Institute of Biomedical Technologies

Brain imaging laboratory

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Niels Janssen, PhD

Contracted Lecturer, Doctor of Basic Psychology, Department of Cognitive, Social and Organisational Psychology, ULL

PHD STUDENTS AND TRAINEES:

  • Laura María Ezama Foronda (Doctorate Program in Health Sciences, ULL. FPI Agencia The Canary Islands Agency of Research, Innovation and Information Sciences, ACIISI)
  • Sara Lozano Seoane (Doctorate Program in Health Sciences, ULL. FPI The Canary Islands Agency of Research, Innovation and Information Sciences, ACIISI)
  • Judith Dominguez Pérez (Collaboration Scholarship, MECD programme)

RESEARCH LINES:

We work on developing new neuroscience data analysis tools and their applications in brain research, both in healthy states and pathological conditions. We use computational and experimental approaches to analyse Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Electroencephalography (EEG) data.

FUNDED PROJECTS:

  • Dynamics of whole-brain fMRI activity: A new analytic technique (PSI2017-91955-EXP). PI: Niels Janssen. MINECO (2018-2019, 36,300 €).
  • Hippocampal substructures in aging and pathology: a high resolution MRI study (PSI2017-84933). PI: Niels Janssen. MINECO (2018-2021, 96,800 €).

PUBLICATIONS 2019:

  • Janssen N, Mendieta CCR. The Dynamics of Speech Motor Control Revealed with Time-Resolved fMRI. Cereb Cortex. 2019 May 9. pii: bhz084. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz084. [Epub ahead of print]

OTHER SELECTED PUBLICATIONS FROM THE LAST 10 YEARS:

  • Kho KH, Janssen N. Intermanual transfer in an artist with Parkinson’s disease. 2016;22(1):119-21. doi: 10.1080/13554794.2015.1053492
  • Janssen N, Hernandez 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. Cereb Cortex. 2015 Sep;25(9):2960-9. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu092
  • Janssen N, Pajtas PE, Caramazza A. Task influences on the production and comprehension of compounds words. Mem Cognit. 2014;42(5):780-93. doi: 10.3758/s13421-014-0396-z
  • Janssen N,Hernández-Cabrera JA,Foronda LE.Improving the signal detection accuracy of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2018 Aug 1;176:92-109. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.076
  • Caffarra S, Janssen N, Barber HA. Two sides of gender: ERP evidence for the presence of two routes during gender agreement processing. Neuropsychologia. 2014;63:124-34. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.016
  • Ries S, Janssen N, Burle B, Alario FX. Response-locked brain dynamics of word production. PloS One. 2013;8(3):e58197. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0058197