Congratulations are in order! As announced at the CRG webpage, The Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has offered one full fellowship, which will cover for the traveling and the accommodation expenses, to a person working in an EU Widening country. Jarmila Havelková is currently working...
Mel Slater, researcher at the University of Barcelona and member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBneuro), leads the first European Metaverse Research Network (ERMN). This network includes eight leading research institutions from seven European countries. Their aim is to promote research to identify...
This year the Science Festival of the University of Barcelona reaches its ninth edition and offers more workshops than ever, a total of 67, in which researchers from the Institute and a wide range of disciplines will explain the research being carried out at the...
The psychiatrist Eduard Vieta, the epidemiologist and paediatrician Quique Bassat and the economist Judit Vall have been awarded the 10th UB Doctors’ Senate and Board of Trustees’ Award to the top scientific and humanistic dissemination activities, an award that aims to promote the dissemination of...
The results of the European Research Council's (ERC) Proof of Concept grants, which fund projects by researchers who have been previously awarded ERC grants, have been published today. Mel Slater, a researcher at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Barcelona and member of the UB...
Generating new memories and remembering are two sides of the same coin, although sometimes they can appear as separate mechanisms. These mechanisms which seem to be distanced from each other are actually interconnected and are part of the same neural assemblies, according to a study...
This past Friday, 28th April, the University of Barcelona hosts the XX Technical Conference on Huntington's Disease, organized together with the Catalan Association of Huntington's Patients (ACMAH). Jordi Alberch, director of the Institute of Neurosciences at the UB, and also representatives from several hospitals, such...
The new protocol, published in Nature Neuroscience, defines the parameters for optimum identification of functional networks through resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a non-invasive imaging method that allows for the observation of brain activation and the...
Language acquisition is a complex process that requires different neural and cognitive skills since early childhood. One of children’s big challenges in language learning is to distinguish the words that are grammatically linked to each other, even though they hear one word after the...
When pregnant women sing to their babies or listen to music on loudspeakers during their pregnancy, babies are born with a better ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by Professor Carles Escera, head...