• openAccess   Auditory and frontal anatomic correlates of pitch discrimination in musicians, non-musicians, and children without musical training 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Hernández, Mireia; Olcina-Sempere, Gustau; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Avila, Cesar Springer (2020-12)
      Individual differences in pitch discrimination have been associated with the volume of both the bilateral Heschl’s gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). However, most of these studies used samples composed of ...
    • openAccess   Bilingualism's Effects on Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment 

      Marin-Marin, Lidón; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Aguirre, Naiara; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Costumero, Víctor Mary Ann Liebert (2021-01-21)
      Background: Bilingualism is considered a cognitive reserve (CR) factor, due to the delay in the onset of dementia in bilinguals compared with monolinguals. Two neural mechanisms have been suggested to underlie CR: neural ...
    • openAccess   Distance disintegration characterizes node-level topological dysfunctions in cocaine addiction 

      Costumero, Víctor; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Llopis, Juan José; Sepulcre, Jorge; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso Wiley (2021-11)
      Previous investigations have used global graph theory measures in order to disentangle the complexity of the neural reorganizations occurring in cocaine use disorder (CUD). However, how these global topological alterations ...
    • closedAccess   Do bilinguals show neural differences with monolinguals when processing their native language? 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Avila, Cesar; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Strijkers, Kristof; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Costa, Albert Elsevier (2015-03)
      The present research used fMRI to measure brain activity in passive listening and picture-naming tasks with a group of early high proficient Spanish–Catalan bilinguals, in which Spanish was dominant, and a group of Spanish ...
    • openAccess   Functional Connectivity Between Superior Parietal Lobule and Primary Visual Cortex “at Rest” Predicts Visual Search Efficiency 

      Bueichekú, Elisenda; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Mary Ann Liebert (2015)
      Spatiotemporal activity that emerges spontaneously “at rest” has been proposed to reflect individual a priori biases in cognitive processing. This research focused on testing neurocognitive models of visual attention by ...
    • openAccess   Functional connectivity in resting state as a phonemic fluency ability measure 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2017)
      There is some evidence that functional connectivity (FC) measures obtained at rest may reflect individual differences in cognitive capabilities. We tested this possibility by using the FAS test as a measure of phonemic ...
    • openAccess   Left-handed musicians show a higher probability of atypical cerebral dominance for language. 

      Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Hernández, Mireia; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Olcina-Sempere, Gustau; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Wiley (2020-02-07)
      Music processing and right hemispheric language lateralization share a common network in the right auditory cortex and its frontal connections. Given that the development of hemispheric language dominance takes place over ...
    • openAccess   Modulation of Functional Connectivity in Auditory-Motor Networks in Musicians Compared with Nonmusicians 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Zatorre, Robert J.; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Avila, Cesar Oxford University Press (2016-05)
      Correlation of spontaneous fluctuations at rest between anatomically distinct brain areas are proposed to reflect the profile of individual a priori cognitive biases, coded as synaptic efficacies in cortical networks. Here, ...
    • closedAccess   Reduced posterior parietal cortex activation after training on a visual search task 

      Bueichekú, Elisenda; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2016-07)
      Gaining experience on a cognitive task improves behavioral performance and is thought to enhance brain efficiency. Despite the body of literature already published on the effects of training on brain activation, less ...
    • closedAccess   Separate Contribution of Striatum Volume and Pitch Discrimination to Individual Differences in Music Reward 

      Hernández, Mireia; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Nohales Nieto, Benito; Olcina-Sempere, Gustau; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Pastor Medall, Raúl; Avila, Cesar; Parcet, Maria Antonia SAGE Publications (2019)
      Individual differences in the level of pleasure induced by music have been associated with the response of the striatum and differences in functional connectivity between the striatum and the auditory cortex. In this ...
    • openAccess   Spontaneous Brain Activity Predicts Learning Ability of Foreign Sounds 

      Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; González-Álvarez, Julio; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Sebastián Gallés, Nuria; Deco, Gustavo; Avila, Cesar Society for Neuroscience (2013-05)
      Can learning capacity of the human brain be predicted from initial spontaneous functional connectivity (FC) between brain areas involved in a task? We combined task-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and ...
    • openAccess   Sustained and transient gray matter volume changes after n-back training: A VBM study 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Avila, Cesar; Aguirre, Naiara Elsevier (2020-12-19)
      Working memory training causes functional adaptations in the brain, which include changes in activation and functional connectivity that remain stable over time. Few studies have investigated gray matter (GM) changes after ...
    • openAccess   Syllable Frequency and Spoken Word Recognition: An Inhibitory Effect 

      González-Álvarez, Julio; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles SAGE (2016)
      Research has shown that syllables play a relevant role in lexical access in Spanish, a shallow language with a transparent syllabic structure. Syllable frequency has been shown to have an inhibitory effect on visual word ...
    • openAccess   El test Jake Mandell como instrumento para medir las diferencias individuales en la discriminación tonal: propiedades de validez y fiabilidad 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Olcina-Sempere, Gustau; Hernández, Mireia; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Mandell, Jacob; Avila, Cesar Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2020)
      El test de Jake Mandell (JMT) es un test online diseñado para evaluar la discriminación tonal en la población normal. El test está disponible online desde 2006, pero no se han publicado datos psicométricos. La presente ...
    • openAccess   The adhesio interthalamica as a neuroanatomical marker of structural differences in healthy adult population 

      Miró-Padilla, Anna; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Aguirre, Naiara; Bueichekú, Elisenda Springer (2021-07-01)
      The adhesio interthalamica (AI) is a small midline brain structure that connects the left and right thalamus. According to in vivo data, between 2.3 and 22.3% of the general population lack the AI, and the question of ...
    • openAccess   The dynamic imprint of word learning on the dorsal language pathway 

      Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2017)
      According to Hickok and Poeppel (2007), the acquisition of new vocabulary rests on the dorsal language pathway connecting auditory and motor areas. The present study tested this hypothesis longitudinally by measuring ...
    • openAccess   The manifestation of individual differences in sensitivity to punishment during resting state is modulated by eye state 

      Costumero, Víctor; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Villar-Rodríguez, Esteban; Aguirre, Naiara; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Avila, Cesar Springer (2021)
    • openAccess   Twenty-two years of psychological science in Psychological Science 

      González-Álvarez, Julio; Palomar-García, María-Ángeles Taylor & Francis (2014-02-20)
      The journal Psychological Science (PS) has undergone various changes over 22 years since its birth in 1990. Analysis of Web of Science's records shows that the publication has increased in volume and collaborations between ...