• openAccess   An effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex 

      Ressel, Volker; Pallier, Christophe; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Díaz, Begoña; Roessler, Abeba; Avila, Cesar; Sebastián Gallés, Nuria Society for Neuroscience (2012-11)
      Two studies (Golestani et al., 2007; Wong et al., 2008) have reported a positive correlation between the ability to perceive foreign speech sounds and the volume of Heschl's gyrus (HG), the structure that houses the auditory ...
    • 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, ...