Browsing by Author "Ávila, César"

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  • A Cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures
    Costumero, Víctor; Marin-Marin, Lidon; Calabria, Marco; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero, Joaquín; Baquero, Miguel; Hernández Pardo, Mireia; Ruiz de Miras, Juan; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Parcet, Maria-Antònia; Ávila, César (BioMed Central, 2020)
    Background Evidence from previous studies suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve because bilinguals manifest the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to 5 years later than monolinguals. Other ...
  • Active bilingualism delays the onset of mild cognitive impairment
    Calabria, Marco; Hernández Pardo, Mireia; Cattaneo, Gabriele, 1984-; Serras Robert, Mariona; Juncadella, Montserrat; Reñé, Ramón; Sala, Isabel; Lleó, Alberto; Ortiz-Gil, Jordi; Ugas, Lidia; Ávila, Asunción; Gómez Ruiz, Isabel; Ávila, César; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Elsevier, 2020)
    Lifelong bilingualism may contribute to cognitive reserve (CR) in neurodegenerative diseases as shown by a delay of the age at symptom onset in bilinguals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). ...
  • An Effect of bilingualism on the auditory cortex
    Ressel, Volker; Pallier, Christophe; Ventura Campos, Noelia; Díaz Menéndez, Begoña, 1979-; Roessler, Abeba; Ávila, César; Sebastián Gallés, Núria (Society for Neuroscience, 2012)
    Two studies (Golestani et al., 2007; Wong et al., 2008) have reported a positive correlation between the ability to perceive foreign speech sounds and the volume of Heschl's gyrus (HG), the structure that houses the auditory ...
  • Auditory and frontal anatomic correlates of pitch discrimination in musicians, non-musicians, and children without musical training
    Palomar García, María Ángeles; Hernández Pardo, Mireia; Olcina, Gustau; Adrián Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Miró Padilla, Anna; Villar Rodríguez, Esteban; Ávila, César (Springer, 2020)
    Individual differences in pitch discrimination have been associated with the volume of both the bilateral Heschl’s gyrus and the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). However, most of these studies used samples composed of ...
  • Bilingualism at the core of the brain: structural differences between bilinguals and monolinguals revealed by subcortical shape analysis
    Burgaleta Díaz, Miguel, 1981-; Sanjuán, Ana; Ventura Campos, Noelia; Sebastián Gallés, Núria; Ávila, César (Elsevier, 2016)
    Naturally acquiring a language shapes the human brain through a long-lasting learning and practice process. This is supported by previous studies showing that managing more than one language from early childhood has an ...
  • Bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals to perform non-linguistic switching tasks
    Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Sanjuán, Ana; Ventura Campos, Noelia; Román, Patricia; Martin, Clara D.; Barceló-Arroyo, Francisco; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Ávila, César (Public Library of Science, 2013)
    We tested the hypothesis that early bilinguals use language-control brain areas more than monolinguals when performing/nnon-linguistic executive control tasks. We do so by exploring the brain activity of early bilinguals ...
  • Distance disintegration delineates the brain connectivity failure of Alzheimer's disease
    Costumero, Víctor; Uquillas, Federico d'Oleire; Díez, Ibai; Andorrà, Magí; Basaia, Silvia; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Ortiz Terán, Laura; Belloch, Vicente; Escudero Torrella, Joaquin; Ávila, César; Sepulcre, Jorge (Elsevier, 2020)
    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with brain network dysfunction. Network-based investigations of brain connectivity have mainly focused on alterations in the strength of connectivity; however, the network breakdown ...
  • Hand gestures as visual prosody: BOLD responses to audio–visual alignment are modulated by the communicative nature of the stimuli
    Biau, Emmanuel, 1985-; Morís Fernández, Luis, 1982-; Holle, Henning; Ávila, César; Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970- (Elsevier, 2016)
    During public addresses, speakers accompany their discourse with spontaneous hand gestures (beats) that are tightly synchronized with the prosodic contour of the discourse. It has been proposed that speech and beat gestures ...
  • Individual differences in hippocampal volume as a function of BMI and reward sensitivity
    Parcet, Maria-Antònia; Adrián Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Ávila, César (Frontiers, 2020)
    Sensitivity to reward is a personality trait that predisposes a person to several addictive behaviors, including the presence of different risky behaviors that facilitates uncontrolled eating. However, the multifactorial ...
  • Linking personality and brain anatomy: a structural MRI approach to reinforcement sensitivity theory
    Adrián Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Parcet, Maria-Antònia; Ávila, César (Oxford University Press, 2019)
    Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) proposes a widely used taxonomy of human personality linked to individual differences at both behavioral and neuropsychological levels that describe a predisposition to psychopathology. ...
  • Neural correlates of audiovisual speech processing in a second language
    Barrós Loscertales, Alfonso; Ventura Campos, Noelia; Visser, Maya; Alsius, Agnès; Pallier, Christophe; Ávila, César; Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970- (Elsevier, 2013)
    Neuroimaging studies of audiovisual speech processing have exclusively addressed listeners’ native language (L1). Yet, several behavioural studies now show that AV processing plays an important role in non-native (L2) ...
  • Opening or closing eyes at rest modulates the functional connectivity of V1 with default and salience networks
    Costumero, Víctor; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Adrián Ventura, Jesús; Ávila, César (Springer, 2020)
    Current evidence suggests that volitional opening or closing of the eyes modulates brain activity and connectivity. However, how the eye state influences the functional connectivity of the primary visual cortex has been ...
  • Spontaneous brain activity predicts learning ability of foreign sounds
    Ventura Campos, Noelia; Sanjuán, Ana; González, Julio; Palomar García, María Ángeles; Rodríguez Pujadas, Aina; Sebastián Gallés, Núria; Deco, Gustavo; Ávila, César (Society for Neuroscience, 2013)
    Can learning capacity of the human brain be predicted from initial spontaneous functional connectivity (FC) between brain areas involved in a task? We combined task-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and ...
  • Sustained and transient gray matter volume changes after n-back training: A VBM study
    Miró Padilla, Anna; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Adrián Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Palomar García, María Ángeles; Villar Rodríguez, Esteban; Marin-Marin, Lidon; Aguirre, Naiara; Ávila, César (Elsevier, 2021)
    Working memory training causes functional adaptations in the brain, which include changes in activation and functional connectivity that remain stable over time. Few studies have investigated gray matter (GM) changes after ...
  • The Manifestation of individual differences in sensitivity to punishment during resting state is modulated by eye state
    Costumero, Víctor; Adrián Ventura, Jesús; Bueichekú, Elisenda; Miró Padilla, Anna; Palomar García, María Ángeles; Marin-Marin, Lidon; Villar Rodríguez, Esteban; Aguirre, Naiara; Barrós Loscertales, Alfonso; Ávila, César (Springer, 2021)
    Structural and functional neuroimaging studies have shown that brain areas associated with fear and anxiety (defensive system areas) are modulated by individual differences in sensitivity to punishment (SP). However, little ...
  • Top-down attention regulates the neural expression of audiovisual integration
    Morís Fernández, Luis, 1982-; Visser, Maya; Ventura Campos, Noelia; Ávila, César; Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970- (Elsevier, 2015)
    The interplay between attention and multisensory integration has proven to be a difficult question to tackle./nThere are almost as many studies showing that multisensory integration occurs independently from the focus/nof ...

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