Author(s): Vaquero L; Ramos-Escobar N; Cucurell D; François C; Putkinen V; Segura E; Huotilainen M; Penhune V; Rodríguez-Fornells A;

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event related brain potential (ERP) elicited by unpredicted sounds presented in a sequence of repeated auditory stimuli. The neural sources of the MMN have been previously attributed to a fronto-temporo-parietal network which crucially overlaps with the so-call ...

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Author(s): Vaquero L; Ramos-Escobar N; François C; Penhune V; Rodríguez-Fornells A;

Music learning has received increasing attention in the last decades due to the variety of functions and brain plasticity effects involved during its practice. Most previous reports interpreted the differences between music experts and laymen as the result of training. However, recent investigations suggest that these differences are due to a combination ...

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Author(s): Elmer S; Hänggi J; Vaquero L; Cadena GO; François C; Rodríguez-Fornells A;

Due to the high linguistic and cognitive demands placed on real-time language translation, professional simultaneous interpreters (SIs) have previously been proposed to serve as a reasonable model for evaluating experience-dependent brain properties. However, currently it is still unknown whether intensive language training during adulthood might be refle ...

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