Attention and Consciousness Research Group

From 28-30th September, we will be at the RECA11 (Reunión Científica sobre atención), Baeza (Jaén), presenting some of our work with several conferences: The casual role of the parietal lobe in facilitation and inhibition of return – Elisa Martín-Arévalo Attention modulates the evolution of visual consciousness – Fabiano Botta Neural modulations of the interference control… Read more acerca de RECA11

Very good news! We are all very happy because María Melcón has got a PhD fellowship from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Contratos predoctorales para la Formación de Personal Investigador 2017, FPI-UAM). Congratulations María!

Wednesday 13th September, J. Alberto Gómez Moro will present his Final Master Thesis titled “Implicación de los fascículos longitudinales superiores en la atención exógena y en la atención endógena en pacientes frontoparietales / Role of the Superior Longitudinal Fascicle in exdogenous and exogenous attention in frontoparietal patients” for the Master in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. … Read more acerca de TFM Defense

We start September with the publication of two new papers, congratulations! Ortiz-Tudela, J., Martín-Arévalo, E., Chica, A.B.,& Lupiáñez, J. (in press). Semantic incongruity attracts attention at a pre-conscious level: evidence from a TMS study. Cortex. Chica, A.B., Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Bartolomeo, P., and Paz-Alonso, P.M. (in press). White matter microstructure of attentional networks predicts… Read more acerca de New academic year, new papers

Very good news! We all are very happy because Cristina Narganes has got a PhD fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario, FPU). Congratulations!

Next Thursday 13th July, María Cobos will present her Final Master Thesis titled “Heart rate as a biological marker of attention-consciousness interactions” (find a summary here) for the Master in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience.  See you at 11.45 p.m. in the Conference Room 1 (CIMCYC). Good luck María!

Tomorrow (21th) we will say goodbye to Morteza Izadifar, after 6 months working with us. He is going to present some of his work (you can find here the abstract). See you at 13 p.m. in the seminar 2 (CIMCYC).

Next Friday 23th, Mar Martín Signes will present her thesis project titled “Causal contributions of the frontal lobe to the interactions between conscious perception and executive control mechanisms”. At 13.15 p.m. in the Seminar 5 (CIMCYC).