Institute of Biomedical Technologies

Cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics

Principal Investigator

Horacio A. Barber Friend, PhD

Full Professor of Basic Psychology; Department of Cognitive, Social and Organizational Psychology, ULL

 

Collaborating researchers (PhDs)

  • Moisés Betancort Montesinos (Full Professor at the University; Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology, ULL)
  • Markus Conrad, PhD (Contracted Professor; Department of Cognitive, Social and Organizational Psychology, ULL)

External medical collaborators

  • Julien Dampuré
  • Maartje van der Meij

Lines of research

  • Language processing
  • Visual perception in reading
  • Executive functions in Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Stress and performance

Funded projects

  • Parafoveal word perception: neuromodulation by neurofeedback (PID2020-118487GB-I00). MICINN. PI: Horacio Barber and Juan A. Hdez. Cabrera (01/09/2021 – 31/08/2024, €72,600)

Publications 2023

  • Dampuré J, Agudelo-Orjuela P, van der Meij M, Belin D, Barber HA. Electrophysiological signature of the interplay between habits and inhibition in response to smoking-related cues in individuals with a smoking habit: An event-related potential study. European Journal of Neuroscience. 2023 Apr;57(8):1335-1352. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15942
  • Milligan S, Antúnez M, Barber HA, Schotter ER. Are Eye Movements and EEG on the Same Page?: A Coregistration Study on Parafoveal Preview and Lexical Frequency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2023 Jan;152(1):188-210. DOI: 10.1037/xge0001278

Other representative publications from recent years

  • Schauenburg G, Conrad M, von Scheve C, Barber HA, Ambrasat J, Aryani A, Schröder T. Making sense of social interaction: Emotional coherence drives semantic integration as assessed by event-related potentials. Neuropsychology. 2019 Mar;125:1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.01.002
  • Dampuré J, López-Pérez PJ, Barber HA. Meaning-based attentional guidance as a function of foveal and task-related cognitive loads. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 2019 Jan;34(1):1-12. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1484149
  • Carreiras M, Quiñones I, Mancini S, Hernández-Cabrera JA, Barber HA. Verbal and nominal agreement: an fMRI study. Neuroimaging. 2015 Oct; 120:88-103. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.075
  • Janssen N, Hernández JA, Van der Meij M, Barber HA. Tracking the time course of competition during word production: Evidence for a post-retrieval mechanism of conflict resolution. Cerebral Cortex. 2015 Sep;25(9):2960-9. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu092