• openAccess   Brain networks involved in accented speech processing 

      Hernández, Mireia; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Costa, Albert; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2019-07)
      We investigated the neural correlates of accented speech processing (ASP) with an fMRI study that overcame prior limitations in this line of research: we preserved intelligibility by using two regional accents that differ ...
    • openAccess   Brain-Anatomy Differences in the Commission of Reversal Errors during Algebraic Word Problem Solving 

      Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Ferrando, Lara; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Avila, Cesar International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (2022-07-17)
      An important line of research related to the resolution of word problems is the study of the cognitive processes involved when subjects translate problems into the language of algebra. One of the most common errors in ...
    • openAccess   Brain-anatomy image data set for problem solving associated with reversal error: Volumetric data 

      Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Ferrando, Lara; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2023-03-17)
      Reversal Error (RE) is a common error in algebra problem solving. This error occurs when students recognize the information in the statement but make mistakes when translating some sentences from natural language to algebraic ...
    • closedAccess   Bridging language and attention: Brain basis of the impact of bilingualism on cognitive control 

      Garbin, Gabrielle; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Forn, Cristina; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Belloch, Vicente; Hernández, Mireia; Costa, Albert; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2010)
      Using two languages on an everyday basis appears to have a positive effect on general-purpose executive control in bilinguals. However, the neural correlates of this effect remain poorly understood. To investigate the brain ...
    • openAccess   Cambios en el volumen regional de sustancia gris asociados al consumo de tabaco 

      Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Costumero, Víctor; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Avila, Cesar Universitat Jaume I (2011)
      El consumo crónico de tabaco se ha asociado a reducciones en el volumen global del cerebro y a una ejecución más pobre en tareas que implican funciones ejecutivas. En estudios previos, el consumo de tabaco se ha ...
    • openAccess   Un caso de síndrome de mano ajena fronto-calloso 

      Mallol Sales, R.; Geffner, D.; López, María Teresa; Martínez Lozano, M. D.; Belloch, Vicente; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Universitat Jaume I (2001)
      Diferentes estudios teóricos (Feinberg, y cols., 1992; Baynes y cols. 1997; Doody y Jankovic 1992) han mostrado que el síndrome de la mano ajena (Brion y Jedynak 1972) puede tener dos manifestaciones que son: mano ajena ...
    • closedAccess   Characterizing individual differences in reward sensitivity from the brain networks involved in response inhibition 

      Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Avila, Cesar; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Costumero, Víctor; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Rosell Negre, Patricia; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso Elsevier (2016)
      A “disinhibited” cognitive profile has been proposed for individuals with high reward sensitivity, characterized by increased engagement in goal-directed responses and reduced processing of negative or unexpected cues, ...
    • openAccess   Complexity Analysis of Cortical Surface Detects Changes in Future Alzheimer’s Disease Converters 

      Ruiz de Miras, Juan; Costumero, Víctor; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Avila, Cesar; Sepulcre, Jorge Wiley (2017-12)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurological disorder that creates neurodegenerative changes at several structural and functional levels in human brain tissue. The fractal dimension (FD) is a quantitative parameter that ...
    • closedAccess   Differential dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation during a verbal n-back task according to sensory modality 

      Rodríguez Jiménez, Roberto; Avila, Cesar; García Navarro, Cristina; Bagney, Alexandra; Aragón, Ana M.; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Martínez Gras, Isabel; Forn, Cristina; Ponce, Guillermo; Rubio, Gabriel; Jiménez Arriero, Miguel Ángel; Palomo, Tomás Elsevier (2009)
      Functional neuroimaging studies carried out on healthy volunteers while performing different n-back tasks have shown a common pattern of bilateral frontoparietal activation, especially of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex ...
    • closedAccess   Differential neural control in early bilinguals and monolinguals during response inhibition 

      Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2014-05)
      We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals and monolinguals use different brain areas when performing nonlinguistic executive control tasks. For this, we explored brain activity of early bilinguals and monolinguals ...
    • openAccess   Distance disintegration delineates the brain connectivity failure of Alzheimer's disease 

      Costumero, Víctor; d'Oleire Uquillas, Federico; Diez, Ibai; Andorrà, Magi; Basaia, Silvia; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Ortiz-Terán, Laura; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Avila, Cesar; Sepulcre, Jorge Elsevier (2019-12-14)
      Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with brain network dysfunction. Network-based investigations of brain connectivity have mainly focused on alterations in the strength of connectivity; however, the network breakdown ...
    • 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   Dynamic effects of immersive bilingualism on cortical and subcortical grey matter volumes 

      Marin-Marin, Lidón; Costumero, Víctor; Avila, Cesar; Pliatsikas, Christos (2022)
      Bilingualism has been shown to induce neuroplasticity in the brain, but conflicting evidence regarding its specific effects in grey matter continues to emerge, probably due to methodological differences between studies, ...
    • openAccess   Effects of bilingualism on white matter atrophy in mild cognitive impairment: a diffusion tensor imaging study 

      Marin-Marin, Lidón; Costumero, Víctor; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Baquero Toledo, Miguel; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Wiley (2019-12-05)
      Background and purpose:Previous investigations show that bilinguals exhibitthe first symptoms of dementia 4–5 years later than monolinguals. Therefore,bilingualism has been proposed as a cognitive reserve mechanism. Recent ...
    • openAccess   Enhanced frontoparietal connectivity in multiple sclerosis patients and healthy controls in response to an intensive computerized training focused on working memory 

      Aguirre, Naiara; Cruz Gómez, Álvaro Javier; Félix Esbrí, Sonia; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Avila, Cesar; Sanchis-Segura, Carla; Forn, Cristina; Broseta Torres, Ricardo Elsevier ScienceDirect (2021-04-24)
      Background: Working memory (WM) deficits are common in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Computerized cognitive training may enhance WM capabilities but its efficacy in MS patients has not been sufficiently explored. ...
    • openAccess   El entrenamiento en memoria de trabajo mejora la eficiencia cognitiva en pacientes de Esclerosis Múltiple 

      Aguirre, Naiara; Cruz Gómez, Álvaro Javier; Miró-Padilla, Anna; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Solozano Belenguer, Noemí; Broseta Torres, Ricardo; Avila, Cesar; Sanchis-Segura, Carla; Forn, Cristina Aten-D (2018)
      La Esclerosis Múltiple (EM) es una enfermedad en la que la memoria de trabajo (MT) se encuentra comúnmente afectada. Estudiar la eficacia de un programa de entrenamiento en MT en pacientes de EM. 29 pacientes de EM ...
    • openAccess   Evidence for degraded low frequency verbal concepts in left resected temporal lobe epilepsy patients 

      Visser, Maya; Forn, Cristina; Lambon Ralph, Matthew A.; Hoffman, P.; Gómez Ibáñez, A.; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Rossell Negre, P.; Villanueva, Vicente; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2018)
      According to a large neuropsychological and neuroimaging literature, the bilateral anterior temporal lobe (ATL) is a core region for semantic processing. It seems therefore surprising that semantic memory appears to be ...
    • closedAccess   Exploring Neural Efficiency in Multiple Sclerosis Patients during the Symbol Digit Modalities Test: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study 

      Fittipaldi Márquez, María Sol; Cruz Gómez, Álvaro Javier; Sanchis-Segura, Carla; Belenguer, A.; Avila, Cesar; Forn, Cristina Karger Publishers (2017)
      Background: Reduced information-processing speed (IPS) is a primary cognitive deficit of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The neural efficiency hypothesis describes an inverse relationship between cognitive performance ...
    • closedAccess   Extreme Learning Machines for Feature Selection and Classification of Cocaine Dependent Patients on Structural MRI Data 

      Termenon, Maite; Graña, Manuel; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Avila, Cesar Springer US (2013-12)
      In this paper, we present a Computer Aided Diagnosis and image biomarker identification system for cocaine dependence, which selects relevant regions from a set of brain structural magnetic resonance images (sMRI). After ...
    • closedAccess   Frontostriatal response to set switching is moderated by reward sensitivity 

      Avila, Cesar; Garbin, Gabrielle; Sanjuán Tomás, Ana; Forn, Cristina; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Belloch, Vicente; Parcet, Maria Antonia Oxford University Press (2011)
      The reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) relates individual differences in reward sensitivity to the activation of the behavioral approach system (BAS). Dopamine-related brain structures have been repeatedly associated ...