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Personal Data
Anna Basora Marimon PhD Candidate
Office Address: Cognition and Brain Unit Dept. of Technology Universitat Pompeu Fabra C/ Roc Boronat, 138 08018 BARCELONA Spain Tel.: (+34) 93 542 2745 E-mail: anna.basora@upf.edu Web page: www.sap.upf.edu Date of Birth: April 1986, 2nd Citizenship: Spanish
Academics
2010– Current.: Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedicine, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) 2009 – 2010: M.A. in Neuroscience, Barcelona University (UB) 2004 – 2009: B.A. in Psychology, UB
Internships
2009: Research Internship at the Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab, Harvard University (Psychology Dept.) (6 months). 2009: Research Internship at the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Harvard Medical School (Division of Developmental Medicine) (6 month).
Work in Research
2010-2011: Project: ‘Speech perception: Not just what, but also how and who’ Cognition and Brain Unit Pompeu Fabra University PI: Núria Sebastián-Gallés
2009-2010: Project: 'Visual Fast Categorization’ Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab Harvard University, Psychology Dp., Boston PI: Alfonso Caramazza
Project: ‘Implicit Learning in Children with Autism’ Cognitive Neuroscience Lab Harvard Medical School, Boston PI: Charles Nelson
2008 – 2009: Project: ‘Epigenetics of critical periods in vocal communication – from mouse to man’ Harvard University and RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan PI: Takao Hensch
Project: ‘Bilingualism and Cognitive Neuroscience’ Barcelona Science Park and Basic Psychology Dp. UB PI: Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Project: ‘Asimetrias en el procesamiento de la lengua’ Barcelona Science Park and Basic Psychology Dp. UB PI: Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Grants
2011-2015: Research Fellow Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU) recived from Spanish Government. 2010-2011: Research Fellow received from UPF. 2009 – 2010: Research Fellow received from UB. 2009: Department Scholarship received from Spanish Government. 2008: Research Fellow ‘Passa l’estiu al Parc’ received from Barcelona Science Park.
Participation in Scientific Events
2011: IV BRAINGLOT Workshop Topic: ‘The genetic influence in speech perception and learning’ Type of participation: Poster Place: Vitoria 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics Topic: ‘The genetic influence in speech perception’ Type of participation: Poster Place: San Sebastián
2010: VII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psciofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva (SEPNECA). Topic: ‘Same genes different phenotypes: The environmental influences in speech perception’. Type of participation: Talk Place: Valencia
VI Reunión de la Red Temática de Neurociencia Cognitiva - V Workshop sobre Avances en el Estudio de la Actividad Cerebral. Topic: ‘Same genes different phenotypes: The environmental influences in speech perception’ Type of participation: Poster Place: Murcia
2009: II BRAINGLOT Workshop Topic: ‘Same genes different phenotypes: The environmental influences in speech perception’ Type of participation: Talk Place: Barcelona
Congress: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLAP) Type of participation: Collaborator Place: Barcelona
2008: Closing ceremony of ‘Passa l’estiu al Parc’ at Barcelona Science Park Topic: ‘Epigenetic in Speech Perception’ Type of participation: Talk Place: Barcelona
Other
2009: Participation in the documentary ‘Multilingualism ‘LEBAB/BABEL’’ Organizing entity: Mediapro Group
2008: Collaboration in the documentary ‘Epigenética: genes y estilo de vida’ with Dr. Manel Esteller. Cancer Epigenetics Lab, Oncology Catalan Institute
Languages: Catalan - Good Spanish - Good English - Good
Research knowledge: Experiment programming. Event-Related Potentials both recording and analysis. Acquisition and data analysis of behavioral experiments with humans.
Computing: Data analysis: Statistics: SPSS, MATLAB. Evoked Potentials: BrainVision Analyzer, EEGLab Neuroimaging: Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) Programming: E-Prime, MATLAB Data acquisition: ERPs: BrainVision Recording, ASA, NetStation Eye movements: Tobii Studio |