César Ávila

avila@uji.es

Position

Full Professor in Experimental Psychology. Universitat Jaume I, Spain

Bio

1991 PhD in Psychology at Autonomous University of Barcelona
1988 Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology at Autonomous University of Barcelona

Research Interest

Bilingualism, brain and cognition
Neural Basis of learning, cognitive training and rehabilitation
Resting state MRI as a measure of experience
Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Reward sensitivity, punishment sensitivity and personality

Most Relevant Publications

PubMed

Palomar-García, M. Á., Zatorre, R. J., Ventura-Campos, N., Bueichekú, E., & Ávila, C. (2017). Modulation of Functional Connectivity in Auditory-Motor Networks in Musicians Compared with Nonmusicians. Cerebral Cortex, 27(5), 2768–2778. http://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw120
Bueichekú, E., Miró-Padilla, A., Palomar-García, M.-T., Ventura-Campos, N., Parcet, M.-A., Barrós-Loscertales, A., & Ávila, C. (2016). Reduced posterior parietal cortex activation after training on a visual search task. NeuroImage, 135, 204–213. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.059
Fuentes-Claramonte, P., Avila, C., Rodriguez-Pujadas, A., Costumero, V., Ventura-Campos, N., Bustamante, J. C., … Barros-Loscertales, A. (2016). Characterizing individual differences in reward sensitivity from the brain networks involved in response inhibition. NeuroImage, 124(Pt A), 287–299. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.067
Noelia Ventura Campos, Ana Sanjuán Tomás, Julio González Álvarez, María de los Ángeles Palomar García, Aina Rodríguez Pujadas, Nuria Sebastian-Galles, Gustavo Deco, César Carlos Ávila Rivera. Spontaneous Brain Activity Predicts Learning Ability of Foreign Sounds. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE; 22 pp. 9295-9305. (2013). ISSN: 0270-6474
Costumero V, Rodríguez-Pujadas A, Fuentes-Claramonte P, Ávila C. How bilingualism shapes the functional architecture of the brain: A study on executive control in early bilinguals and monolinguals. Hum Brain Mapp. 2015; 36(12):5101–12.

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