Carles Escera

Carles Escera

Full professor

ORCID: 0000-0001-8203-2951
Researcher ID: A-8658-2010
Knowledge area: Psicobiologia

Research group: IP Brainlab-Grup de Recrca en Neurociència Cognitiva

Contact Information
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Passeig Vall d'Hebron, 171.
933125048
cescera(a)ub.edu

My profile

Sóc catedràtic de Neurociència Cognitiva al Departament de Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia, Facultat de Psicologia, de la Universitat de Barcelona. He estat promotor i director de l'Institut ... + info

More Information: http://www.ub.edu/brainlab/carles-escera-catala/

Research Projects

Cognición subcortical . 2014 - 2016 . Ref.PSI2013-49348-EXP . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Carles Enric Escera Mico
Ajut per incentivar i consolidar la recerca d'excel·lència ja existent a les universitats públiques de Catalunya. Programa ICREA Academia 2020 . 2021 - 2025 . Fundació Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) . PI: Carles Enric Escera Mico
The sound of special places: exploring rock art soundscapes and the sacred (ARTSOUNDSCAPES) . 2018 - 2024 . Ref.787842 . Unió Europea . PI: Margarita Diaz-Andreu Garcia
Trastornos del espectro alcohólico fetal (TEAF): Identificación precoz y biomarcadores de riesgo para alteraciones neurocognitivas mediante el potencial de seguimiento de frecuencia (PSF) . 2020 - 2022 . Fundación Alicia Koplowitz . PI: Carles Escera
Caracterización de la respuesta de seguimiento de frecuencia (RSF) en recién nacidos como posible biomarcador de desarrollo neurocognitivo . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.PGC2018-094765-B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Carles Enric Escera Mico

Relevant publications

Recasens, Marc; Leung, Sumie; Grimm, Sabine; Nowak, Rafal; Escera, Carles (2015). Repetition suppression and repetition enhancement underlie auditory memory-trace formation in the human brain: an MEG study. Neuroimage, 108, pp. 75 - 86 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.031 . ISSN: 1053-8119
Selinger, L.; Zarnowiec,K.; Via, M.; Clemente, I.C.; Escera, C. (2016). Involvement of the Serotonin Transporter Gene in Accurate Subcortical Speech Encoding. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(42), pp. 10782 - 10790 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0270-6474
Costa-Faidella, Jordi; Sussman, Elyse S.; Escera, Carles (2017). Selective entrainment of brain oscillations drives auditory perceptual organization. Neuroimage, 159, pp. 195 - 206 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.07.056 . ISSN: 1053-8119
Parras, G.G.; Nieto-Diego, J.; Carbajal, G.V.; Valdes-Baizabal, C.; Escera, C.; Malmierca, M.S. (2017). Neurons along the auditory pathway exhibit a hierarchical organization of prediction error. Nature Communications, 8, p. 2148 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2041-1723
Ribas-Prats, T.; Almeida, L.; Costa-Faidella, J.; Plana, M.; Corral, M.J.; Gómez-Roig, M.D.; Escera, C. (2019). The frequency-following response (FFR) to speech stimuli: a normative dataset in healthy newborns. Hearing Research, 371, pp. 28 - 39 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2018.11.001 . ISSN: 0378-5955
Cacciaglia, R.; Costa-Faidella, J.; Zarnowiec, K.; Grimm, S.; Escera, C. (2019). Auditory predictions shape the neural responses to stimulus repetition and sensory change. Neuroimage, 186, pp. 200 - 210 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.11.007 . ISSN: 1053-8119
20. Malmierca, M.S., Niño-Aguillón, B., Nieto-Diego, J., Porteros, A., Pérez-Gonzálex, D., & Escera, C. (2018). Pattern-sensitive neurons reveal encoding of complex auditory regularities in the rat inferior colliculus. Neuroimage, 184, pp. 889 - 900 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.012 . ISSN: 1053-8119
Recasens, Marc; Leung, Sumie; Grimm, Sabine; Nowak, Rafal; Escera, Carles (2015). Repetition suppression and repetition enhancement underlie auditory memory-trace formation in the human brain: an MEG study. Neuroimage, 108, pp. 75 - 86 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.031 . ISSN: 1053-8119
Gorina-Careta, N.; Kurkela, J.; Hämälainen, J.; Astikainen, P.; Escera, C. (2021). Neural generators of the frequency-following response elicited to stimuli of low and high frequency: a magnetoencephalographic (MEG) study. Neuroimage(117866.) . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117866 . ISSN: 1053-8119
Arenillas-Alcón, S.; Costa-Faidella, J.; Ribas-Prats, T.; Gómez-Roig, M.D.; Escera, C. (2021). Neural encoding of speech sound features at birth: fully functional for pitch contour, emerging for temporal fine structure. Scientific Reports . ISSN: 2045-2322

Directed Thesis, minor thesis and research reports

Miriam Cornella Griful . (2015) . Auditory regularity encoding in the human brain: cortical and subcortical mechanisms (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Lenka Selinger . (2016) . The modulation of auditory function by genetic and emotional factors (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
Sónia Isabel Do Vale Fernandes . (2016) . Effects of Dehydroepiandrosterone on cognition: an electrophysiological approach (Ph.D. Thesis) . University of Lisbon.
Natàlia Gorina Careta . (2019) . Contribution of the subcortical auditory pathway to the perception and processing of sounds (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.
López-Caballero, F . (2019) . Evoked and induced activity in the auditory nervous system: deviance detection and brainwave entrainment (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat de Barcelona.