs may introduce changes in the neural representation of the auditory scene by applying rules to sounds spanning larger temporal scales...
ERPs and behavioural indices of long-term preattentive and attentive deficits after closed head injuryM Dolores Polo
Burden Neurological Institute, Frenchay Hospital, BS16 1JB, Bristol, UK
Neuropsychologia 40:2350-9. 2002..These results indicate both preattentive and attentive deficits, which is consistent with the typical diffuse axonal injury (DAI) resulting after CHI...
Task switching and novelty processing activate a common neural network for cognitive controlFrancisco Barcelo
Ed Beatriu de Pinos, University of Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
J Cogn Neurosci 18:1734-48. 2006....
The effect of age on involuntary capture of attention by irrelevant sounds: a test of the frontal hypothesis of agingPilar Andrés
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
Neuropsychologia 44:2564-8. 2006..In F.I.M. Craik & T.A. Salthouse (Eds.) Handbook of aging and cognition (pp. 1-90). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum; West, R. (1996). An application of prefrontal cortex function theory to cognitive aging. Psychological Bulletin, 120, 272-292]...
