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A cognitive neuroscience approach to individual differences in sensitivity to reward
Avila, Cesar; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso Springer-Verlag (2008)The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory proposes that a neurobiological system, the Behavioral Activation System, defines individual differences on the subject’s sensitivity and reactivity to appetitive stimuli associated ... -
A comparison of brain activation patterns during covert and overt paced auditory serial addition test tasks
Forn, Cristina; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Belenguer Benavides, Antonio; Belloch, Vicente; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Wiley (2008-06)The Paced Auditory Serial Addition test (PASAT) is a sensitive task for evaluating cognitive impairment in patients with diffuse brain disorders, such as multiple sclerosis patients. Brain areas involved in this task have ... -
A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures.
Costumero, Víctor; Marin-Marin, Lidón; Calabria, Marco; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Baquero Toledo, Miguel; Hernández, Mireia; Ruiz de Miras, Juan; Costa, Albert; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Springer (2020-01-10)Background: Evidence from previous studies suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve because bilinguals manifest the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to 5 years later than monolinguals. ... -
A new window to understanding individual differences in reward sensitivity from attentional networks
Costumero, Víctor; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Avila, Cesar Springer (2014-04)Existing evidence suggests that the presence of reward cues modifies the activity in attentional networks, however, the nature of these influences remains poorly understood. Here, we performed independent component analysis ... -
A Symbol Digit Modalities Test version suitable for functional MRI studies
Forn, Cristina; Belloch, Vicente; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Garbin, Gabrielle; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2009)The Symbol Digit Modalities Test is an easy test used to assess cognitive impairment in a wide range of neurological diseases, like multiple sclerosis. We adapted the oral version of this cognitive task making it suitable ... -
Abstinence duration modulates striatal functioning during monetary reward processing in cocaine patients
Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Costumero, Víctor; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Llopis Llácer, Juan José; Avila, Cesar Wiley (2013)Pre-clinical and clinical studies in cocaine addiction highlight alterations in the striatal dopaminergic reward system that subserve maintenance of cocaine use. Using an instrumental conditioning paradigm with monetary ... -
Accelerated long-term forgetting in resected and seizure-free temporal lobe epilepsy patients
Visser, Maya; Forn, Cristina; Gómez Ibáñez, A.; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Villanueva, Vicente; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2018)Episodic memory impairments caused by temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) are well documented in the literature. Standard clinical episodic memory tests typically include a 30-min delayed recall test. However, in the past decade, ... -
Activación del córtex frontal inferior en una tarea de control inhibitorio con contingencias de reforzamiento en pacientes con dependencia a la cocaína
Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Llopis Llácer, Juan José; Avila, Cesar Universitat Jaume I (2007)Objetivo: Estudiar el funcionamiento cerebral a nivel del córtex frontal en una tarea de control inhibitorio con contingencias de reforzamiento en pacientes con dependencia a la cocaína y no consumidores. Metodología: Una ... -
Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment
Calabria, Marco; Hernández, Mireia; Cattaneo, Gabriele; Suades, Anna; Serra, Mariona; Juncadella, Montserrat; Reñé, Ramón; Sala, Isabel; Lleó, Alberto; Ortiz-Gil, Jordi; Ugas, Lidia; Ávila, Asunción; Gómez Ruiz, Isabel; Avila, Cesar; Costa, Albert Elsevier (2020)Lifelong bilingualism may contribute to cognitive reserve (CR) in neurodegenerative diseases as shown by a delay of the age at symptom onset in bilinguals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). ... -
Actividad cerebral durante la anticipación y la reactividad a imágenes eróticas en función de las diferencias individuales en extraversión
Costumero, Víctor; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Avila, Cesar Universitat Jaume I (2009) -
Alterations in Brain Structure and Amplitude of Low-frequency after 8 weeks of Mindfulness Meditation Training in Meditation-Naïve Subjects
Yang, Chuan-Chih; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Li, Meng; Pinazo, Daniel; Borchardt, Viola; Avila, Cesar; Walter, Martin Nature Research (2019)Increasing neuroimaging evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation expertise is related to different functional and structural configurations of the default mode network (DMN), the salience network (SN) and the executive ... -
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 ... -
Anatomical and functional differences between the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test and the Symbol Digit Modalities Test
Forn, Cristina; Belenguer Benavides, Antonio; Belloch, Vicente; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Psychology Press (2010)The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) and the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) are generally used to detect cognitive impairments in multiple sclerosis patients. Although both seem to be sensitive to the slow ... -
Aplicación de la resonancia magnética funcional en la evaluación prequirúrgica en neurocirugía
Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Avila, Cesar; Parcet, Maria Antonia Universitat Jaume I (2001)La resonancia magnética funcional presenta un gran potencial en la evaluación prequirúrgica de las funciones cognitivas básicas motoras, lingüísticas y mnésicas. Sus resultados se basan en el denominado efecto BOLD (blood ... -
El aprendizaje emocional con reforzadores secundarios no fortalece el recuerdo retroactivo de eventos relacionados
Cuadrado Gómez, Carolina Elizabeth; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Avila, Cesar Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I. Servei de Comunicació i Publicacions (2018)Introducción: Vivir experiencias con gran impacto emocional tiene un efecto trascendentalsobre la memoria, así lo demuestran diversos estudios donde se defiende quelos eventos emocionales se retienen mejor que los eventos ... -
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 ... -
BAS-drive trait modulates dorsomedial striatum activity during reward response-outcome associations
Costumero, Víctor; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Avila, Cesar Springer US (2016)According to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, behavioral studies have found that individuals with stronger reward sensitivity easily detect cues of reward and establish faster associations between instrumental responses ... -
Bilateral inferior frontal language-related activation correlates with verbal recall in patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy and typical language distribution
Bustamante, Juan Carlos; García Porcar, María; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Forn, Cristina; Martínez, Juan Carlos; Palau, Juan; Campos, Anabel; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Gutiérrez, Antonio; Villanueva, Vicente; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2013)Language fMRI has been used in the presurgical evaluation of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Previous studies have demonstrated that left temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE) patients with atypical language ... -
Bilingualism at the core of the brain. Structural differences between bilinguals and monolinguals revealed by subcortical shape analysis
Burgaleta, Miguel; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Sebastián Gallés, Nuria; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2015) -
Bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals to perform non-linguistic switching tasks
Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Martín, Clara; Barceló, Francisco; Costa, Albert; Román Fernández, Patricia; Avila, Cesar Public Library of Science (2013)We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals when performing non-linguistic executive control tasks. We do so by exploring the brain activity of early bilinguals ...