June-2025 / NeCog-UAM celebrated the 16th Edition of NeuroBeers! Do videogames benefit the brain? with Diego Redolar
March-2025 / NeCog-UAM celebrated the 15th Edition of NeuroBeers! Where does it hurt? with Maite Carrillo
14-Feb-2025 / NeCog-UAM commemorates the Week of Women and Girls in Science! Dr. Almudena Capilla visited IES Valmayor school, giving a talk on brain imaging techniques and sparking a discussion on whether neuroimaging could read minds in the future and the need for laws to regulate neuro-rights. What do you think?
Oct-2024 / NeCog-UAM joined to the celebration of the 14th Edition of NeuroBeers! Synesthesia and somatomotor integration Helena Melero
Jun-2024 / The 13th Edition of NeuroBeers was a success! A brain to move between the senses Juan de los Reyes Aguilar
Mar-2024 / NeCog-UAM celebrated the 12th Edition of NeuroBeers! Brain and exercise José Luis Trejo
Mar-2024 / Did you play with your mind at our stand during the XIII Madrid es Ciencia Fair? We had lots of fun training your «mental powers» to move a cube. If you missed it, you should definitely save the date for next March!
11-Feb-2024 / NeCog-UAM commemorates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Dr. Almudena Capilla visited IES Valmayor school to show the students neuroimage techniques and recent advances in neuroscience, leaving an open debate: Will mind-reading be possible in the near future?
Nov-2023 / NeCog-UAM celebrated the 11th Edition of NeuroBeers! Do you sleep well? Mercedes Atienza
Sept-2023 / NeCog-UAM shows how the brain works in the European Night of Researchers, with the Fine Arts Circle, Madrid
Jun-2023 / Congratulations NeuroBeers for your 10th Edition!!! Thank you Patricia Sampedro for delight us with your presentation Binge drinking: impact on our brain
Apr-2023 / NeCog-UAM joined to the 9th Edition of NeuroBeers! Why does our brain loves music? Josep Marco Pallarés
Mar-2023 / NeCog-UAM celebrates the XII Fair of Madrid es Ciencia, showing how it is to be a brain electrician for one day!
January 12th opens the date for applying to FPI grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science (Predoctoral Research Contracts). Deadline is on January 26th, 14h.
NeCog-UAM is offering an FPI position for the project The natural frequencies of the human brain: network connectivity, dependence on cognitive state, and waveform features. Previous experience in acquisition and analysis of magneto/electroencephalographic data, knowledge of multivariate analysis and programming skills would be highly appreciated.
All information about the application process can be found here.
For additional information about our research group or project, you can contact to almudena.capilla@uam.es
Nov-2022 / NeuroBeers celebrated the Week of Science and Innovation!!
Artificial Intelligence: from the rebellion of the machines to the study of the human brain with Juan Eloy Arco
Sept-2022 / The 7th Edition of NeuroBeers
Does the brain feel or does the heart think? The neurophysiological basis of our emotional experience with Alejandro de la Torre
Jul-2022 / Atención y distracción: dos caras de la misma moneda. Based on our paper: Arana, L., Melcón, M., Kessel, D., Hoyos, S., Albert, J., Carretié, L., & Capilla, A. (2022). Suppression of alpha‐band power underlies exogenous attention to emotional distractors. Psychophysiology, e14051.
Jun-2022 / After a long break… NeuroBeers is back!!
Bodies and tools: a natural history of the human brain with Emiliano Bruner
Sept-2020 / Based on our recently published paper: Alzueta, E., Melcón, M., Jensen, O., & Capilla, A. (2020). The ‘Narcissus Effect’: Top-down alpha-beta band modulation of face-related brain areas during self-face processing. NeuroImage, 116754.
Dec-2018 / Interesting talk:
El sendero de la neurociencia on December 12th at 6:00 pm, salón de actos del CSIC (Serrano, 117, Madrid). Also in streaming.
Sept-2018 / In La Noche Europea de los Investigadores we tested the memory and attention of our audience. A lot of children came to our stand to know more about how the brain works, and to see their brain waves with EEG.
Jul-2018 / The 3rd Edition of NeuroBeers on July 5th was a success.
Javier González-Rosa explained to us the basis of brain stimulation…
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Feb-2018 / Ediciones UAM has just published: Psychtoolbox. A brief guide to start programming experiments in Psychology,
by María Hernández-Lorca and Almudena Capilla
Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencia Cognitiva 