Groups & Lines of Research
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Mireia Hernández Pardo
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Ruth de Diego-Balaguer
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Josep Marco-Pallarés
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Estela Càmara Mancha
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Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
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Lluís Fuentemilla Garriga
Cognition and Brain Plasticity is an interdisciplinary Unit devoted to studying the nervous system’s structural and functional reorganization capacity, and its role in development, neurological injuries, learning, neurorehabilitation and/or interventional processes.
We combine neuroimaging techniques with specific experimental paradigms in order to understand the mechanisms of plastic changes in the brain. This multidisciplinary goal can be seen in the research topics of the different groups in the unit, focusing on language learning and its dysfunctions, the dynamics of memory formation and reward processing, and motivation. The Unit’s groups consist of members with different trainings and backgrounds working in tandem to further their mutual lines of research. The team develops new analysis methods for basic research that have direct implications for clinical applications.
We believe that understanding the mechanisms and limits of neuroplasticity in adults’ and children’s cognitive functions through basic research will lead to improvements in intervention programs that ameliorate the sequelae induced by neurological diseases and improve cognitive capacities in healthy individuals.
Webpage financed with ERC funding
García-Arch, J., Friedrichm, S., Wu, X., Cucurell, D., Fuentemilla, Ll. (2024). Beyond the Positivity Bias: The Processing and Integration of Self-relevant Feedback is Driven by its Alignment with Pre-Existing Self-Views PsyArXiv
Vicente, U., Ara, A., Palacín-Lois, M., Marco-Pallarés, J. (2024). Neurophysiological correlates of interpersonal discrepancy and social adjustment in an interactive decision-making task in dyads Frontiers in Psycholgy. 15:1272841